Recent content by Joseph Clemens

Thanks for the additional cultural details. BTW, none of the media ingredients I use or recommend are anything other than 100% mineral, other than those I suggest as amendments to the media, such as dilute fertilizer solutions, dried insect powder, or Trichoderma harzianum inoculant. My...

This species is actually called, Pinguicula jaumavensis. I too, once misspelled this name.

Nice plants, though I think you mean, Pinguicula grandiflora.

You give a very minimal description of your growing conditions. Saying nothing about light levels or photoperiod, temperatures, humidity, etc. If you're not providing lots of strong PAR light, your lack of supplemental nutrients is appropriate, because with lots of water/moisture, and low light...

BTW, the name is actually, P. 'Weser'. It is one of the first registered cultivars in the genus. If you're giving it the conditions you describe, you may need to start feeding it, too. They do well with a little spritz of dilute soluble balanced fertilizer solution, sprayed on their leaves...

Pinguicula macrophylla has done well for me in my usual semi-aquatic, under fluorescent light conditions, see my 2005 thread, and my 2009 thread. I had let the image links get out-of-date (I relocated the images, but hadn't yet updated these links). I initially grew them in my more usual...

Sounds like an interesting and progressive plan. I look forward to hearing of your success.

What you said here, reminds me of my experience with placing some Mexican Pinguicula into a tropical greenhouse at a nearby arid plants nursery. The greenhouse is used for plants, other than arid types, including several varieties of Mexican Pinguicula, which I provided. They water by hand, and...

I have tried it with dried/powdered shrimp shells, though not extensively or for an extended period of time. I was concerned that the shrimp shells might contain damaging amounts of sodium, but I soaked mine in D.I. water, several times, and even after they had been powdered, so they were rinsed...

Growing this group of Pinguicula, outside, should depend mostly on your ability to approximate their natural environment, or improve on it. I've often considered trying to do as you mention, but it seems much easier for me to grow them indoors, under lights, for now. A local nursery, here in...

I have often considered such a setup for growing these plants, but never got around to it. Yours seems very practical and is obviously very functional, too. Would you be willing to provide the details of the main components, the pump and power source?

None of the Mexican/equatorial Pinguicula go "dormant". Some of them simply have a growth phase where they produce smaller, more succulent leaves, even those that hide underground are still growing, and even blooming. This heterophyllous growth form has sometimes been mistakenly called...

Anyway, hcarlton, it is good to see someone else interested in Byblis. They don't seem to be as common in CP collections as they once were. I enjoy viewing your photos of them. I once brought a non-CP Solanum pyracanthum plant into my CP grow room. At the time I was not aware that it was...

Now, back, closer to the subject: So far I've only ever grown Byblis liniflora, and I began with those seed I received from W.I.P. back in the 1970's. But I learned to keep them going, not as annuals, but virtually indefinitely, By tip trimming, then potting and rooting those tip cuttings. The...

Dead on arrival. It was about a half dozen small, but live plants. They had rotted away to nearly nothing. I had to examine their pot with a magnifying glass, to even discern their remains. In the same shipment were several Drosera and Sarracenia seedlings. The only plants that were damaged, at...