Akai Ryu from Flower Scape Cutting

[Shadowtski]

Today I potted up a baby VFT "Akai Ryu".

I bought the parent plant from FlyTrapShop.com. It arrived on May 3rd. It started to send up a flower scape soon after it arrived. I cut the scape and tossed it in some live sphagnum on May 28th. On July 23rd, I saw several growth buds appear. Today it is sending down roots and the leaves are about a half inch long. This was my first attempt at VFT scape propagation. It has taken 3 months from start to finish. It was a fun and rewarding little project.

I plan to donate this little guy to the NASC auction next year. Hopefully he will grow to a respectable size by then.

Good growing,
Mike

 

[adnedarn]

How is the cutting doing?

 

[Shadowtski]

How is the cutting doing?

It's doing great!
It's dormant right now but still looking very healthy. The leaves didn't turn black, just stopped growing.
Here are a few pictures taken this morning 01/01/2017.
I don't know if it will be large enough to donate for the 2017 NASC Auction. If not, there is always next year.

What do you think?

Good growing,
Mike

 

[adnedarn]

Looks good! See what it looks like come April and go from there

 

[Shadowtski]

Here are some update photos of my Akai Ryu (which I grew from a scape cutting) baby and its parent plant. The parent is coming out of dormancy nicely. It's bigger than last year and sending up two flower scapes. I cut these to grow more baby plants.

But I think that the baby plant is too small to donate to this year's NASC auction. I can't imagine anyone bidding more than a dollar for it. So I'll let it grow another year and donate it to next year's auction.

But this project showed me that flower stalk cutting is a good way to propagate your named cultivars without disturbing them.

Thanks for looking.

Good growing,
Mike

3/17/2017

New traps and 2 scapes on parent plant

Added Quarter to show size and cut off scapes for more propagating fun