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OrchidKrazy
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 Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2010 10:14 pm Post subject: Disa chrysostachya seedling. |
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After 2 long yrs of waiting, I finally received one Disa chrysostachya seedling from the Troy Meyers Conservatory.
And man, am I mad!
I have left instructions for him, and I felt they were completely ignored.
Worse thing is I can't do diddly squat about it.
The details of my dealings aren't important now. The damage was done. 
So here're the pics of my rootless seedling:
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I trimmed the dead leaf tips, a sign of root damage or root loss in Disas.
The chopstick is used to prop the plant up.
It's in a pot with rooting gel. :x |
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OrchidKrazy
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| Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2010 10:16 pm Post subject: |
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I'm open to any suggestions or comments anyone here has.
Thank you in advanced.
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Terra_Australis
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That sucks  I hope you didn't empty your wallet for it...
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OrchidKrazy
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| Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2010 4:30 am Post subject: |
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Costs I incurred:
$20 USD for the plant
Roughly $10 for the shipping
Roughly $16 for a 6 pack of rooting gel
Grand total of:
$46 USD for one questionable seedling!!! 
Worse thing is some of my instructions were not heeded!
And they were simple!
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Terra_Australis
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Bugger
Hopefully it won't be for nothing!
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| Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 10:29 am Post subject: |
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Sorry to say that but I'd be very surprised and thrilled if that roots. I think your best bet is to treat it as any rootless cutting: reduce the leaves so there's less are of transpiration, get the top of the plant in as high humidity as possible (a clear plastic bag around it would be the most basic method) and try and create a differential in temperature between a cool top and a warmer base around the rooting gel. I'll keep my fingers crossed.
I don't even want to imagine how upsetting that is after such anticipation. Good luck.
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OrchidKrazy
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| Anonymous wrote: | Sorry to say that but I'd be very surprised and thrilled if that roots. I think your best bet is to treat it as any rootless cutting: reduce the leaves so there's less are of transpiration, get the top of the plant in as high humidity as possible (a clear plastic bag around it would be the most basic method) and try and create a differential in temperature between a cool top and a warmer base around the rooting gel. I'll keep my fingers crossed.
I don't even want to imagine how upsetting that is after such anticipation. Good luck. |
Thank you.
If anything good comes out of it, I'll post a pic (it might take a year).
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larsb
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| Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2010 10:32 am Post subject: |
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I've had plants that looked like that and i've rescued some by putting them in live spaghnum moss. They can develop small new plantsaround tha base where the roots used to be. I've never seen one that had lsot all roots, set new roots.
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OrchidKrazy
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I just potted the thing up in a real pot with the actual potting media I will be using for the duration of the plant's life, yesterday.
The little shoot is making new leaves, but I'm still weary of whether it will pull through. The entire old shoot is almost gone.
Thank you, Lars.
If this plant continues to grow to a size where I can take a good photo, I'll post it here.
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OrchidKrazy
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Disa chrysostachya didn't make it.
Old shoot died back rapidly.
New shoot only grew two leaves with one new one emerging.
No tubers.
No roots.
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