Here’s my little set-up! Seeing all the current F.S. delenatii albino plants in Europe, I remembered this post right here, and decided to try myself. I’ll talk you through the pictures, and my ideas behind how I dealt with handling this “trial”.
These picture show the seedlings just hours after I found (and bought) them. Good-looking youngsters, I felt. Knowing normal delenatii from sowing I know they can have a tendency to stealth, which basically comes down to sowing techniques.
These plants here have the same problem, which I’m overcoming by removing all “Stem-covering-leafs”, that are not helping the plant by sending it into bonsai-shape. I need these stems to start rooting. Even now, as a seedling these plants force me into using lager containers than I normally would have.
This is after first inspection (and yes, we do have some (if few) very woolly guest!!!) and sorting into 2 groups of strong, and even stronger plants.
Next up is compost composition. Now, I did not copy the paphmans way, but took onboard what he said, and slightly tweaked things around my remaining collection, as well as paying credit to my “stealth-problem”. What you see here is a mix containing a shredded CHC or cocofiber/cork base, perlite as well as some vermiculite, crushed oyster shells some seramis. The nature of my remaining collection dictates frequent watering, so I had to keep my version a bit more on the “nice and airy side”.
All mixed up!
As mentioned all these plants are slightly over-potted, plus set rather sunk into their pots. I’m hoping to buy them some more time for proper rooting as well as give the time for at least 2 new leafs before re-potting into a more coarse mixture. My focus right now is very much on getting these stems to root properly. For the fun of it, and to later compare I potted half of them in plastic, the other half in clay pots.
And there you have it! May the force be with us!!!
I’ll get back to you once I have found them a decent spot in the conservatory and murdered these unwanted little white woollies.