P. gypsicola pics
 

P. gypsicola pics,
I have been told that gypsicola needs a long dry period, but I keep mine damp to wet all year long and it goes in and out of winter stage with no problems.

http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u...1978/GYPS1.jpg

http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u...1978/GYPS2.jpg

http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u...1978/GYPS3.jpg

Peace,
Zero

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Beautiful pinguicula!!

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wow,this is 1 unusual looking ping

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This is one of my dream CP to acquire and grow. Such a beauty, words cannot describe. Simply beautiful. Thanks for sharing the picture of your plant.

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nice picture

you still have the winter roset

mine actually

http://pinguicula.free.fr/gysp4.JPG

http://pinguicula.free.fr/gypsi6.JPG

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Eh...how they digest?Won't the digestive juices spill all over?

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no no

on pinguicula you have 2 glands

one to catch the insect it is the mucilage ( sticky)
and an other to digest these one .

in fact it is the same system like drosera-drosophyllum-byblis

jeff

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OMG~
AHHH... ahhhh.. AHHHHHH~ That's so beautiful... looks like tentacles =0

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I grow this one too and its not as difficult to grow as you'd think. Here's a pic when it was going to flower some time back(I lost the pic of the flower):
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3531/...8ca46a1b_o.jpg

Here's what it looks like now(ignore the dead Heli :P ):
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2752/...3951e3c4_o.jpg

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nice gypsi .

she is difficult on some year for their dormancy .
in this case she have a water horror ,often resulting in its rot

what is your substrat ? just sphagnum .


'in situ' they are gypsicole :1thumbup:

jeff

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The plant looks totallly difference in difference season... May I know the plant can grow at tropical country?

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yes 2 different form for 2 different saison

here the winter form in dormancy


http://pinguicula.free.fr/gypsicola.jpg

you can see here the mexican habitats , before choice in a google modul the language . clic on mexican and after habitats ( climats, temperature,raining ,etc).

http://fern72.free.fr/siteweb/pinguicula.html

you can try in tropical country ,the mexican are tropical but from 800m to 3000m .

jeff

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Well, I'm from Singapore and I grow it. One grows in peat and perlite, the other on sphagnum. Neither gives and problems, even when grown on the tray system. They don't seem to need the dormancy period so far.

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how long have you this gypsicola ?

here their 'in situ' condition , more mineral no :blush:

http://pinguicula.free.fr/gypsicola12.jpg

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I have had the ping for 2 years I think.
IIRC, They grow in gypsum soil that's where they get there name from.
My media contains crushed coral for mineral supplement.