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Re: What is your favorite cultivar?
Posted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 9:11 pm
by ModeratelyExcessive
moof wrote:That's sure a great-looking plant, it reminds me a bit of the "H" and "Z" clones from Czech Republic:
http://www.bestcarnivorousplants.com/di ... clones.htm
Very nice one, would like to have it in my collection
Ooh, thanks for pointing those out! I gotta get me some!
Re: What is your favorite cultivar?
Posted: Sun Nov 01, 2009 1:37 pm
by moof
No problem:) You should be quiet about choosing one of them, tough. Some of them are hard to grow, I had grown more than 100 of various clones from Czech Republic once (I were selling them in Poland) and had big losses at start because they were fresh TC plants, and some of them were delicate even several months later.
Re: What is your favorite cultivar?
Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 10:45 pm
by goldslinger
RED PIRAHNA, BABY !
Re: What is your favorite cultivar?
Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 12:05 am
by lemonlily
*Gasps* That looks like a B52-ish and it has teeth like my Dente!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Re: What is your favorite cultivar?
Posted: Sun Nov 08, 2009 5:22 am
by dionaea muscipula
simple answer to mine: any VFT that has huge traps will do 4 me
Re: What is your favorite cultivar?
Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2009 2:50 am
by lemonlily
Me too! And my dad complains about the traps of my plant being small..............
LOLOLOL.
Re: What is your favorite cultivar?
Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 1:06 am
by Pickles6
the low giant, Akai Ryu, and typical. Those are my favorites. The red VFT's are so pretty!
Re: What is your favorite cultivar?
Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 1:07 am
by Matt
Pickles6 wrote:The red VFT's are so pretty!
Amen to that!
Re: What is your favorite cultivar?
Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 1:27 am
by kittyklaws
I'd like to grow some big meancing ones
so i'm guessing my favorite would be the B52, that's the cultivar with the largest traps, right?
Re: What is your favorite cultivar?
Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 1:57 am
by Matt
Yep, B52 is supposed to have the largest traps, but there are quite a few cultivars with traps that are very similar in size.
I'm hoping to start a Dionaea breeding program to try to get some desirable clones. One I'd like to see is a red plant with traps as large as a B52!
Re: What is your favorite cultivar?
Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 6:12 pm
by Pickles6
Oooh, that would be cool to get a red VFT with giant traps. Soon you could get them to eat people!
Just kidding.
Re: What is your favorite cultivar?
Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 8:47 pm
by lemonlily
How would you get them really big?
Re: What is your favorite cultivar?
Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2009 2:12 am
by Matt
lemonlily wrote:How would you get them really big?
Through selective breeding. If you keep crossing red colored fly traps with other large fly traps (red or green) and select out the babies that are red with the largest traps and then subsequently breed them again with large trapped plants, one can produce a large-trapped red flytrap (hopefully).
Re: What is your favorite cultivar?
Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2009 2:24 am
by kittyklaws
isn't that like inbreeding?... *shudders*
Re: What is your favorite cultivar?
Posted: Thu Dec 31, 2009 2:24 am
by lemonlily
Well you probably will get some red large trapped plants but the rest will be green, lol. I imagine most, actually.
LOLOLOL.
so i'm guessing my favorite would be the B52, that's the cultivar with the largest traps, right?
Just kidding.
isn't that like inbreeding?... *shudders*