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Flowering Ping

Everything is soo beautiful!! I'm totally jealous i wish i had more pings for study! They really are spectacular and have beautiful flowers! Great job hun maybe you'll draw some of these for your artistic renditions it would be nice to see u draw some of ur pings in flower!!
 
Several of these guys heading into dormancy, but a month ago they looked decent
P. sp. Yucca do 1717 by Hawken Carlton, on Flickr
P. sp. Yucca do 1717 by Hawken Carlton, on Flickr
P. gigantea divided into several growth points
P. gigantea by Hawken Carlton, on Flickr
P. rotundiflora x hemiepiphytica by Hawken Carlton, on Flickr
P. 'Aphrodite' by Hawken Carlton, on Flickr
New arrivals doing well!
P. esseriana by Hawken Carlton, on Flickr
This guy was doing well up until a repot; now only a single plantlet looks decent and survival of the others is probably likely but they look awful. Same situation with my P. caerulea and the primul white flower. the biggest 'Rose' plant in the Nepenthes pot is still fine though, go figure...
P. primuliflora "typical" by Hawken Carlton, on Flickr
 
Dormant mode...
P. 'Pirouette' by Hawken Carlton, on Flickr
P. moranensis 'Huahuapan' by Hawken Carlton, on Flickr
These guys are flowering...
P. esseriana by Hawken Carlton, on Flickr
P. esseriana by Hawken Carlton, on Flickr
And I love how hairy this one is
P. sp. Yucca do 1717 by Hawken Carlton, on Flickr
P. ehlersiae albiflora by Hawken Carlton, on Flickr
P. moranensis x ehlersiae by Hawken Carlton, on Flickr
And in another part of the house, the first lusitanica flower in well over a year...
P. lusitanica by Hawken Carlton, on Flickr
P. lusitanica by Hawken Carlton, on Flickr
 
Hey hcarlton,

Your P. esseriana seems to be in a mix of perlite and Turface. However those Turface pieces are huge! What type is it, MVP, something else?

Thanks!
 
Whatever they're in, it's only that, not a mix or top-dressed like most of the other pots. And if it's turface, I wouldn't have a clue as they came with a small bag of it for planting from the source; I didn't buy it myself.
Also, the pieces are not that big; it's only a 2" pot, if that, and the species is a really small one when dormant.
 
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Crossed this:
P. esseriana by Hawken Carlton, on Flickr
And this:
P. moranensis 'Huahuapan' by Hawken Carlton, on Flickr
With this:
P. sp. Yucca do 1717 by Hawken Carlton, on Flickr
P. sp. Yucca do 1717 by Hawken Carlton, on Flickr
P. sp. Yucca do 1717 by Hawken Carlton, on Flickr

Really hoping the crosses take this time as every other hybrid attempt I've made has failed. I am also realizing now that the sp. 1717 looks a whole lot like cyclosecta, but with some differences in leaf shape (not much in color though).
Also took a bunch of pullings to save my ehlersiae, and now I have more plantlets than I know what to do with....
P. ehlersiae albiflora by Hawken Carlton, on Flickr
 
No photos this time, but an important update: I just found sprouts of my first successful cross: P. moranensis 'Huahuapan' x esseriana! The moranensis x sp. Yucca do 1717 haven't done anything yet, but not giving up on them...
 
Crossed this:
P. esseriana by Hawken Carlton, on Flickr
And this:
P. moranensis 'Huahuapan' by Hawken Carlton, on Flickr
With this:
P. sp. Yucca do 1717 by Hawken Carlton, on Flickr
P. sp. Yucca do 1717 by Hawken Carlton, on Flickr
P. sp. Yucca do 1717 by Hawken Carlton, on Flickr

Really hoping the crosses take this time as every other hybrid attempt I've made has failed. I am also realizing now that the sp. 1717 looks a whole lot like cyclosecta, but with some differences in leaf shape (not much in color though).
Also took a bunch of pullings to save my ehlersiae, and now I have more plantlets than I know what to do with....
P. ehlersiae albiflora by Hawken Carlton, on Flickr
Talented, well done !

Amazing clones
 
So nothing came of crosses with sp. Yucca do 1717, but P. moranensis 'Huahuapan' x esseriana took and has germinated...
 
No flowers this round, but dormant pings always look cool
P. moranensis 'Huahuapan' by Hawken Carlton, on Flickr
P. sp. Yucca do 1717 by Hawken Carlton, on Flickr
As do the ones that never sleep
P. rotundiflora x hemiepiphytica by Hawken Carlton, on Flickr
P. 'Aphrodite' by Hawken Carlton, on Flickr
And apparently, I never posted any progress updates here on my first hybrid; here it is, growing very well and already looking promising (3 different seedlings here)
P. moranensis 'Huahuapan' x esseriana by Hawken Carlton, on Flickr
My primul trio are also doing well
P. primuliflora 'Rose' by Hawken Carlton, on Flickr
P. primuliflora typical by Hawken Carlton, on Flickr
P. primuliflora "white flower, Blackwater FL" by Hawken Carlton, on Flickr
And lastly, though I finally have some healthy plants in the pot they're meant to be, the lusitanica underneath my N. rajah x jacq are still the best looking
P. lusitanica by Hawken Carlton, on Flickr
 
New attempt, we'll see if it works: crossed this
P. rotundiflora x hemiepiphytica by Hawken Carlton, on Flickr
P. rotundiflora x heiepiphytica by Hawken Carlton, on Flickr
With these
P. esseriana by Hawken Carlton, on Flickr
P. esseriana by Hawken Carlton, on Flickr
P. esseriana by Hawken Carlton, on Flickr
Also got lusi to flower in the pot it's supposed to be in again
P. lusitanica by Hawken Carlton, on Flickr
But the ones in the nep pot are still the biggest
P. lusitanica by Hawken Carlton, on Flickr
P. primuliflora "typical" by Hawken Carlton, on Flickr
 
How do you apply maxsea to your pings? Spray? Drop?
Also how do you germinate the seeds?

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Generally, I don't give Maxsea to Pinguicula, but when I do it's the same pipette dropper that I use for everything else. And seeds are just sown on soil and kept moist; as I've only had one set of seeds actually germinate thus far (where the Mexican species are concerned, and very few sets attempted either) can't say I have info on a "best option" for that.
 
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