Recent content by J.Gennaro

I use an all mineral mix for my Mexican Pinguicula because I have found that the fungus gnat larvae which come with peat moss will happily munch on delicate ping roots. There are a lot of different options when it comes to soil components. When I was trying to formulate which mixture I would I...

Hi Paul! Unfortunately I did not keep the specific storage dates for each specific seed lot. I was planning on doing so in the beginning of the project; but what I found as I sorted all the seeds was that for nearly every species of seed I had, there were usually two or three multiples with...

I had some time this morning to take pictures of the germination progress! Some have a much higher germination rate than others so far... Will have lots of burmannii! Other species only have a few seeds that have germinated Lastly, there were a few packets of seeds that had no ID, so I put...

The first (of hopefully many) seeds germinated!

The seeds were collected between 1993-1999.

First signs of life!

Just found out about this thread! Here is my D. roseana in bloom!

They have been under a constant light cycle, 16 hours a day. Right now I am making some changes to my setup and I might move them to a different shelf where they would get a two months of lower light in the winter (next to my Mexican pings and Cephs). And there are actually two different hamata...

Update! Cephalotus "Vigorous Clumping" N. "Triffid" [(kampotiana x maxima) x dubia] N. "Dormouse" [(ventricosa x bellii) x dubia] N. "Poi Dog" (maxima poi x fusca poi) N. Tiveyi "Red Queen" N. [ventricosa x (thorelii x aristolochioides)] N. [(lowii x veitchii) x burbidgeae] EP Thank you Paul!

I noticed that my D. roseana was in bloom, and wanted to share its tiny cuteness with everyone!

I know that I will probably have a great germination rate from other people's accounts, but I still thought it would be fun to share this project with everyone! It is fascinating to think about how these plants will be as old as my sister once I get them germinated!

Thank you dvg, I am very excited to see all the variation with this complex hybrid! Here's a clear pic of the swollen ovary:

In addition to my Ancient Drosera Seed Project, I also acquired ~70 Drosophyllum seeds, dated 1996! Several people have told me that they have actually had higher germination rates with older Drosophyllum seed over freshly harvested seed. I guess we will just have to wait and see... That being...

I did find this link that states that someone tried to cross pollinate Aphrodite could not get seeds to be produced. It looks like I have seed on the way, let's hope that they are viable! International Carnivorous Plant Society

I have not, but I have space reserved for the seeds in my Drosera seed germination setup.