Cobra Lily Offshoots

[jimscott]

This:



...is now this:

 

[Bio]

Huh, I've never seen Darlingtonia's famed 'stolons' before. They look really cool.

Good growing to get them that far.

 

[divaskid]

Cool!

 

[Plant Planter]

Lucky you! It's not every person who can even grow Darlingtonia, much less do what you have! I know I sure couldn't.

 

[PsychoSarah]

Sadly cobra lilies are just too sensitive to certain conditions for me to grow them.

 

[jimscott]

You wouldn't know it, but I was a laughingstock on this forum for all my failed experiments with this species. Strangely, although it had a 'proper dormancy', it didn't flower. First pitcher of the season looks gnaryly, now, but here's what it looked like a couple months ago:

 

[PsychoSarah]

I try not to bite off more than I can chew when it comes to plants. Which is why I always ask around about them before I get them, that way I don't end up with plants I can't care for.

 

[jimscott]

I try not to bite off more than I can chew when it comes to plants. Which is why I always ask around about them before I get them, that way I don't end up with plants I can't care for.

From the Reader's digest Quotable Quotes: "Hindsight is 20-20... the rest is legally blind." I overcame my cobra lily woes. Same with a few other challenging species. OTOH, I don't have Nepenthes anymore, or tuberous sundews or Helis.

 

[pebes]

whats your medium? looks ultra sandy.

 

[theplantman]

Drainage + good nutrition + adequate light = stolons

 

[jimscott]

Sand, peat, and LFS

 

[jimscott]

Drainage + good nutrition + adequate light = stolons

That too!