D. adelae leaf cutting experiment

[shawnintland]

Remember that D. adelae that got eaten up by scale? Well, I cut the leaves off and tried cleaning them of all scale and soaked 'em in water for a month and BINGO! Got little guys! Today I decided to experiment with transplanting into the following media for them;

Pure sphagnum moss
Pure sphagnum moss over a layer of perlite
Peat over perlite
Peat/sphag. over perlite
Peat/sphag./sand over perlite
Pure perlite















I'll post results in a few weeks

[shawnintland]

Well, nine days into the experiment and I've seen a couple things so far. Now this is from only a few samples so don't necessarily rule out anything just because of these results. I tried to keep everything the same; light intensity, humidity, temperature, etc.

Here's how things were looking today;
On pure peat moss;

close up;


On potting mix with chopped sphagnum over perlite; (sorry for the blur!)

close up;


On pure sphagnum; (well, I got the label in focus!)

close-up;


On pure perlite;


So, I don't think I'll use the pure peat too often! The sphagnum, the perlite and the potting mix are a pretty close tie but it appears that the pure sphagnum plants are the healthiest of the bunch.
Anyone else with results please post them!

[arvin555]

Hi Shawn, may we ask for a summary rating? Just do excellent, Above Average, average, below average

Pure sphagnum moss
Pure sphagnum moss over a layer of perlite
Peat over perlite
Peat/sphag. over perlite
Peat/sphag./sand over perlite
Pure perlite

I have actually used dried Sphagnum moss with most of my seeds, sometimes Sphagnum and cocopeat.

TTFN
Arvin

[shawnintland]

a summary rating;

Pure sphagnum moss +++ (unchopped grew better but chopped easier to tpl
Pure sphagnum moss over a layer of perlite (fine chopped) +++
Peat over perlite ---
Peat/sphag. over perlite +
Peat/sphag./sand over perlite ++
Pure perlite ++ (Survivors look good but 50% plants didn't make it.)

[bactrus]

You have now made multiplyplying D. adelae much easier. I am just plain lazy, I wait for side shoots from roots.

[edwardyeeks]

Nice plantlets, I like them......I can't wait for my first drosera, then I shall be propragating them this way!

Cheers