Great photos DVG! I agree they do look like some alien squidy octopus thingy as they emerge ;>
Haha, they do look squiddish...here's one of the seedlings with an arm free.
Look forward to seeing how they do for you. Any info on how you are growing them? lighting, pot size, mix etc etc?
I see alot of sand or is that a top layer for where the seed are germinating?
I have been following your seedling success with this species, and have tried to follow, to a certain degree, what you have been doing with your recent
Drosophyllum seedling starts.
The lighting being used is a 2 tube 4' T8 shoplight that's a few inches above them.
Once i can determine how many seedlings will survive this first attempt with them, i'll give them more intense light.
They are presently in 3" peat or coir pots, with a few extra holes drilled in the bottoms and sides of the pots for an easier pot breakdown once the successful seedlings are potted up, still in their present pots, into a larger terra cotta pot.
I tried to emulate you media mix by using chunky perlite, akadama soil, kanuma, lava rock, coarse silica sand, pumice and a tiny bit of peat.
Then i chose to use a top layer of quartz sand to fill in the gaps of the chunky mix, so the seeds wouldn't slip between the cracks, but i do find that the sandy top layer does dry out quite quickly, so i have to check in on it a couple of times per day in this early going.
Nice Job
What's your germination procedure? How long did they take to germinate?
Hi Richjam,
The fat end of the seeds were scarified with a file and then the seeds were soaked for a few days until most of them no longer floated.
Seeds were then sown in a mix that resembled their own current mix with a top layer of quartz sand.
The night time lows for the propagation container was around 10C, and the daytime highs were from 20 to 24C
Germination took about 3 weeks.
dvg