U. nelumbifolia

[FarmerDave]

How do you grow this plant? Is it hard to obtain?

I saw it in Growing Carnivorous Plants by Barry A. Rice
and i immediately said, "I have to have that!"

 

[rattler]

most grow it in sopping wet LFS, easy to grow and in the right conditions is practically a weed as it will send arial stolons everywhere. not hard to find but not easy either........some looking should turn one up without to much trouble.........

 

[Pyro]

I grow mine a little differently than Rattler but not in the essentials. Very easy with a little effort. And as Rattler said, it can become a weed by "pot hopping".

It turns up from time to time on the trade board, I'd just keep an eye there.

 

[FarmerDave]

ok. Thanks!

 

[jimscott]

Quote[/b] (rattler_mt @ Dec. 18 2006,6:32)]most grow it in sopping wet LFS, easy to grow and in the right conditions is practically a weed as it will send arial stolons everywhere. not hard to find but not easy either........some looking should turn one up without to much trouble.........

Same here!

 

[CP30]

good to know Jim! (and Rattler)

How do you grow yours, Pryo?

 

[DerbyCityNeps]

is this one the one that has the complete cup shape leaves of the kidney ones? how easy is it for it to flower? i do REALLY like its flowers.
Alex

EDIT: ah its the cup one. nephrophylla is the other. nelumbifolia is still the one i like though.
Alex

 

[Pyro]

Quote[/b] (CP30 @ Jan. 01 2007,10:25)]How do you grow yours, Pryo?

The short version:

Mother plant is in an orchid basket lined with LFS with only enough room for a core of pine bark mulch. Topped with live sphag. Sitting in a "tray" (actually a 55G tank but it amounts to the same thing). Water level is no more than 3cm, top water when all water gone from "tray". Light is a 400W MH/HID set 65cm above the tank. Grown as a highlander in the crawlspace.

Pot jumper #1 is on a D. regia pot, media of peat/sand/pine bark mulch. Same watering and lighting.

Pot jumper #2 is on a U. calycifida pot, media straight pine bark mulch. Same watering and lighting.

Aerial offset #1 is in straight live sphag. Same watering and lighting

Aerial offset #2 is in straight pine bark mulch. Same watering and lighting

I am considering trying one of the offsets I have going in the manner of my Orchidioides for kicks. There is a thread here all about that if you are interested.

 

[Jeremiah Harris]

U. nelumbifolia is one of my all time favorite Utricularia. I grow mine in a 16" pot, I keep the soil damp but not sopping wet. My is almost always in bloom right now it has 17 spikes.

Here are some photos of the flowers.

Thanks,
-Jeremiah-

 

[BobZ]

Jeremiah, it is interesting that all 3 of your photos are named
2006-1-27_U_humboldtii_---.jpg
What gives?

 

[Jeremiah Harris]

Hello,

Well it is kind of a long story, I acquired the plant labeled U. humboldtii. I grow it until it flowered thinking it was U. humboldtii. Then I posted these photos Pyro informed me that it was not U. humboldtii and ask me what the leaves looked like, I told him they were perfectly round so he said they must be U. nelumbifolia.

thanks
-Jeremiah-

 

[Pyro]

I did?!? My brain must be out to lunch as I seriously do not recall that. I must be getting senile.

And now I am wondering if I am off my gourd because those blooms do look sort of humboldtii-like. Jeramiah, any chance you have photos of the leaves?? An ID is certain then. If not I can pop a couple shots of my plants as a compare and contrast. But I won't be able to load them till tomorrow.

 

[Jeremiah Harris]

I just looking up the old topic here
It was I guess it was Seandew and Fernando Rivadavia but you added a photo of your leaf to help ID.  Here is a photo of the whole plant.

Thanks again,
-Jeremiah-

 

[DerbyCityNeps]

a heli hitch hiker!?

what are the red things growing all over the place?
Alex

 

[Pyro]

Yes that is definitly nelumbifolia.

Glider, those red things are mostly aerial stolons (though a couple could be petioles.) Looks like Jeremiah has been training all his back intohis pot. I wonder if that is what I have to do to get mine to bloom??