New Utricularia and Pinguicula

Yesterday arrived P. moctezumae and U. geminiloba from Zlatokrt. Big plants in very good condition. Posting new blog post with photos soon.

U. asplundii and a flowering pygmy

Nothing more but a small update of two plants.



U. asplundii seeds received from Sebulon germinated quickly and the plants have even 3 leaves. They grow in mixture of peat and sand with some fine orchid bark. They have been growing in room temperature all time and I hope that this will make the most fittest plants to survive in my conditions. Can't wait till they are big enough to flower.



My own gemmae grown D. omissa x pulchella flowering is a nice sight.

For the next blog update I'm going to write about some of my stickier plants.

Focusing on epiphytic Utricularia

Epiphytic Utricularia are plants that I have gathered most during this spring. Before this spring and summer I cultivated only U. alpina, reniformis and nephrophylla. Later I got U. nelumbifolia, alpina x humboldtii, alpina x endresii and nelumbifolia x reniformis which I think are quite easy plants to grow. I also bought some seeds of U. apslundii which germinated and I will soon post a pic of the babies. Here is my collection of epiphytic Utricularia. U. nephrophylla from Serra dos Orgaos blooms regularly in my conditions and is very heat tolerant. U. nelumbifolia from Serra do Brigadeiro is a vigorous grower when I keep the water level near the soil level U. reniformis lost some of it's leaves when I took the plant outdoors. The leaves are a bit stronger now and there are already signs of increased growth thanks to higher light levels. By the first look U. alpina x endresii looks dead but underground tubers have not rotted. I still have high hopes on this plant. When U. nelumbifolia x reniformis arrived it had only one leaf which decayed short after it's arrival but after that plant showed it's hybrid vigor and is maybe the fastest growing of my epiphytes. The biggest leaf has some kind of hydrofobic surface which allows the waterdrops ro roll over the leaf. This is kinda weird characteristic which I have not seen on any carnivorous plant before. U. alpina x humboldtii looks first like it has done nothing since it arrived but after a long wait if finally started growing a new leaf. U. alpina didn't like it when I took it off the pot just to see it's "roots". I then repotted it to new sphagnum moss. Now the plant is growing new leaves again and hopefully I will see some flowers when the weather gets colder.

Greenhouse

Hello. I now have a greenhouse, or actually ma family has one. We build it up in the mid june and most of my plants have been growing there since then. Here are some results of the greenhouse cultivation in Finland. Flytrap is getting some nice colour. D. spatulata planted in snaps glass is blooming Drosera spatulata 'Bloody Red' showing some colour and blooming The mass bloom of U. livida 'Blue Flower Increased ammount of light has affected to colour of the U. livida 'Blue Flower''s leaves which have turned partially a bit salmon colourred Utricularia bisquamata flowering first time for me. For a while this plant seemed to be dying but then I took it to the greenhouse. First it conquered the whole pot and then made few nice flowerstalks.
Drosera tomatosa.. sorry Drosera tomentosa gained nice red as tomato colourration and looks like really thriving in the greenhouse.   Drosera regia seedlings. Mataveri from CPUK sent me about ten seeds of this species and luckily 2 seeds germinated. Drosera felix growing lots of flowerstalks but not looking too happy by the look of its leaves My Cryptanthus sp. grows nicely alongside with my Utricularia Drosera oclanceolata looks now a bit pinkish Drosera omissa x pulchella is the plant which changed my opinion about pygmy sundews. I used to think that they're not anything special or even cute. Not I'd like to have more but the growing space that I can offer to the plants is pretty much taken. A bug climbing on Sarracenia leaves. This bug later became food for the venus flytrap.