My 'tray of adelae' 2015

[tommyr]

Picture taken a few weeks ago.

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[NatchGreyes]

That's neat looking! I can't wait for mine to start getting like that again.

 

[Radagast]

Very cool! I just separated my adelae clump a few weeks ago and repotted them into better media. They're doing quite well and I hope they one day look like that!

Are they planted in a clear tub? If so I'm surprised we don't see any plantlets growing on the side behind the plastic.

 

[Brolloks]

Beautiful plants Tommy.
This species has been one of my biggest challenges, kept on dying back to the roots over and over. Got a tiny plant left which is starting to grow very nicely! really hope this tiny plant is going to be my lucky one.

 

[dozer1028]

Fantastic

 

[sflynn]

Nice! Hope mine looks like that eventually, it opened it's first flower today, so it's got a long way to go!

 

[adnedarn]

I love that, very very nice! You must have them fairly close to lights- when I grew indoors I liked to keep some there (where they would become even smaller than yours and red), and some out in a more shade spot where they would get really big and green.

 

[tommyr]

Very cool! I just separated my adelae clump a few weeks ago and repotted them into better media. They're doing quite well and I hope they one day look like that!

Are they planted in a clear tub? If so I'm surprised we don't see any plantlets growing on the side behind the plastic.

The tray is clear and sitting in the blue cat litter water tray. Once a year I trim out the dead stuff. This opens up big spaces which fill back up with new plants over a years ttime.

 

[tommyr]

I love that, very very nice! You must have them fairly close to lights- when I grew indoors I liked to keep some there (where they would become even smaller than yours and red), and some out in a more shade spot where they would get really big and green.

Thanks! They're just below a west facing picture window. No additional lights. Under really bright lights they would turn red. I like them green personally.

 

[adnedarn]

Nice!
I liked finding the balance of green with pink dew. But the ones that were completely green and really really big really tickled my fancy too! I also am not a fan of the really small red ones.

 

[Brolloks]

Thanks! They're just below a west facing picture window. No additional lights. Under really bright lights they would turn red. I like them green personally.

Do you know what the humidity is for the spot where they are standing?

 

[tommyr]

Do you know what the humidity is for the spot where they are standing?

Yes, it varies right now between 30 and 70%. Humidity isn't a big issue with Adelae I find.

 

[Brolloks]

That's awesome, I want to acclimatize mine to lower humidity.
I have my tiny surviving plants pot covered with Saran wrap at the moment and it really improved a lot.

 

[pappydew]

Mine never had problems at 40-50%

 

[Brolloks]

Mine never had problems at 40-50%

Mine died back to the roots over and over until I finally boosted the humidity. But I have read that quite a few people struggled or struggle with this species and they all seem to relate it to humidity.

 

[pappydew]

Mine died back to the roots over and over until I finally boosted the humidity. But I have read that quite a few people struggled or struggle with this species and they all seem to relate it to humidity.

Mine really only struggled when it got overcrowded by daughter plants.

 

[w03]

I second that - humidity isn't a huge issue unless you don't acclimate it well. I have D. adelae growing under bright lights on top of a running air conditioner, so the humidity is something abysmal. It did fine until it made around 20 plantlets from the roots, and is slowing down now.