wuts up with this plant? it seems no one has it! i regret not buying one from peter damato at the bacps meeting last year lol. Now that plant is on my most wanted list! i was able to track down D.hamiltonii and the others i wanted but slackii and cunefolia is so hard to get! Does anyone noe where to get a slackii or cunefolias?
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D.slackii
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Hi Zach,
The reason nobody has this plant is because it is relatively new to cultivation and a lot of people don't want to "ruin" their plant by taking leaf cuttings to propogate it. I have d. cunefolia seeds, I'm trying to germinate them in tc right now. If things turn out well, this and many other rarer droseras will be more common pretty soon. Tc rules!!!
Noah
The reason nobody has this plant is because it is relatively new to cultivation and a lot of people don't want to "ruin" their plant by taking leaf cuttings to propogate it. I have d. cunefolia seeds, I'm trying to germinate them in tc right now. If things turn out well, this and many other rarer droseras will be more common pretty soon. Tc rules!!!
Noah
Hi Martin,
Slakii is not new to cultivation, but it hasn't been around for that long either. It was discovered 1980, named '87, and only some collections have it.
Tc does rule, without n. bicalcarata would still cost 贄, and it would take thirty years for a new plant to hit the market. Besides, tc can be used without actually producing clones. For example, one could throw a bunch of drosera seed in and get mature plants in only a few months. I agree there are downsides, for example small genetic fields, etc. but tc isn't all bad either. For example, I'm hoping to have some mature d. graomogolensises in a few months... thanks in part to tc.
Noah
Slakii is not new to cultivation, but it hasn't been around for that long either. It was discovered 1980, named '87, and only some collections have it.
Tc does rule, without n. bicalcarata would still cost 贄, and it would take thirty years for a new plant to hit the market. Besides, tc can be used without actually producing clones. For example, one could throw a bunch of drosera seed in and get mature plants in only a few months. I agree there are downsides, for example small genetic fields, etc. but tc isn't all bad either. For example, I'm hoping to have some mature d. graomogolensises in a few months... thanks in part to tc.
Noah
TC is a practical thing. If not for tissue culturing, the millions of Venus Flytraps wouldn't be produced that get many people, including me, interested in cp. If we only produced flytraps with 'natural' methods, people would turn to field collecting flytraps to satisfy their interest in them(ironic). The same is true with other carnivores. TC is the only way to satisfy a lot of growers, quickly. Noah, it's cool that you want to make rare plants available to growers like me, because I'm not interested in TC, but I realize it's huge importance in horticulture. I'm not trying to 'slam' you, Martin.
Chris
Chris
Hi gardenofeden,
Would you be able to post me some seeds/plants? I would love to get those in tc as well, they are almost imposible to find in the US. That way I can redistribute them here so more people have a chance to grow these.
Noah
P.S. I have things (d. seed, some rare) I could trade in return if you want.
Would you be able to post me some seeds/plants? I would love to get those in tc as well, they are almost imposible to find in the US. That way I can redistribute them here so more people have a chance to grow these.
Noah
P.S. I have things (d. seed, some rare) I could trade in return if you want.
Noah,
Keep up the good work with the TC. I think the hardest thing is to acclimate TC produced species to the "real world". Did you successfuly introduce graomogolensis to TC? That is great news if you did (and put me on your donations list, this is a plant I need for study, and it eludes me still.
Keep up the good work with the TC. I think the hardest thing is to acclimate TC produced species to the "real world". Did you successfuly introduce graomogolensis to TC? That is great news if you did (and put me on your donations list, this is a plant I need for study, and it eludes me still.
Gardenofeden, What do you grow your Slackii in? I have tried growing this species before but haven't had much luck with it. I grew mine in a typical peat/sand mixture. It just seems to get weaker each year. I read somewhere that it is hard to establish in peat mixes. Do you grow yours in a sphagnum mix perhaps
I should've just bought one when I had the chance. Ceph, they also substituted perlite for sand? I haven't had much success with perlite in too many Drosera mixes(excepy for the dilatato-petiolaris I'm germinating). A mix of sphagnum and perlite must be very 'airy', which must be the purpose of the perlite. PFT, it would be awesome if you ever offered slackii, if you managed to obtain any, and if you warned growers about its moderate difficulty(so I hear).
Chris
Chris
yea, its kinda wierd using perlite but i guess slackii likes airry roots. U noe something, imma call up CaliforniaCarnivores and ask em to bring a D.slackii for me to the BACPS meeting in feb2
so i can buy the darn thing and put all wantings of it behinnD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Well ,if they got one of course..lol.
