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Post by dvg on Aug 1, 2019 16:07:26 GMT -5
This bladderwort, with its hybrid vigor, is a real beast.
Its stolons can stretch out clear across a standard 1020 tray and in lower light conditions, its leaves can get as large across as a man's hand.
Leaves of this clone also exhibit the same superhydrophobic qualities of U. reniformis and especially so if grown outside of a humidity dome, in regular room air.
dvg
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Post by shoggoths on Aug 2, 2019 11:06:46 GMT -5
Hey Dvg,
Did you successgully got it to bloom.
Mine is only sending tons of stolon, no flower even with my annual light variation.
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Post by dvg on Aug 2, 2019 17:09:30 GMT -5
Hi Shoggoths,
This plant is a fairly recent acquisition, so haven't had a chance to figure out what triggers its flowering cycle yet.
dvg
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Post by bonfield on Aug 2, 2019 18:50:45 GMT -5
Hi Martin,
I had it flowering a few years ago when I was paying more attention to it, now it gets kind of ignored since every time I take off the dome for that tray, I have to spend a few minutes after tucking everything back under. It was in the crawlspace set-up(coolest temperatures in the house) when it last flowered, and the container was fairly established, what are your current temps, and how colonized is the container?
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Post by shoggoths on Aug 13, 2019 9:41:32 GMT -5
Sorry for the late answer Cole. Summer time I grow it in a fish tank. The area is really crowded and like you do, I have to push all the stolon in after I remove the covering glass. It is on my basement floor so coolest spot I can give it. I think I don't give it enough light. My Roridula is actually blooming but the flowers don't fully open. The same thing was happening with Byblis, I had to bring it outside for the flowers to fully open.
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Post by bonfield on Aug 31, 2019 19:30:25 GMT -5
Lol, it happens. It could probably use a bit more light, but I'd have to see a pic to be sure. Also, is it being fed regularly?
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Post by dvg on Sept 4, 2019 19:08:32 GMT -5
Lol, it happens. It could probably use a bit more light, but I'd have to see a pic to be sure. Also, is it being fed regularly? Cole, with this plant having those superhydophobic leaves that readily repel water, do you still attempt to foliar feed this one with a fine mist of orchid fertilizer? dvg
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Post by bonfield on Sept 4, 2019 19:15:21 GMT -5
With Utrics and their usual extensive subterranean growth, I typically apply the fertilizer more to the substrate.
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Post by dvg on Dec 3, 2019 22:41:43 GMT -5
Had been growing this plant under a 7" high humidity dome, but found that the upper growth would push up against the dome's ceiling, and then coil itself around inside the dome. This cone shaped leaf stolon formed inside the dome. It had two slits built right into it that served the purpose of draining water away from the leaf surface, letting light in to the growth below and allowing air flow between the upper and lower leaf surfaces. Or maybe, i'm overthinking this and it is just a deformed leaf stolon. Anyway, it is no longer under the dome, instead being housed in a taller glass enclosure, allowing the photosynthetic stolons to rise straight up, without the restrictions of the shorter headspace of the dome's enclosure. dvg
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Post by dvg on Apr 9, 2020 14:51:11 GMT -5
I've grown very fond of this vigorous beast since receiving it last year. It sends out exploratory adventitious stolons that can be used to propagate itself, wherever it can reach to, elsewhere, and it has a long reach. Sensors in the tendril tips, draw these stolons toward moisture. Once these tendrils hit the water dish, they begin to make a lot of bladder-traps. I let one grow in the water dish for about 5 inches, where it made a lot of traps and eventually sent up a long leaf stolon. Once the leaf stolon had fully unfurled, I snipped the original stolon at soil level, and harvested the whole dang she-bang: stolon, traps, leafy stalk and all, and potted them up in a shallow four inch pot on February 29, 2020. The first growth coming from it now is a sturdy little flower stalk, now over an inch high. dvg
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Post by dvg on Apr 16, 2020 10:02:06 GMT -5
This is the aquatic growth that occurs once the stolons reach the water dish. This adventitious stolon, later sent up a leaf/photosynthetic stolon, was harvested and potted up into a pot of its own, and is now sending up a flower stalk. And good sized traps on this hybrid too. dvg
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Post by dvg on Apr 20, 2020 11:49:30 GMT -5
This is the plant material, now potted up, that resulted from the trap-laden stolon in the prior pic, here in this thread. The traps, as well as the stolon, were placed on the media surface, and circled around the pot's inner perimeter. Then live Sphagnum moss was placed over some of the traps and stolon sections, while leaving some traps and stolon sections openly exposed to light and air. The first active growth to emerge after the repotting, was this flower stalk. The mother pot hasn't flowered yet, but a stolon propagation, once in a fresh pot (potted up on February 29), decides to push up a flower as its first order of business - yeah, go figure. dvg
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Post by dvg on May 5, 2020 10:44:58 GMT -5
Another update on this plant and its developing flower stalk. This plant has added a new leaf stolon to the furnishings of its new pad. A closer peek. dvg
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Post by dvg on May 12, 2020 11:23:40 GMT -5
Another update on this flower stalk, from a windy day. Turning the other cheek... It's hard to fathom how the small leaf stolon can provide the energy to power this flower stalk. The original leaf stolon has browned and faded, yet the stalk keeps progressing towards flowering. dvg
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Post by dvg on May 27, 2020 1:32:55 GMT -5
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