I agree with Mike. I stuck those seeds in a pot and put them by my many
other seed pots. The trick with CPs and seed, I think, is to have at least
15 pots of different seeds sitting around at all times. I have probably
about 50. This way, if each takes, oh, one year to germinate, on the
average I have something new coming up each week!
Relax...sit back...To quote one Kevin Costner film, ``If you plant them,
they will come...''
>Our Byblis is running at full flower again ... Has anyone experimented with
>different tuning forks to see which note is best?
Any will do. Most are A and E note, but I've found that once you get the
technique down a tuning fork isn't always necessary but it makes the job
easier. You're just using it to agitate the anthers---it's not like there's
any critical frequency harmonic involved.
>BTW, the D. capensis seed I got from Barry long ago never did
WOW! It didn't??? Oy! Those seeds must have been hit by cosmic rays or
something! D. capensis is my numero uno weed! Well, next time I send you
something I could send you some plantlets.
>> I've been considering pruning my N. X. boissiense for a while,
>
>That is correct. If you want to make a terminal cutting, take off as
>much as you want, 3-4 leaves at a minimum. Don't cut the stem where
>it's woody and don't cut near the terminal end where the stem is too
>flimsy. An old CPN article gives a neat method that seems to work,
>where after you take the terminal cutting, you then wait for a new
>crown to break on the stem just below where you took the cutting. You
>can then take a one-node cutting,
I agree with this method, and this article is how I learned to take cuttings.
Funny though, my terminal cutting usually only has 2 or 3 leaves and I
usually do fine. Also, as for the rest of the branch I always take
single node cuttings as described in the article.
>Speaking of land Utriculatria, do they have the same trapping mechanism,
>'bladders' as the aquatic type?
Yep! Of course, there is a bewildering variety of flanges, flaps, hairs,
bumps, lumps and glands that makes each species' trap almost unique.
Taylor relies on it heavily in his keys. This wild array of traps makes me
somewhat less impressed by claims that since Poly*etc has strange traps,
it should be classified as a distinct genus.
BAMR