Hi all it's been a while. Snow is still here in Canada. LOL Although I can feel spring is hear, it was up to 9 C today. I even collected some water off of the eave.
Some of you may remember I ordered some traps form across the boarder last summer. They spent a month in the mail, needless to say some didn't fair so well.
I was looking after the herd today (kids) 1x2year girl 2x6month boys (yes 2 LOL) and had the repotting itch.
I repotted a few of the bigger ones in (the cut off top flip and put inside bottom pop bottle teck). The smaller ones I just repotted in the same. I have been using a small plastic clear cup (with holes) inside of a larger clear cup. It seems to work well.
The one big mouth I ordered was quite a small bulb and all the leaves and roots were rotted off. Since I have had it, it has grown but has not gotten very big (vertically). I wasn’t expecting it to get huge right away. But the low giant was in the same shape and dwarfs it. The big mouth has formed many small traps. I mean like 50 or so that covered about the size a little bigger than a quarter or our dollar. When I repotted it I noticed that it had formed about 10 new small bulbs around the old one. Most of them were not even connected any more. I separated it into 10 and repotted them. They looked crowded the way they were. Hopefully they will get larger rather than divide now.
My question is, is this a big mouth trait (clumping)?
Maybe the original bulb was stressed enough that it was working at saving it self by dividing so much?
Maybe it has some hormones left from the tissue culture?
I am happy that I will have some trading material this summer so keep me in mind.
Thanks Stephen
Some of you may remember I ordered some traps form across the boarder last summer. They spent a month in the mail, needless to say some didn't fair so well.
I was looking after the herd today (kids) 1x2year girl 2x6month boys (yes 2 LOL) and had the repotting itch.
I repotted a few of the bigger ones in (the cut off top flip and put inside bottom pop bottle teck). The smaller ones I just repotted in the same. I have been using a small plastic clear cup (with holes) inside of a larger clear cup. It seems to work well.
The one big mouth I ordered was quite a small bulb and all the leaves and roots were rotted off. Since I have had it, it has grown but has not gotten very big (vertically). I wasn’t expecting it to get huge right away. But the low giant was in the same shape and dwarfs it. The big mouth has formed many small traps. I mean like 50 or so that covered about the size a little bigger than a quarter or our dollar. When I repotted it I noticed that it had formed about 10 new small bulbs around the old one. Most of them were not even connected any more. I separated it into 10 and repotted them. They looked crowded the way they were. Hopefully they will get larger rather than divide now.
My question is, is this a big mouth trait (clumping)?
Maybe the original bulb was stressed enough that it was working at saving it self by dividing so much?
Maybe it has some hormones left from the tissue culture?
I am happy that I will have some trading material this summer so keep me in mind.
Thanks Stephen