- Thu May 24, 2018 4:46 am
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Thanks SerMuncher.
The grower I received it from in trade was surprised by the amount of growth given the time frame as well. To be fair though, I spotted the little green bits when repotting maybe two or three weeks after I got it, so the growth surely began in the original growers conditions. His LEDs are clearly more intense and probably have a better spectrum than my little T5s just based on the coloration. We'll see how they fill in color wise. I do a pretty dilute weekly maxsea spray of every plant in my collection so maybe that helped it keep the growth it already had going.
Do you have location data or anything like that for your clone? I recently picked up another clone and the differences are pretty remarkable. The second plant is 'Geoff Wong' clone and looks much more like your plant in structure, size and coloration.
I kinda jumped into the section with both feet once the alpina flowered. I've also added a second humboldtii, jamesoniana, geminiloba, 'jitka' and humboldtii x alpina - all of which seem to be doing well and there's even new growth on the second humboldtii, geminiloba and jamesoniana. The only one that's giving me trouble is the 'jitka'. It's lost all but one leaf. Not sure what to do about that one and it's one of the more elusive as far as specific info. I switched it to a net pot to keep it a little drier and reduced the light a bit and increased the temps some. It seems to have stabilized but I'm still somewhat fretful. Haha. It's funny, my alpina did the same thing when I got it. It died back and I had pretty much given up on it and was going to use the pot for something else. When I started pulling the LFS out there was a giant tuber in there so I pushed everything back together and put it back where it was and now I can't get rid of it. Anyhow if you happen to be growing 'jitka' any tips would be appreciated.
Cheers,
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