It's been awhile since we traded some plants... Has the D. capensis
I gave you started to fatten-up like your other plants? I'm really
curious to know if it really is a thin-leaved form, or if the difference
is simply environmental.
I talked with Peter D'Amato about the difference between the thin and
regular-leaved capensis. His experience was that the thin-leaved form:
1) Had thinner leaves :-),
2) Always remained a low-rosette, and never developed a long
stalk built of dead leaves,
3) was difficult to get seed from.
The capensis that I have looks distinctly thinner and more delicate than
what I've seen elsewhere, but my year-old plants have developed about
3/4" of a "trunk", and reseed like crazy...
Does anyone else have any experience with ID'ing these things?
(The reason I want to know is that Peter said that he would trade for my
plants if they were thin-leaved, but that he was otherwise not interested)
I'm planning to take a plant with me when Peter is down for the Palo Alto
Junior Museum CP-show.
Here's a run-down on the plants I got from you:
I repotted the D. auriculata seedlings (marked from Bros. Taylor) in
50/50 sand/peat, and put them 16 to a pot on roughly 1/2" centers. They
are just now breaking out of the basal rosette form and starting to
climb. I've got them in a 2 3/4" pot. Do you think they need a deeper
pot for tuber development the first season?
The D. adeleae have put out two or three new leaves, and turned a nice red,
but hasn't really taken off yet.
I think I may lose the two D. hamiltonii. They haven't done much at
all. They are in the original pot in my terrarium under four 4'
fluorescents. I have them standing in 1/4" water. Temps from 60-70 F.
Both the N. mirabilis seedlings and the mirabilis x ted payne have put out
a few new pitchers and are looking pretty happy.
The U. gramminifolia has filled up the pot, but the praelonga is really
going slowly. I can just now start to see some new leaf development.
Hopefully, it is doing a lot of work underground :-).
-- Rick