Last year I bought my first two flasks - Paph. vietnamense and Paph. druryi. Now I've repotted both for the first time.
The vietnamense are doing great, very fat hairy roots, lots of them, and with active rot growth.
The druryi are not doing that well, unfortunately. A few have nice roots, but most of them have only few and thin roots. There were about a handful of seedlings that easily grew twice as fast as the rest. They were double the size of the rest and then they all died in a span of a few weeks, the leaves started to rot, starting from the tips and the new emerging leaves were yellow. I have no idea what caused this. It was only the big, fast growing seedlings that died, the smaller ones are all still alive. Does anyone have an idea what could have caused the big ones to die?
I'm keeping the druryis a bit dryer than the vietnamense, since I found that they rot more easily.
Anyway, here's some pics.
vietnamense, about 13 months out of flask:
The remaining druryis, about 10 months out of flask:
Since I'm still basically a beginner and most here are vastly more experienced growers than me, how would you say these seedlings are doing, considering how long they've been deflasked? And any ideas for what I could do to get the druryis to grow better?
Thanks!
The vietnamense are doing great, very fat hairy roots, lots of them, and with active rot growth.
The druryi are not doing that well, unfortunately. A few have nice roots, but most of them have only few and thin roots. There were about a handful of seedlings that easily grew twice as fast as the rest. They were double the size of the rest and then they all died in a span of a few weeks, the leaves started to rot, starting from the tips and the new emerging leaves were yellow. I have no idea what caused this. It was only the big, fast growing seedlings that died, the smaller ones are all still alive. Does anyone have an idea what could have caused the big ones to die?
I'm keeping the druryis a bit dryer than the vietnamense, since I found that they rot more easily.
Anyway, here's some pics.
vietnamense, about 13 months out of flask:
The remaining druryis, about 10 months out of flask:
Since I'm still basically a beginner and most here are vastly more experienced growers than me, how would you say these seedlings are doing, considering how long they've been deflasked? And any ideas for what I could do to get the druryis to grow better?
Thanks!