These seedlings are from Mike Tibbs at the Exotic plant company in Holland and are a sibbing of two tetraploid clones of Lovely Lynne. It’s always a bit of a punt for me with seedling phrags. The last lot all rotted and died.
I potted these up as a clump after removing what agar I could under the tap. The base of the tray is bark, topped with sphagnum. They were put under a set of T5 lights (16hour days) for a few months and grew well. I didn’t cover them much at all with the plastic dome. Water was the usual rain water plus rain mix I use for the adults.
The third photo shows the root growth when I decided to repot the group.
They are now in a normal sized seed tray. I thought that this might work after seeing Tom’s phrag besseae growing so well in trays.
The base of the compost is leca and the topping is mini rockwool cubes. It is very open. They are still under the lights and receiving the same feed. The moss growth is just getting going. The leaves of some of the seedlings are a bit yellow, may be from the amount of light or it may just be that they need time to settle down.
The largest seedling in the bottom left is 12 cm across. I have used a seed tray with no holes in the bottom. When I water I just drain off any excess by tipping up the whole tray and pouring off in one corner.
It’s looks like there are about 25 seedlings still alive and growing quite quickly. I need to make some room!
David
I potted these up as a clump after removing what agar I could under the tap. The base of the tray is bark, topped with sphagnum. They were put under a set of T5 lights (16hour days) for a few months and grew well. I didn’t cover them much at all with the plastic dome. Water was the usual rain water plus rain mix I use for the adults.
The third photo shows the root growth when I decided to repot the group.
They are now in a normal sized seed tray. I thought that this might work after seeing Tom’s phrag besseae growing so well in trays.
The base of the compost is leca and the topping is mini rockwool cubes. It is very open. They are still under the lights and receiving the same feed. The moss growth is just getting going. The leaves of some of the seedlings are a bit yellow, may be from the amount of light or it may just be that they need time to settle down.
The largest seedling in the bottom left is 12 cm across. I have used a seed tray with no holes in the bottom. When I water I just drain off any excess by tipping up the whole tray and pouring off in one corner.
It’s looks like there are about 25 seedlings still alive and growing quite quickly. I need to make some room!
David
