Flytraps acclimating from tissue culture
Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2012 6:18 am
Hi forum members,
I purchased some tissue cultures from FTS International and wanted to show you how the plants are acclimating.
I am growing my plants indoors using plant-LED lamps. In winter, my room is about 24 degrees Celcius and 40% in humidity. I live in South Korea and the coldest day in last week was -17 degrees Celcius (=1.4 degrees Fahrenheit).
These are the plants when they first arrived to me on 9th january.
The Big Mouth was in a flask and they were so many!
Here is the Big Mouth again after about 15 days. This plant does not look good right now because I put a plastic bag on it after two days of potting when I received them. Many leaves were lost due to low humidity for that two days. The rest of the plants look better because I put plastic bag on them to increase humidity without any delay thanks to Matt.
Here is Green Dragon. For each growing points, there are 3~4 new leaves since I potted them. The new leaves are growing so red that I cannot compare it to Red Dragon (Akai Ryu). I was expecting some greener margin or so but till now they are so identical. However, I am happy they are growing faster than typical red plants. Here is the famous B52. It had larger traps compared to the Big Mouth and Green Dragon even when it was inside the tube. Here is the A2 which is little brother of B52. Actually these were really growing too well in few days that I had repotted to divide them into different pots again. Can you believe that a plant just out of TC repotted two times in four weeks look like this? I have never seen a flytrap so vigorous like this one. some growing points already put out up to 5 new traps. The next plant is another amazing one called DC XL. It is as vigorous as the A2 and I can't compare which one is more vigorous yet. Many growing points have put out as many as 4~5 new open traps after they were potted. Also, as you can see in the picture, the traps are getting larger each time significantly. I don't know if Matt has applied different hormone ratios when they were in TC but it had so large root system compared to other varieties even when they were inside the tube as a tissue culture. Compared to B52 and A2, the vigrousness of DC XL seems to come from the power to grow large root system quickly. B52 seems to grow large upper parts regardless of the roots. When B52 was inside the tube, it had tiny roots compared to the upper green parts.
I added this plant because I think it is not well known to you. It is called Red-Green. I bought it from Jang Gi-Won who also developed the Korean Melody Shark. It has relatively short petioles, thin and long red teeth and the traps are currently about an inch in size. It was the most vigorous plant before I received tissue cultures from FTS. For example, I had experiemented my plants by trying so many different kind of fertilizers, enzymes and hormones. This is the only cultivar that was not affected by so many repotting and so many chemicals. Other cultivars such as Fuzzy Tooth and South-West Giants do not even have a normal-shaped traps at the same condition. The margins of petioles and traps become black when they are polluted by chemicals and minerals but this Red-Green does not show significant loss.
By the way, all my plants are currently skipping dormancy.
I purchased some tissue cultures from FTS International and wanted to show you how the plants are acclimating.
I am growing my plants indoors using plant-LED lamps. In winter, my room is about 24 degrees Celcius and 40% in humidity. I live in South Korea and the coldest day in last week was -17 degrees Celcius (=1.4 degrees Fahrenheit).
These are the plants when they first arrived to me on 9th january.
The Big Mouth was in a flask and they were so many!
Here is the Big Mouth again after about 15 days. This plant does not look good right now because I put a plastic bag on it after two days of potting when I received them. Many leaves were lost due to low humidity for that two days. The rest of the plants look better because I put plastic bag on them to increase humidity without any delay thanks to Matt.
Here is Green Dragon. For each growing points, there are 3~4 new leaves since I potted them. The new leaves are growing so red that I cannot compare it to Red Dragon (Akai Ryu). I was expecting some greener margin or so but till now they are so identical. However, I am happy they are growing faster than typical red plants. Here is the famous B52. It had larger traps compared to the Big Mouth and Green Dragon even when it was inside the tube. Here is the A2 which is little brother of B52. Actually these were really growing too well in few days that I had repotted to divide them into different pots again. Can you believe that a plant just out of TC repotted two times in four weeks look like this? I have never seen a flytrap so vigorous like this one. some growing points already put out up to 5 new traps. The next plant is another amazing one called DC XL. It is as vigorous as the A2 and I can't compare which one is more vigorous yet. Many growing points have put out as many as 4~5 new open traps after they were potted. Also, as you can see in the picture, the traps are getting larger each time significantly. I don't know if Matt has applied different hormone ratios when they were in TC but it had so large root system compared to other varieties even when they were inside the tube as a tissue culture. Compared to B52 and A2, the vigrousness of DC XL seems to come from the power to grow large root system quickly. B52 seems to grow large upper parts regardless of the roots. When B52 was inside the tube, it had tiny roots compared to the upper green parts.
I added this plant because I think it is not well known to you. It is called Red-Green. I bought it from Jang Gi-Won who also developed the Korean Melody Shark. It has relatively short petioles, thin and long red teeth and the traps are currently about an inch in size. It was the most vigorous plant before I received tissue cultures from FTS. For example, I had experiemented my plants by trying so many different kind of fertilizers, enzymes and hormones. This is the only cultivar that was not affected by so many repotting and so many chemicals. Other cultivars such as Fuzzy Tooth and South-West Giants do not even have a normal-shaped traps at the same condition. The margins of petioles and traps become black when they are polluted by chemicals and minerals but this Red-Green does not show significant loss.
By the way, all my plants are currently skipping dormancy.