germination of rare south africans

[aaddaam]

iam proud to announce i have sucessfully germinated
15-Drosera hilaris 'Stellenbosch, South Africa'
2 at the moment-Drosera cistiflora
3-Drosera cistiflora 'Bainskloof, South Africa'
i will try to post some pics later.

adam

 

[Jefforever]

Nice job Adam! Good practice for the seed I'm sending you... they got here today!

 

[cmm889]

good job, I havnt seen half of those

set up some photo's when they start growing !

 

[aaddaam]

what seeds?
NVM i remember now!!

 

[Tamlin Dawnstar]

I would be very interested in seeing any and all photos of Drosera hilaris

 

[Not a Number]

Tamiln, there are some shots of Drosera hilaris here of other growers plants:
http://icps.proboards105.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=drosera&thread=1094&page=1
http://icps.proboards105.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=drosera&thread=2399&page=1

I for the life of me have been unable to get seeds of this species to germinate. I put them outdoors for the cold weather but nothing. Of course the heavy wind driven rain a few weeks ago washing out many of my pots didn't help. I guess I'll have to wait until next winter to try again with my reserve seeds.

 

[Tamlin Dawnstar]

Thanks for the links. What a neat plant this is, and one I never had germination from like you sad to say.

 

[Pyro]

NaN,

Have you tried giving them a hot dry summer first and then returning to tray the following winter? I have gotten great germination off of the closely related D. cistiflora this way.

 

[Not a Number]

I'll give that a shot. It makes sense to have a hot and dry stratification first for winter growers.

Here's another link to more photos http://www-cp.stech.co.jp/cp/dro/D-hilaris_e.html