Utricularia asplundii

Today arrived the first packet for this year containing seeds of beautiful plant named Utricularia asplundii. Thanks to Sebulon! I will inform you all about how the seeds will grow.



Testing macro mode on  Phalaenopsis flower.


Cephalotus follicularis. Easy grower at least under my conditions. Biggest plant has made 2 new and smaller plant one new growing point.


Nepenthes veitchii 'Golden perisome' has now this 3 cm(1.18") high pitcherwith some nice colour.

BIG photo update

Hey there. Sorry for taking so long to make new post. I've been busy because of studying and family parties, but now back to the updates for the plants.

After spectacular flowering my Jewel orchid is happily putting up some new qrowth.



D. kaiteurensis seeds have germinated and the germination rate was totally amazing!



D. sessifolia is a lovely annual species which looks very much like D. burmannii
and is a weedy species. Better to keep this lovely plant under control.



D. coccicaulis and lots of moss.



D. felix which had a strong will to survive.



And I said that pygmy sundews aren't anything special but this little fella really is something. Small but beautiful D. omissa x pulchella.



D. venusta which almost got forgotten on the table for 2 weeks with no water and extra light is looking a bit better now.



U. minutissima from Gunung Tahan starting to bloom



and there are even more stalks yet to bloom



U. nephrophylla is growing a nice flowerstalk too. This plant grows in open terraria to maximize the ventilation




U. alpina doesn't like open terraria anymore and the flowerstalk is slowly turning yellow :(



U reniformis keeps growing larger and larger leaves. Hopefully it starts flowering when conditions are a bit better for my epiphytic utrics



U. tricolor and mystery of what potting mix did I use for this plant again?



Love for Australian plants.









But life isn't just happy things. I now declare the plants that have died in this rough winter.

Drosera neocaledonica
Drosera slackii
Drosera sp. 'Pretty Rosette'
Genlisea lobata x violacea
Nepenthes sanguinea 'Black Beauty'
Nepenthes x 'Hookeriana'
Pinguicula lusitanica
Utricularia sandersonii

But in the summer I will make up for the losses and order some more plants and try to make some things for my terraria setup but I will update about that later.
60 cm of snow and -10 celcius outside but warm cup of hot hot chocolate keeps body and thoughts warm. Another thing that keeps my thoughts warm is to see numbers larger than 2 000 in total pageviews. Thank you very much for reading my blog!

New seeds and updates

Howdy.

Yesterday I received seeds of D. ascendens from Bandeira Peak, D. intermedia from Cuba, D. oblanceolata 'Sunset Peak' and D. kaiteurensis thanks to Carlos Rohrbacher.
Not so sure if I can get D. ascendens to grow well but I will try my best.

My newest Utrics have already recovered well and growth speed of epiphytic utrics is faster than I predicted in my conditions.

U. reniformis


U. nephrophylla 'Serra dos Orgaos'


U. alpina looking very happy.


U. tricolor


My Cephalotus is making a new (big?) pitcher. The tendril is thicker than the ones that it makes to It's juvenile pitchers. Maybe first good sized pitcher?


Sundew seedling are growing steadily.

D. natalensis from Inanda road


D. nidiformis



D. intermedia from Gran Sabana is amazing me with false vivipary again. So far this flower stalk plantlet has grown in to a nice small plant, which is making it's own flowerstalk.


Weird isn't it?

D. felix is showing some positive sings and is opening it's first dewy leaves soon.


D. graomogolensis is slowly growing but so far no dewy leaves.


D. petiolaris showing lots of dewy leaves


Pinguicula emarginata x(moranensis x ehlrsiae) plants grown from leaf cuttings.

Before 1


Before 2


Now


Seeds of my cross D. spatulata var. lovellae 'Bloody Red' x D. intermedia 'Gran Sabana'and vice versa are soon rippen and I will try to germinate them as soon as possible.

The BIG photo update!

Starts with Pinguicula emarginata


Followed by other Pinguicula such as Pinguicula laueana


Pinguicula esseriana. So far the loveliest Pinguicula that I grow.


Seedlings of Pinguicula lusitanica

Continuing with other plants of Lentibulariaceae family. Such as...


Utricularia livida


The blue flowered form of Utricularia livida


Utricularia uniflora


seedgrown Utricularia calycifida from Gran Sabana, Venezuela


Utricularia sandersonii


Utricularia pubescens


Utricularia alpina is growing new leaves at the same time


It's root are growing out of the pot much sooner than I predicted


Genlisea violacea from Grao Mogol, Brazil.


Genlisea lobata x violacea

After So many plants from Lentibulariaceae family some pitchers.


Nepenthes ampullaria 'Brunei Red' x 'Harlequin'


Newest pitcher is only a bit smaller than those which plant had when it came to me. This pitcher is about 5 cm(2") high.


Nepenthes veitchii 'Golden Perisome' from Bario, Malaysia. The slowest growing Nepenthes that I own.


Nepenthes rafflesiana made it's largest pitcher so far. pitcher is 7 cm(2,7") high


Who said that Finland is cold all year rounf. During summer we can even grow Nepenthes x Ventrata outdoors. Pitcher is about 10 cm(4") high and is producing so much nectar that some of it drains on the floor. Plant has been growing outdoors since June.


Cephalotus follicularis baby plant received from CZ plants is showing some signs of growth.

Then my favourite plants. The sundews.

Starting with Drosera intermedia from Gran Sabana, Venezuela


Followed by Drosera adelae


Drosera spatulata var. lovellae 'Bloody Red'


From left to right Drosera capensis normal form and Drosera capensis red form.


Drosera aliceae


Young Drosera madagascariensis


Drosera neocaledonica slowly recovering


Drosera binata is vigorous psecies for me. Making tens of new leaves at the same time and even 2 flowerstalks.


Drosera paradoxa has grown longer leaves since I got it


Drosera burmannii is growing a flowerstalk

Thanks for reading my blog. Happy growing!