Drosera x(lake badgerup)

[TS]

Originally Posted by Khoas

TS, your pygmies look like they are getting enough light, they have good colouration. By dormancy do you mean summer (dry) dormancy or gemmae production?

G'day Donny, what I mean is summer dormancy. Some other pygmies already go dormant but this one kept growing.

For gemmae production simply place the pot in the fridge for 12 hours each night. They will think it winter and produce gemmae.

Really? That's interesting! But can they stand the fluctuation of the temperature, the day temperature here would be 35°C. Can this method be applied on other sundews like rotundifolia to induce it to flower? My D. rotundifolia never produce any flowers since I grow them.

Azra, Edy & Casey, thanks, hope you enjoy the picture.

[edmund83]

Originally Posted by TS

I was taking a photo of my ping for ID, might as well take some others to share, this is my D. x(lake badgerup)

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wah ... TS ... the plant kill me also ... hehehe superb nice

[Khoas]

Originally Posted by TS

Really? That's interesting! But can they stand the fluctuation of the temperature, the day temperature here would be 35°C. Can this method be applied on other sundews like rotundifolia to induce it to flower? My D. rotundifolia never produce any flowers since I grow them.

Sorry about taken so long to answer, did not notice your question
I would try with a pot of a hybrid varieties to start with. I would not be too worry about the temperature range. It can change by 20 C or more naturally here in a few hours. Last week we had couple of days in the low 30's with night temp dropping down to 12 - 15 C.
With the round - leaf sundew (Sorry I love common names) I think it would useful inducing winter dormancy with some species but the temperature range might be bit of a problem, maybe spending some time with ultrahigh Neps for daytime would be closer to the natural temperature for the North Hemisphere winters. Why induce dormany? well once species such as filiformis and rotundifolia break dormancy they generally flower as they are throwing out their new leaves.

[TS]

...once species such as filiformis and rotundifolia break dormancy they generally flower as they are throwing out their new leaves.

Oh yeah, why didn't I think of that? OK now, how should I do to induce them to dormancy? Will placing the pot in the fridge for 12 hours at night work? The day temperature remain unchanged.

[Khoas]

For a educated guess I would start off with 1 night in the fridge for 8 hours out of 3 nights to start the plant off into dormancy, gradually increase the total hours and nights in the fridge over the next 6 weeks.
If you do get some seeds off your rountifolia I would be interested
Your plant has adapted to tropical condition and would be a better gene source for South Aussie conditions.

[TS]

Thanks Donny for the tips. I'll do some leaf cuttings first before I test the method just in case something go wrong.

[caseyhoo]

Originally Posted by TS

Thanks Donny for the tips. I'll do some leaf cuttings first before I test the method just in case something go wrong.

D. x lake badgerup can propagate using leaf cutting? out of topic, how about pygmy ?

[Khoas]

Originally Posted by caseyhoo

D. x lake badgerup can propagate using leaf cutting? out of topic, how about pygmy ?

I guess you could, I never have try to do it, I just use gemmae. By pygmy are you using the common name for D. pygmea? If so same answer as above

[TS]

Hi Casey, I have successfully propagated D.pulchella with leaf. I haven't tried it with D.x(lake badgerup) and yet to tryout other pygmies when I'm free.

[caseyhoo]

IC... I will open the others thread about this...