By michijake -
Location: Northern Virginia, USA (Zone 7b)
Posts: 140
Joined: Mon May 17, 2021 1:36 am
Location: Northern Virginia, USA (Zone 7b)
Posts: 140
Joined: Mon May 17, 2021 1:36 am
- Wed May 04, 2022 2:09 am
#409974
I've been having a lot of fun with one of my VFT propagation experiments recently and wanted to share. One of my typicals started making a flower stalk late last summer, so I snipped it and put it in sphagnum moss, hoping to propagate it. Not only did it strike, but on January 5 I discovered that the stalk had also produced false vivipary, months after snipping it from the plant!
I removed the false vivipary and planted it in the sphagnum as well. Apparently it was not content to just grow its tiny self into a mature plant, it decided to just go ahead and make the tiniest flower stalk I had ever seen on February 10: As adorable as it tiny, tiny flowers would have been, I didn't think it was a good idea to let such a wee plant use that much energy, no matter how precocious it considered itself. I did however figure I might as well try propagating it.
And whaddya know, the tiniest flower stalk has struck, and is now growing an even smaller VFT! Where will it all end???
I removed the false vivipary and planted it in the sphagnum as well. Apparently it was not content to just grow its tiny self into a mature plant, it decided to just go ahead and make the tiniest flower stalk I had ever seen on February 10: As adorable as it tiny, tiny flowers would have been, I didn't think it was a good idea to let such a wee plant use that much energy, no matter how precocious it considered itself. I did however figure I might as well try propagating it.
And whaddya know, the tiniest flower stalk has struck, and is now growing an even smaller VFT! Where will it all end???