About the Finn in the other end of the cable

Friday, May 04, 2012

Spring coming

Howdy! Spring is now coming to Finland too. Photobucket Some kind of Crocus sp. Flowering outdoors If you look carefully you will see a bumblebee in the most right of the flowers.

Photobucket Phalaenopsis orchid continues making flowers to old flowerstalk.

Photobucket Ludisia discolor cuttings growing alongside with Nepenthes ampullaria 'Brunei Red' x 'Harlequin'

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N. ampullaria's so far biggest pitcher. It's 7 cm (2.7") high including the height of lid.

Photobucket Pinguicula emarginata is enjoying the new growing light.

Photobucket Pinguicula laueana is growing nicely too. It's just making more and more leaves and growing more rapidly. I wish to see the plant flowering someday.

Photobucket Utricularia livida 'Blue' gaining a nice color on it's flower.

Photobucket Flower of seedgrown Utricularia calycifida from Gran Sabana.

Photobucket Flower of Utricularia nephrophylla from Serra dos Orgaos, Brazil. Inspired by Sebulon from CPUK I wanted to see how root system of my Utricularia alpina is doing. Here's the plant.

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and here's the root system

 Photobucket Photobucket PhotobucketI'd say that's pretty well if you notice that when I got this plant it had only two leaves and one tuber. It tried to flower for me but then I over watered it and the flowerstalk rot away.
Spring coming and temperatures are slowly going up. I think I can start ordering plants in following few weeks if the temperatures keep rising so that we will not have frost during night. Enjoy the spring!

2 comments:

  1. aika hienoja noi vesiherneen ansat. mä oon aina kuvitellut että noita kasveja pitää kasvattaa suoraan vedessä - mutta ilmeisesti noinkin pärjää :---)

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    1. Osa näistä Orchioides-sektioon kuuluvista vesiherneistä tykkää kasvaa enemmän tai vähemmän epifyytteinä joten kasvualustankin pitää olla ilmavaa ja mahdollisuus kuivahtaa. Ja noi isommat mokkulat tuolla juuristossa eivät suinkaan ole ansoja vaan juurimukuloita, joihin kasvi sitten vetäytyy jos olosuhteet käyvät huonoiksi. Ihana kasvi, suosittelen kokeilemaan!

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