FlytrapCare Carnivorous Plant Forums

Jade wrote: ↑Tue Dec 10, 2024 5:46 pm If I can’t find the greenhouse covers for them at good prices I may just do the emergency blanket thing. Was that you or someone else that had that setup?

That was me with the emergency blankets, but that is more to reflect light and protect the walls than to increase humidity.

One thing I think helps is that I have a plastic grid that I sit inside the 1020 tray. I sit the nep pots on top of that, or hang them over it. I keep about 1/4 inch of water in the tray. It doesn't reach the pots, so I don't have to worry about rot.

Another thing I do is have a 1020 tray of live sphagnum and sit the pots on top of the moss. They seem to like that. I don't have any problems with root rot, but the plants do send roots out the bottom of the pots and try to root in the moss.

Jade wrote:Since it shoves its roots everywhere to make more plants what do I do if I get a hitchhiker in a pot I don’t want it in?

At that point, you keep digging it out until it disappears. I had binata Marston Dragons popping up all over the place from bits of root in a pot.

Oh yeah making it like a grow tent that’s right.

I had to look up 1020 tray lol. I keep meaning to buy some of those for seeds. I’m thinking about getting something like a plant stand that’s like a little ring the pot sits on that has little feet that sit in the tray. I feel like I have seen this…am I crazy? Have I seen this? If it’s not a plant stand what is it called?

That moss thing is a good idea. I have plants hanging out on the open bookshelf I have, and I’m trying to get something for humidity for that area. The gaps between the shelves aren’t big enough for anything tall really. I think if I can find a slightly larger than mini humidifier that works that might work better. I just have to test it probably.

At that point, you keep digging it out until it disappears. I had binata Marston Dragons popping up all over the place from bits of root in a pot.

I meant something else hold on I’ll draw a pic lol

They’re attached to each other by the root right or have I misunderstood? I figured cutting in the question mark area wherever that is outside the pots.

well I have been growing adelae for all of one day now, buuut....

when I went to separate the baby adelae from the mother plant, I used a plastic spoon to stab a circle around the leafspan. That was enough to cut whatever umbilical cord it had. Then i scooped it out and put it in a little cup. The cup is in a plastic sterilite tote with live sphag. That's my "terrarium". I have a plastic aquarium grid at the bottom so plants are not sitting directly in water. hope that helps

I am not good at this lol.

I mean if I have my current plant let’s say that’s plant A (the left one in the picture I drew), and that’s also in Pot A. Do do do do do! <——— Think this like a little nonsense tune that signifies the passage of time.) In a few months or however long, Plant A’s roots grow out of Pot A and creep into Pot B. Then Plant A’s roots grow up to the tippy top of the soil in Pot B and a new plant pops up at the end of Plant A’s root.

The plant at the end of the root is Plant B (the plant on the right in the above picture), and Plant B is in Pot B, but it’s still connected to Plant A in Pot A.

Well I decided that the Feng Shui is off here, so I need plant B to be in a new Pot which is Pot C. How can I separate A and B if the roots are connected? If I start removing Plant B it’s going to pull A down and potentially damage it right?

Think about like Bugs Bunny cartoons where you see him pull out one carrot from a row, but when he pulls on one you see the whole row get pulled under the soil and come out where he pulled the original carrot out because they’re all connected for some unknown reason. I’m pretty sure carrots aren’t actually connected like that?

But unless Plant A somehow puts out roots that aren’t connected to it wouldn’t that actually be a problem? And I mean obviously Plant A isn’t going to have an easy time like those carrots because instead of being pulled under the plant would just hang up on the soil in Pot A and probably rip A off the root at the base of Plant A… right?

So theoretically I should cut the root that connects Plant A to Plant B so that each plant has roots. I have to do this before unpotting Plant B to put it in my Pot C so that I don’t have any problems with damaging Plant A.

But is there something I don’t know about this that makes this cutting the root where it connects the two plants (I guess technically because they’re connected it would be one plant, but I think you might know what I mean by two?) a bad thing to do?

Anyhoo I’ve never been in a situation where cutting healthy roots seemed like the best option. I didn’t know if that’s how people handled them or if I’m missing some painfully obvious other way to “cut the cord” as it were.

I think I messed up asking my silly girl question before and people now have a mental picture I didn’t mean to imply. For me it’s really hard to think around a picture once I have it so if anything is unclear feel free to ask.

measure the leafspan of each plant, then split the root proportionally to the plant sizes.

...seriously though, i don't think it matters that much. cut it anywhere, they will grow new roots

If it were me I would cut dead center and then if long enough lop off an inch or so from each and drop in test tube filled with distilled water.

andynorth wrote: ↑Wed Dec 11, 2024 5:51 pm If it were me I would cut dead center and then if long enough lop off an inch or so from each and drop in test tube filled with distilled water.

No need for the test tube. Just lay it on the soil and cover it with a bit of sphagnum.

Panman wrote: ↑Wed Dec 11, 2024 5:56 pm

andynorth wrote: ↑Wed Dec 11, 2024 5:51 pm

No need for the test tube. Just lay it on the soil and cover it with a bit of sphagnum.

Yes, I did fail to mention that.
I put almost everything in test tubes these days as it is easier for me to keep track/label. I have various starts growing out of most all my pots in my indoor greenhouse. Many Multifida "T" Binata extreme from your mother plant. Test tubes fit nicely in rack in my grow tent so it is more a space thing for me.

Thank you guys for the answers and being patient enough to keep reading my explanations lol. I thought it would be bad for the plant to cut the roots at all hence my apprehension.

And I didn’t even think about using it for propagation so thanks for that suggestion and the advice as well y’all.