Flower (stalk) garden

Flower (stalk) garden#261775

By hollyhock -  Tue May 03, 2016 8:30 pm
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- Tue May 03, 2016 8:30 pm #261775

The easiest way to grow new plants is to cut your flower stalks and forget about it. My vfts had a freezing episode in early spring, (still all in a little rough condition) so my decision was to forego flowering and just hope for stalk propagation...wish me luck...

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Re: Flower (stalk) garden#261783

By Matt -  Tue May 03, 2016 9:23 pm
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- Tue May 03, 2016 9:23 pm #261783

That's pretty funny looking

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Re: Flower (stalk) garden#261787

By hollyhock -  Wed May 04, 2016 12:23 am
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- Wed May 04, 2016 12:23 am #261787

Looks like baby asparagus...

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Re: Flower (stalk) garden#261791

By ironcore21 -  Wed May 04, 2016 1:08 am
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- Wed May 04, 2016 1:08 am #261791

Nice , good luck ! Quick question how long does it usually take for a flower stalk to produce a plantlet and can you cut a long stem and plant each piece to get more plants?

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Re: Flower (stalk) garden#261806

By SFLguy -  Wed May 04, 2016 5:09 am
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- Wed May 04, 2016 5:09 am #261806

ironcore21 wrote:Nice , good luck ! Quick question how long does it usually take for a flower stalk to produce a plantlet and can you cut a long stem and plant each piece to get more plants?

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Second question, yes cut them into 1" / 1.5" pieces
First question, anywhere from a week to a month and a half I'd say?

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Re: Flower (stalk) garden#261816

By hollyhock -  Wed May 04, 2016 10:27 am
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- Wed May 04, 2016 10:27 am #261816

I agree with SFLguy...

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Re: Flower (stalk) garden#261849

By ironcore21 -  Thu May 05, 2016 12:28 am
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- Thu May 05, 2016 12:28 am #261849

Awesome good to know thanks !

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Re: Flower (stalk) garden#267249

By hollyhock -  Wed Jul 06, 2016 2:25 pm
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- Wed Jul 06, 2016 2:25 pm #267249

Update...Here they come

My flower stalks are now little vfts...

Advice is this be patient and they will grow....Never rush a stalk ....

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Re: Flower (stalk) garden#267270

By SFLguy -  Wed Jul 06, 2016 4:29 pm
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- Wed Jul 06, 2016 4:29 pm #267270

Very nice!

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Re: Flower (stalk) garden#267271

By pieguy452 -  Wed Jul 06, 2016 4:50 pm
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- Wed Jul 06, 2016 4:50 pm #267271

Wow awesome, looks like a total success!!!

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Re: Flower (stalk) garden#267277

By hollyhock -  Wed Jul 06, 2016 5:17 pm
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- Wed Jul 06, 2016 5:17 pm #267277

It does take 4-6 weeks and sometimes even a little longer.. A few haven't started yet but I still leave them in the pot.

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Re: Flower (stalk) garden#267282

By Big-Jack -  Wed Jul 06, 2016 5:48 pm
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- Wed Jul 06, 2016 5:48 pm #267282

So I take it that these flower stalk plants are genetically the same age as the parent plant and once established will grow adult sized traps?

If so that is much better than screwing around for several years nursing seedlings along waiting for them to grow into adult plants.

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Re: Flower (stalk) garden#267283

By hollyhock -  Wed Jul 06, 2016 6:04 pm
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- Wed Jul 06, 2016 6:04 pm #267283

That's a very good question... I'm not sure how that works as far as the age of the new plants started from stalks... I just thought it was like cloning... I agree that they do grow larger a lot quicker than seeds....

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Re: Flower (stalk) garden#267286

By Matt -  Wed Jul 06, 2016 6:26 pm
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- Wed Jul 06, 2016 6:26 pm #267286

Venus flytraps formed from flower stalks are exact genetic clones of the parent plant. But age is largely irrelevant when it comes to flytraps other than those started from seed. Once a plant is an adult, it can divide many times and produce small genetically identical divisions for which "age" has no relevance.

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Re: Flower (stalk) garden#267289

By hollyhock -  Wed Jul 06, 2016 6:52 pm
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- Wed Jul 06, 2016 6:52 pm #267289

Now I wish I knew which stalk was which... King Henry, dentate, typical, all flowered this year and I took stalk cuttings...Oh well just have to wait and see....

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