do you grow P.villosa

[jeff]

know you P.villosa ?

you grow this ping?

jeff

[andreas]

No, unfortunately! Do you?

(Errr....I mean: Yes, I know the species! )

I´d like to try it if I´d know where to obtain plants or seeds.

Greetings,

Andy

[jeff]

you know peter HARBATH in germany , he have

here are a few years I tried to cultivate this plant but unfortunately without successes, it grow in foam and according to the condition of Arctic north .

my friend eric PARTRAT in france try to grow also this plant actually.

[epbb]

I have the feeling that I could succeed in now despiet a very bad experience.

A very large box full of live sphagnum moss in half sun (sun in the morning only)


The plants are grow in dead sphagnum from Chili that is not submerging the plants.

Here are close up of the plants :




One morning, some blackbirds made a desaster looking for moss for its nests. I only found one plant on the third in the grasses in my garden, the only one without flowers.
The only remaining plants did its hibernaculum few weeks ago and it is stored now in my refrigerator for months.
I will keep you updated.

[andreas]

Looks like it could be advantageous to move to Spitzbergen to grow P. villosa! ;D Or perhaps buying a small fridge with a glass lid...

Yes, I know Peter Harbarth. I ordered some Pings from him once. I´ll do so again maybe next year. In my new flat I´ll try P. medusina and P. immaculata again and will try P. antarctica. There has to be a way to succeed!

Salut,

Andreas

BTW: ERIC, do you also grow Pinguicula elongata?

[epbb]

Hi Andreas,

I am not yet growing P. elongata because too expensive for me yet . I wait for a huge discount...

I still have place for P. elongata and P. chilensis (the plants from Czplants or bestcarnivorousplants.com labelled like this were a mistake unfortunately (P. antarctica ). Peter is the only true source (with Oliver Gluch) of P. chilensis.

I grow P. antarctica with success see below.

P. antarctica :
The big box with grasses in full sun from morning to late afternoon


The oldest plant


This plant flowered few month ago with a single flower and set seeds


The other plant with a new produced plant (by stolons like P. alpina)


I put the plants in my garage during the coldest tempertaure (below -5°C) because I have not a lot of plants yet. I will try all year round outside when the plants will be more numerous.

[Brian Barnes]

Hello Friends,

Wow...those look almost like our P. pumila here in the US.... ;D

Also, you grow them very wet, like I do my P. planifolia. Very good! ;D

Nice Pinguicula...

Brian.