Re: nepenthes seed medium
Oliver T Massey CFS (massey@hal.fmhi.usf.edu)
Fri, 13 Jan 1995 09:33:29 -0500
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> I just recently received some Nepenthes seed. Can someone tell me
> what the best medium is on which to sow it? Any suggestions would be
> appreciated. Christoph
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I recently received seed from the ICPS seedbank and tried a less than
perfect experiment. In the past I have planted Nep seed on live long
fiber sphagnum with reasonable results. This time I had two kinds of
seed so I took two trays and roughly divided them into thirds. One
third was a peat sand mixture, one third was dried long fiber sphagnum
(rewetted of course) and the last third was live long fiber sphagnum.
The inert mediums were cooked in the microwave to sterilize them. For
both species highest germination was on the dried long fiber sphagnum.
Contrary to the past, neither species germinated in the live sphagnum,
and one species only produced one or two seedlings on the peat/sand
medium. There were marked differences in the germination between the
two species. As I mentioned this was imperfect, and I have had success
in the past with live sphagnum, but it was enough to convince me to use
dried sphagnum for at least a portion of my seed.
Tom in Fl