Plant Mama

28/07/2022

12/05/2022

Any pothos can be a "giant" pothos with the right amount of sunlight. Just cut this off from one in the backyard. Didn't expect it will live in a pot but the new leaf is already much smaller. This would revert to regular size soon enough.

30/12/2021

Non CP plants muna - sharing the new leaf of my Dragonhead Philodendron. I acquired this 2-3mos ago with just 1 old leaf as a cutting and it now has 3, the 2nd leaf was half eaten though by locusts that also snacked on my pitcher plants 😭

18/11/2021

Scarlet Belles in bloom!

17/11/2021

Looks like an Utricularia warburgii but then it flowered and it seemed this is an Utricularia bifida.

What do you think?

05/11/2021

Another pot in that neglected tray is my daughter's compot. Seems the VFT planted here had died - literally nalusaw cos I can't find it. 😅

The good news is that the scarlet belle has grown humongous, bigger than any other pot of scarlet belle I have and it seems it's growing a flower bud!

Excited for this beauty.

05/11/2021

I have this tray that I've neglected.

First photo from June 2020 and second photo is current photo of one pot. These were compots with a either a D Tracyi or D Filiformis + D Binata and some strays like D Burmanniis or D Indicas.

I read the D tracyi and filiformis are perennial but they do require dormancy and dies back down into a hibernaculum or winter "bud". Since all my carni plants are 100% outdoors I really can't control the length of sun they get and it gets pretty dark and cloudy for days during rainy seasons, so I think that's what prompted all the "dead" filiformis and tracyi. Anyways, was cleaning the dead leaves and all pots have new growth. The D binata though that I have partnered with these "w**ds" were eradicated on some cases, possibly taken over by the overgrowth cos these two can really become a w**d!

So lesson learned, D filiformis and tracyi might be better in a solo pot than a communal one and yes, they go into dormancy.

02/11/2021

02/10/2021

I had a big tray of compot. Overgrown with utricularia warburgii and droseras. Then last week I was going to move it but the sunbaked plastic gave way and half of the content ended up on the floor. Had to quickly repot most of the 'em. Looks like they will be ok.

02/10/2021

Finally confirmed it! Here's an Utricularia Calycifida!

Ordering carni plants from the Pitcher-Plant farms have always gave me some sort of excitement. Multiple times I get unknown freebies that would sprout after a few weeks. I now have tons of Ultricularia Warburgii and these just sprouted from under the free droseras.

I've always wondered if this was another kind of bladderwort but I can't confirm. Multiple times I thought it would die, it's not prolific like warburgii.

Almost a year after it flowered and I can now confirm it's another bladderwort. https://pitcher-plants.com/buy/index.php/product/utricularia-calycifida/

27/09/2021

Just sharing our small front pocket garden roughly 2.5m x 1m 🥰

Space is not an issue. Having greenery lowers the ambient temperature and is just cool to the eyes! Stress reliever.

Can you name the plants?

02/09/2021

D Tracyi has taken over my growing area. I know I also potted some D Binata there and my Scarlet Belle has grown huuuuuge.

I gotta make time to repot these soon.