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David, I think your wish is not a pleasant one. Some of our 'domestic' ants do know how to farm mealybugs. I've seen many already. What I'm afraid of is you will have big problem once the caudex start to have chambers and ants having their nest inside. They definetely will farm mealybugs in there!

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it is really a hydnophytum moseleyanum ?

mine is very branched

http://pinguicula.free.fr/hm1.JPG

excuse me for the bad quality picture

your moseleyanum come from what country ?

really you have DAVID a ant nest in your caudex ? do you know the ant specie ?

jeff

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http://images.search.yahoo.com/image...%26fr%3Dyfp-t-
Gee.....I'm not too sure. Yours looks like one. Still new to this. Maybe this link will give you some answer you are looking for.

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Btw, your plant is really nice.

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I got a few from Andy, some from nurseries (Dischidia) and others from other members like Choong aka KLtower (ant ferns).

Andy's and mine came from Australia. Bought the seeds off ebay from a grower there.

Nope! Not familier witrh ant species. I'll see if I can snap a few photos of them in the next few days.


Andy, here's my Hydnophytum moseleyanum...
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I think I starve my plant for too long:spinning:

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Maybe I should starve mine so that the caudex is more bulbose. I can't wait for it to grow up, so I keep fertilising it. But it gave me a spurt of growth after I repotted into this media and this bigger pot. The rest are only half the size of this plant. I think I need to repot them as well.

Jeff, I like the shape of your plant. Really nice like a bongsai

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Ya....I think can slow down your fertiliser schedule since it had a good start. Let the caudex do the forming. Hmmm...I will feed mine more regularly and see what happen.

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atmccmn

some problem with your link :crying:

DAVID

do you know if this hydnophytum moseleyanum come from a collection or from natural species find in australia?

because in australia you have just these hydnophytum natural species
http://www.anbg.gov.au/cgi-bin/apni?...ME=HYDNOPHYTUM

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Jeff, the seller told me it was native to Australia on the North-Eastern side of the continent. It grows on low trees over the sea. 1-2 other websites also confirms that hydnophytum moseleyanum are native in Australia and also Papua New Guinea.

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papuanum also

why rather moseleyanum than papuanum ?

I give a official site from the Australian National Herbarium

I think they speak of thing which they know

but can be I am mistaken