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Hi anyone know how to grow a Pinguicula Primuliflora i have one growing in about 2-2-1/2 hours of direct sunlight in an east window a day and indirect sunlight for the rest of the day it is growing in spagnuhm moss and i give it distteled water anyone know if i am doing anytthing wrong if i am correct me by any means. Thanks.

Primuliflora is a warm-temperate ping. They are self-fertile but the flowers rarely self-pollinate; you can pollinate a plants flower with another flower from the same plant.

Check the care guides and info articles:

http://www.pinguicula.org/A_world_of_Pi ... iflora.htm
http://www.carnivorousplants.org/seedba ... rmTemp.htm
http://icps.proboards.com/index.cgi?boa ... thread=829
http://www.iscanmyfood.com/hd/index.php ... imuliflora

I had a ping from that group... Pinguicula lutea and I found it a very tricky plant to grow for me, I lost them because they were supposed to have more water - friends told me this group likes to have the soil wet... one guy on the polish forums keeps P. primuliflora with great success, they're flowering I'd ask him for the growing conditions he's got

Peter

moof wrote:I had a ping from that group... Pinguicula lutea and I found it a very tricky plant to grow for me, I lost them because they were supposed to have more water - friends told me this group likes to have the soil wet... one guy on the polish forums keeps P. primuliflora with great success, they're flowering I'd ask him for the growing conditions he's got

Peter

You're right - warm temperates do require more water than most other types, I retract.

OK so here's the info I gathered... It likes high humidity, no direct sunlight, the usual room temperatures are OK, as for the soil mix - peat moss and silica sand 1:1. Water should be kept in the tray for all the time, in nature this species gets even flooded sometimes.

Peter

Like moth orchids I am a Pinguicula primuliflora killer. Can't grow them for crap!

I hope to grow mine when I get them like this, this is P. planifolia, close relative of prim.
Pretty much what moof said.
P. primuliflora, P. planifolia, and P. ionatha are known to submerge in water during the summer. Some people do this so they don't melt in the 90F temperatures that they get. I hope to do this with my plants(when they get here) to experiment. Fun!
BTW, the other three of the Southeastern Warm-Temperate Pinguicula, aka lutea, caerula, and pumila, don't like that much water as their 3 other cousins(ionatha, primuliflora, and planifolia). All pretty nonetheless and I love them so, probably the only pings I would like to have in my collection.
P. primuliflora, ionatha, planifolia, caerula, lutea, and pumila forever! LOL.

My friend has got P.pumila and says it likes to be kept wet too! And my P.lutea died propably because the lack of water and too much heat (direct sunlight). I must say this group of pings is the most fascinating and beautiful one! These are some great plants you have in US.

for me and my condition,Mexican Ping are the most hardest to grow bcoz it afraid of heat and rain.only grow best under lights.Ping Primuliflora is the easiest.breeds fast,stands heat,likes water,humidity.

moof wrote:My friend has got P.pumila and says it likes to be kept wet too! And my P.lutea died propably because the lack of water and too much heat (direct sunlight). I must say this group of pings is the most fascinating and beautiful one! These are some great plants you have in US.

Yeah, they do love their water! I meant that they don't like being up to the top with water like P. planifolia, yet still wet.