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Old 4th October 2008, 04:37 AM
Pananep Pananep is offline
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Exclamation Re: D. intermedia.....

Ok, no replies yet hehe.....Maybe it's because of the fact that I have not uploaded a pic yet??? Anyways, I don't really know if a picture would really help, as all forms of D. intermedia are quite similar.
I bought the packet of seeds from BugBitingPalnts.com. I sent them an e-mail not too long ago asking them which form of D. intermedia seeds they carried and they and they replied saying they really had no idea. Anybody ever bought D. intermedia seeds from them before? If so, please let me know of your experience with the plants. I really need to know if they are the tropical form or not.
I have searched the web on how to provide D. intermedia with dormancy and found nothing. As of now I am thinking of doing the following:
-The plants already gave me a fair amount of seeds, so I know I can sow those next year in February-March. If I knew they were the tropical form I would sow them right away and know there is no need for stratification.
-I am going to propagate these plants from leaf cuttings in the next couple of weeks. Then I will proceed with the mother plants as if they were the temperate forms: gradually reduce light hours and increase temps with A/C and then provide them with fridge dormancy. I figure this way I can learn by trial and error which form they are and still have some cuttings growing just in case that they die.
Anyways, sorry for being so persistent, I just urgently need for someone to shed light on this subject. I don't want to kill plants just because.
Take care!
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