Since I have misslocated my Plant progress thred and it was getting to long to easly be read. I'm picking up here. So after a few months too bussy to do this, here it is again
Overall News: Ooops!
During my insain summer, I managed to burn all but two pots of plants when forgetting to water on time. Thankfully, casuaties where low.
VFTs:
Snapper (Typical): While suffering a light singeing, this plant shruged off it's little misshap and is currently behaving in it's standard mini rossetted way. It has also been weened to living without a terrarium.
Big Red (Typical): Not as big as it can reach, but sporting many lovly magenta mouthed traps, this plant is A-OK. It also ate a cool fly thing in frunt of me the other day.
Green (Typical): Well, it still looks like it's dieing, but it looks more alive then it has since last erm... november when it crashed on me. Heck, it even fully forms traps now, lol. Still poor pigment and wimpy little stubs for most leaves, but a marked improvment overall. I figure next spring it will be as good as new.
Little Red (Red Dragon): Doing quite well, but lost a good 7 leaves from the burn. However, it has 12 or so left so not too worry. Actually, it seems in a rather good mood making traps much much larger then last year. Unfortunetly, the sphagnum living with it is doing less successfully and still battles with that odd fungi.
Babies: Oh my gosh, they ate a gnat. Is that weird or what, they are so super itty bitty. Oh and they are growing very well.
Neps.
Little Gulp (Ventricosa 'Red'
. Outch, lost three leaves and two pitchures to the burn. On the bright side, it's still growing strong and making new leaves and pitchures weekly. However, little can be said for overall growth since December.
Sarrs.
Northern Purples: Two babies, yes, two! Of all TWO to sprout are growing strong!
They even have started to turn purple and one has an itsy bitsy 'mature' pitchure already. Total plant size is about 1 inch long for each pitchure and 5 pitures each. They sprouted this spring so that seems like good growth to me.
Sundew:
Alicea: Not much in the growth department, but still kicking along.
Spatulata: About the same as Alicea.
Mini Mystery: AHHHH! Grow DANG IT! ... For those coming in late, these things sprouted in october of 2002 and quickly grew to about 1 cm in diameter. Then they just stayed their. You can hardly even see the dang things and my camera can't focus on them, thats how tiney they are. In all other regards however, they are doing fine, and are nice and super magenta. Amazingly, all survived the burn without signs of damage.
Capensis:
Typical: The Burn took out a few, but one very large and a few smaller ones survived. A good thinning meathiod I guess.
Alba/Albino/whatever: They took the burn a bit worse. I think just the one big plant survived, but I thought it was just the one typical untill some tiney new shoots poped up in the last day or so. Hopefully I'll have one of each seed batch surviving. On the bright side, the surviving plant has it's first two mature(long) leaves, aws.
ButterWarts:
Mexican: Ahhhh, 4 aborted flowerstaulks, why, why does it keep making them and then stoping after the first inch! Oh yah, and as you may have guessed, this is a newcomer. I don't really know this plants rythems yet... actually, it doesn't seem to care what the heck I do to it because all it does is make 1 inch flower staulks and abort them while kicking out 3-5 new leaves a week. Ovious an exact subspiecies can't be asigned untill it flowers so it's extra anoying. However, it's seemingly unkillable nature sugests that it's a good starter plant and I'm starting to think that should it ever learn to reproduce it would make an interesting weed. Oh well.
So thats it. I basically spent my summer abusing and nearly killing my plants, feeling stupid and then repeating the process. The scary part is, they still look better then they did when I got them so I can't be doing everything wrong
Overall News: Ooops!
During my insain summer, I managed to burn all but two pots of plants when forgetting to water on time. Thankfully, casuaties where low.
VFTs:
Snapper (Typical): While suffering a light singeing, this plant shruged off it's little misshap and is currently behaving in it's standard mini rossetted way. It has also been weened to living without a terrarium.
Big Red (Typical): Not as big as it can reach, but sporting many lovly magenta mouthed traps, this plant is A-OK. It also ate a cool fly thing in frunt of me the other day.
Green (Typical): Well, it still looks like it's dieing, but it looks more alive then it has since last erm... november when it crashed on me. Heck, it even fully forms traps now, lol. Still poor pigment and wimpy little stubs for most leaves, but a marked improvment overall. I figure next spring it will be as good as new.
Little Red (Red Dragon): Doing quite well, but lost a good 7 leaves from the burn. However, it has 12 or so left so not too worry. Actually, it seems in a rather good mood making traps much much larger then last year. Unfortunetly, the sphagnum living with it is doing less successfully and still battles with that odd fungi.
Babies: Oh my gosh, they ate a gnat. Is that weird or what, they are so super itty bitty. Oh and they are growing very well.
Neps.
Little Gulp (Ventricosa 'Red'
Sarrs.
Northern Purples: Two babies, yes, two! Of all TWO to sprout are growing strong!
Sundew:
Alicea: Not much in the growth department, but still kicking along.
Spatulata: About the same as Alicea.
Mini Mystery: AHHHH! Grow DANG IT! ... For those coming in late, these things sprouted in october of 2002 and quickly grew to about 1 cm in diameter. Then they just stayed their. You can hardly even see the dang things and my camera can't focus on them, thats how tiney they are. In all other regards however, they are doing fine, and are nice and super magenta. Amazingly, all survived the burn without signs of damage.
Capensis:
Typical: The Burn took out a few, but one very large and a few smaller ones survived. A good thinning meathiod I guess.
Alba/Albino/whatever: They took the burn a bit worse. I think just the one big plant survived, but I thought it was just the one typical untill some tiney new shoots poped up in the last day or so. Hopefully I'll have one of each seed batch surviving. On the bright side, the surviving plant has it's first two mature(long) leaves, aws.
ButterWarts:
Mexican: Ahhhh, 4 aborted flowerstaulks, why, why does it keep making them and then stoping after the first inch! Oh yah, and as you may have guessed, this is a newcomer. I don't really know this plants rythems yet... actually, it doesn't seem to care what the heck I do to it because all it does is make 1 inch flower staulks and abort them while kicking out 3-5 new leaves a week. Ovious an exact subspiecies can't be asigned untill it flowers so it's extra anoying. However, it's seemingly unkillable nature sugests that it's a good starter plant and I'm starting to think that should it ever learn to reproduce it would make an interesting weed. Oh well.
So thats it. I basically spent my summer abusing and nearly killing my plants, feeling stupid and then repeating the process. The scary part is, they still look better then they did when I got them so I can't be doing everything wrong