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My Marston Dragon is being relentless with the flower scapes. They keep coming back nearly as fast as I can snip them off, is this to do with something Im doing or is this a character of this cultivar?


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aarolar wrote:My Marston Dragon is being relentless with the flower scapes. They keep coming back nearly as fast as I can snip them off, is this to do with something Im doing or is this a character of this cultivar?

Marston Dragon is a fairly desirable clone of D. binata. It was developed by Adrian Slack many years ago.

You can clone this plant from flower scape cuttings.
When the emerging flower scape is about two inches tall, cut it off and throw it into a jar of distilled water. In about one month, you should have plantlets. In two months, you should have rooted plants. These can be sold or treaded for other species of CP.

Good growing,
Mike

The flower scales are not going to hurt anything. It wants to bloom; let it bloom.


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aarolar,
Next time it throws up a scape, cut it off at 2 inches tall, put in in moist paper towel, in a ziploc bag and mail it to me in a puffy envelope.

I'll grow a new plant from it.

I'll reimburse you for postage and material.

Interested?

Thank you either way.

Good growing,
Mike

Bob Beer wrote:The flower scales are not going to hurt anything. It wants to bloom; let it bloom.


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I know but its a fairly new plant to me and i dont want it wasting all that energy on flowering.

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It's a bit of a myth actually. Flower stems are green and they also photosynthesize after all. Seed production does take a little more but without cross-pollination that's not going to happen. If it's set on blooming, letting a couple bloom will take less energy than cutting them and having it regrow them over and over.


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Isn't 'Marston Dragon' sterile anyway?

slinx wrote:Isn't 'Marston Dragon' sterile anyway?

It seems so. Most binata complex plants are also self-incompatible.


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