I'm so proud of myself.

I'm so proud of myself.#437259

By Intheswamp -  Tue Jul 04, 2023 1:49 am
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- Tue Jul 04, 2023 1:49 am #437259

Yesterday I was messing with my plants, I've still got plants in the trailer that NEED TO BE OUTSIDE but due to marauding chipmunks and squirrels and other things I've yet to build them a safe abode outdoors. Anyhow, I had two trays of sundews planted. It's been HOT down here in south Alabama and the old trailer will let you know it.

Anyhow, when I was watering things trying to at least give them a sip of water in their tortured state, I had a slight goof. I had two trays planted with drosera seeds...some spats and capensis. One tray is a half some spat seeds from my granddaughters now dearly departed spat. The other half of it is some Cal Carn x somethinganother capensis. The other tray contained some "mixed typical capensis" or something to the that effect. While I was pulling a large container of some filiformis leaf cuttings off the shelf it snagged the mixed cape tray. Oh well...

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Re: I'm so proud of myself.#437260

By Panman -  Tue Jul 04, 2023 1:53 am
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- Tue Jul 04, 2023 1:53 am #437260

Is like to say that has never happened to me, but I don't have any alabamensis or oreophila seedlings because of a similar situation.

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Re: I'm so proud of myself.#437261

By Intheswamp -  Tue Jul 04, 2023 2:09 am
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- Tue Jul 04, 2023 2:09 am #437261

Yeah. It was one of those "Huh?" moments. It's done, nothing to do about it...move on.<sigh> But, to be honest I think the heat has hurt propagation anyhow. Those D.regia I started and had a couple of green specks...gone.

I'm letting the regia cups ride it out but this heat isn't helping matters.

Re: I'm so proud of myself.#437267

By DragonsEye -  Tue Jul 04, 2023 2:37 pm
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- Tue Jul 04, 2023 2:37 pm #437267

Intheswamp wrote: ↑Tue Jul 04, 2023 1:49 amWhile I was pulling a large container of some filiformis leaf cuttings off the shelf it snagged the mixed cape tray. Oh well...

Well, you can't get much more " mixed" than that.

Seriously, anyone who has grown plants for any length of time has done something like that at least once, I suspect.

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Re: I'm so proud of myself.#437268

By Intheswamp -  Tue Jul 04, 2023 2:44 pm
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- Tue Jul 04, 2023 2:44 pm #437268

Well, I guess I can mark that one off of my bucket list!!!

Re: I'm so proud of myself.#437279

By Panman -  Tue Jul 04, 2023 5:56 pm
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- Tue Jul 04, 2023 5:56 pm #437279

DragonsEye wrote:anyone who has grown plants for any length of time has done something like that at least once

Emphasis on "at least". UV brittle pots have elicited more than one explicative from me.

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Re: I'm so proud of myself.#437288

By Bluefire -  Tue Jul 04, 2023 11:16 pm
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- Tue Jul 04, 2023 11:16 pm #437288

I have a cactus in a chipped terracotta pot because it fell off a shelf once - one branch broke. I've also had a number of seedlings blown down by the wind and scattered across the inhospitable astroturf. Poor little things.

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Re: I'm so proud of myself.#437303

By evenwind -  Wed Jul 05, 2023 12:49 pm
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- Wed Jul 05, 2023 12:49 pm #437303

I don't know why you guys wait until the seeds are planted? I much prefer tipping over the pot that contains my seed collection envelopes. That way I can scrape up contributions from 20 or so different species and/or locations. It makes a nice seed bank contribution of "mixed drosera - bulk".

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Re: I'm so proud of myself.#437304

By Panman -  Wed Jul 05, 2023 12:54 pm
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- Wed Jul 05, 2023 12:54 pm #437304

There was the time I was harvesting seeds and accidently added the intermedia pods into the filiformis envelope. Voila, a give away for mixed seeds.

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