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Death of a typical: well...will regenerate though

vraev

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Hey there fellas',

well....Remember my VFTs were struggling for some reason...the big ones. I noticed that the typicals growth point in the center was just rotting from inside out. I was like...hmm....I should take a cutting from the outer leaf. I was then poking around the soil and noticed that teh soil was really COMPACTED....it was very very tightly packed.

So I thought I might as welll take it out..and then I unpotted it. Also reason being is a offshoot which I wanted to keep as an insurance policy if the big ones doesn't make it through dormancy.

well....what do u know...the first time I am seeing a fungus on a VFT corm. Look at that

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Well...basically since the past hour, I was chopping it up into pieces salvaging the corm. Well...I didn't want to use the same media...so I am actually trying an experiment.....what happens if I use a bark based media?? its the same thing i used for my ceph. maybe with more peat moss though. I am confident the small offshoots will take.

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So there u go...the pot with new media...and body parts of my old typical.

I also want to try VFT growing in pure living sphagnum....so here is the chance.

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Sphagnum magellanicum and Sphagnum rubellum half and half to compare growth rates.

BTW...I have a runaway. ;D

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it looks like one of the bog plants. I don't know what it is though. Interesting one. :D

Well...its actually a shame to tear this one apart. The corm was like a big golf ball sized. :( Unfortunate that my large vft's are going down. :(

But well..if all of these take....I will not need typical vft's for a long long time :p ;) considering that many of the cuttings give more than 100% strike rate.

cheers,

vraev
 
I keep my vft media very dry so that the top of the media is dry looking. They seem to like it :D
Thus no rot and also keep the growing point(s) above the media
 
but as you can see...the growth point burrows in really very very deep. It was like 3 inches down in a six inch pot. :(
 
Where's the fungus on the rhizome? I can't see any ???
 
first and second pic....see the BLACK part with white powdery stuff on it?? thats all fungus mate.
 
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