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Winter color

As I mentioned in the topic up above in the 'sticky', the VFTs that tend to get red during the season, get even redder during the fall/winter. Mine spend their winters under lights in a back basement 'cold' room where the temps range from low 40's to low 50's (*F). When spring comes, they head back outside.

Since there are so few bold colors to be found around here in the winter, glancing at these guys brightens things up & reminds me that spring isn't far off....
VFT-Dingleyred-purpleRS.jpg

Dingley's 'Red/purple' - above & below
VFT-Dingleyred-purple1RS.jpg

VFT-finetoothxredRS.jpg

VFT - finetooth x red

This clone (below) was interesting just because it mostly colored it's 'fingers' (hence the name 'Long Red Fingers'):
VFT-longredfingersRS.jpg


Apologies for the conditions - I didn't bother snipping any black leaves or cleaning up random pot debris. That doesn't happen until they go back outside...
 
Ron, I just couldn't stand it. I had to stick it!
 
Sweet nelly I don't think I've seen anything like that last one. Wow oh my god it's amazing.
 
Very impressive plants! Your “Long Red Fingers” is beautiful!! :love:

How long do you set their photoperiod during dormancy?
 
Here's a VFT 'Big Mouth' with some color...
VFT-BigMouthRS.jpg


...and a different VFT 'Long Red Fingers' showing a trap similar to a VFT 'Fused Tooth':
VFTLRFRS.jpg


Joosa - the lights are on 10 - 12 hrs per day. The bulbs are old & weak.
 
I like your "Long red fingers". I'm new to CPs. Would doing a tissue cloning reproduce VFTs with the same features? If so, have you ever thought of doing so? I'd be interested.
 
I like your "Long red fingers". I'm new to CPs. Would doing a tissue cloning reproduce VFTs with the same features? If so, have you ever thought of doing so? I'd be interested.
As I understand it, this plant is a t/c mutation and is available from a number of retailers...
 
Very neat plants with good color, but I don't understand the reason for sticky. So I unstuck it. I'll be going through all stickied threads in the near future. Seems to be a lot accumulating up there.
Andrew
 
Beautiful plants Ron. Love that color! :)
 
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Nice, variagated color! Lemme know when someone comes up with turquoise & maroon.
 
  • #11
Like RL7836, I enjoy looking at my seedling typical x red dragon vft during the gloomy winter months. The vibrant red color of the traps make the interesting a little more interesting.
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  • #12
How many watts do you use? I'm trying this next year in my attic where it's cold but has not a lot a lot of light.
 
  • #13
How many watts do you use? I'm trying this next year in my attic where it's cold but has not a lot a lot of light.


I use 96 watts, and the plant is about 8 inches from the light source.
 
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