Starting Genlisea leaf cuttings?

[swords]

I'm getting a number of leaf cuttings of Genlisea aurea and 2 forms of G. hispidula and I was curious what would be the best way to start them? In Peat, live moss, floating in water...? Sorry if there's been a post about this before.

 

[jimscott]

I would go with saturated live moss.

 

[swords]

So just kinda like getting a Utric plug started then, I can handle that.

Do you have any Genlisea - are they pretty simple once established? Any of course, do they flower reliably indoors under glass?

 

[seedjar]

Peat or peat and sand. It's easy as pie. If you lose the G. hispidula I've got them coming out my ears.
~Joe

 

[jimscott]

I currently have G. hispidula and violacae. They are recent acquisitions. Back a few few years I have had Genlisea colonies flower.

This was G. lobata:

This was G. hispidula:

 

[swords]

Cool they do bloom!

Do they bloom once a year or on and off?

Pics I've seen show rosetted clumps kind of like a Sempervium, are those young clumps who just haven't carpeted yet or do they stay mostly confined to the "mound" shape?

 

[seedjar]

Mine bloom once they start to get rootbound, it seems. Photoperiod might also have something to do with it... I mostly just stick them in a corner and ignore them so I'm not entirely sure. But once they do get to blooming, they don't seem to stop until I repot them. When mine were in competition with moss and the like they stayed rosetted, but these days I have a few pots that have been totally carpeted. At least one was a pot where I threw all the broken-off leaves and such after a big repotting, so that might explain why they're so prolific in there.
~Joe

 

[swords]

Sounds good to me!

 

[Pyro]

Frequency of blooms depends on the species. I tended to find hispidula and violacea were pretty regular bloomers while pygmea, repens and lobata would only go once per year.

I tended to find that they did better in a peat/sand mix but that may have just been my conditions.

Most will strike well from leaves but I preferred to keep them on just damp moss rather than saturated moss, the latter just seemed to have higher loss rates

 

[swords]

Thanks, I had planted the leaf pulls like when I'm trying to establish a utric (just flooded to the soil surface) but I have poured off the excess water after reading your note. We'll see how they go.

 

[Tamlin Dawnstar]

Ground live moss from the food blender is the best medium to start cuttings. Mine regularly bloomed in the spring, G. violacaea almost all year.