Schizzie on a Stick (D. "Andromeda")

[dvg]

Received this D. "Andromeda" as a bonus in a recent CP order. ( Thanks Cole! )



This plant is a cross between D. schizandra and D. prolifera.

There are a few different variations available from this crossing, with some looking more like the mother and others, taking on more of the father's traits.

This one (turns out there are actually six separate plants in that clump) starts out looking like D.prolifera when immature, with longer petioles, but does show some of the characteristic schizandra ridges on the leaves.

In time, the leaves grow out to about six inches in length, three inches in width, looking very much like a large schizandra plant with more elongated leaves...

...with a lamina to petiole ratio of 3:1.

And these are supposed to get very dewy.




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[shoggoths]

Nice, always wanted to get one but I have difficulties keeping the Sisters so I'm waiting to get the right conditions.

[dvg]

These plants show up with a lot of hybrid vigor - bigger, faster and more forgiving of conditions, from the reading i've done on them.

They responded very well to repotting and then being pulled up and repotted again...very resilient!

Have mine in the basement, under a dome, temp 20°c day/15°c night.

Media - 1:1 peat:perlite with a bit of lfs on the surface.

Maybe bonfield will chime in with his growing conditions for these.




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[bonfield]

They're being grown pretty much the same way you're growing them, but they don't seem to be picky, they even do well at the local reptile store where you can imagine just how high the temperatures get.

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Dropped a nice sized plump insect onto this leaf...



It was like placing pulled pork onto a pita bread...

...a day later it had rolled up like a scroll.




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[dvg]

Noticed that four of the six divisions are sending up flower stalks.

The flowers are sterile so they will probably be nipped in the bud, to keep the energy with the plant's rosette.

This is one of the plants growing in a 3" pot.



And close up of one of its leaves.











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[dvg]

That clump shown in the first post in this thread was split up with five of the smaller plants going into 3" pots and the largest one of the bunch was potted up into the original 4" pot.

Here they all are inside an 11 and 5/8 inch tray, from earlier today.



These have grown along quite well since late June.



This is one of the larger ones in the 3" pots, with the stalk from its snipped flower, still visible.



And the plant in the 4" pot.








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[labine]

Great looking plants there dvg

[dvg]

Another update on these, with a small visiting D. schizandra in with three larger "Andromeda" clones.



And the three, sans schizandra.



This one used to be the smallest of the group, but it has stretched out in size and in number, to at least two.



This is one of the largest clones in the 3" pots, and might be getting repotted up into a larger pot soon.



This clone in the 4" pot, has the widest leaves, but they haven't stretched out in length to the degree, that the clones in the 3" pots have reached.















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[bonfield]

A friend was asking about these so I took a pic of a couple trays, it looks like I have a bit of tidying up to do in one of them.

[dvg]

Your plants are looking good there Cole!

Here is how this group was looking last week.

It was -5c outside when this pic was taken out in the snow, a bit chilly for them, but it was sunny.



And the plants were fine afterwards, with such a short exposure to the cold.








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[gj]

I did an impromptu leaf "cutting" (water propagation) with a leaf off of a D. "Andromeda" I got from Cole when the leaf declared its independence while I was unwrapping it from shipping. It looked like the leaf was an older one, so I wasn't sure if it was going to work or not. Apparently it was more resilient than I gave it credit for as a month plus a few days later I discovered two nubs sticking up from two different points on the leaf. I cut the leaf between the two growth points and set them on some moss in a small container that is sitting in just a thin layer of water, and covered to keep humidity up. I think, in my excitement, I might have moved them a little prematurely, but it has been ten days since I moved them to the moss, and both seem to be forgiving me with their first open leaves.

Here's one of them:

[dvg]

Congrats with the strikes Gary!

What part of the leaf is that strike growing out from?

From your photo, it appears to be coming out from the trap portion of the leaf pull.










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[gj]

Thanks DVG!

Yes that strike popped up from trap part of the leaf, right near the edge. The other one, which I haven't taken any pictures of, sprung up right from the middle of the leaf.

I hope I can keep them happy, as I'm really looking forward to watching them develop.

[dvg]

GJ, I'd forgotten how well some dews propagate from leaf pulls.

Mexi-pings strike from their leaf bases, and am observing now with my U. quelchii that it is able to strike from its "leaf" tips.

But bladderworts seem to be able to propagate from almost any part of their plant structure.









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