gejala pokok | symptomatic trees

The weather’s been pretty moody the past two weeks. There’s been a lot of rain and watering the plant’s been less frequent.

Our drosera burmanii that’s flowering is bending itself away from the plant to search for sun. Heh. Looks pretty funny actually…

Here’s the spatulata..

Pretty isn’t it?

Something strange is happening to my hydrangea.

The flower and leaves look sickly and its not suppose to look like this…Bizarro.

Updates on the gloxinia. Here’s how it looks about a month and a half ago.

And now…

Haven’t updated my gardening log in a long time. Here goes…

Here’s the Byblis Liniflora that germinated on the 27th May 2007 - this is day 12

The top that was covered with cling wrap is completely off now. They are growing fast and they look pretty healthy.

Next is the Drosera Burmanii that was infested with aphids not to long ago. It was planted in a container full of distilled water for about 24 hours to kill/drown the aphids. In return, the burmanii didnt look too happy. Its been 3 weeks now since the ‘drowning’ incident, and its flowering.

I’ve never collected seeds or know how to do it. Got some advice from Pet Pitchers forum members. But will need to do more research on this.

Our Drosera Spatulata is also flowering.

It has grown so much bigger since when we first got it. Must be all the daytime snacks its been having.

Speaking of snacking…check out what I found this morning in a two of the traps on one of our venus fly traps.

Yucks. Heh.

And here’s the drosera intermedia that was given to us about a month ago..

Yay! Its nice to know that they’re all well. Despite my lack of presence the past few weeks.

Now over to the non-CPs…

My gloxinia in a jar..I still have not gathered any courage to plant it yet. Eeeks. Its been 8 weeks now and here it is…

Woah…it looks so so kool. I don’t even know how to plant it now. Any advice anyone?

Oh and the african violet that was propagated the same time as the gloxinia looks like this

Heh. Well…as our mind gets distracted and focuses on other things. Life goes on…people move on. Nothing waits for you. They just grow and grow…and then ‘boom’.

After spending a few days in Bangkok, all i could do as soon as we landed, was thinking about my plants. Worry worry worry.

Some updates on the gloxinia after being in the water for about 7 weeks. Small leaves can be seen around the bulge.

I’m going to plant this soon. Looks like its ready.

Apart from that, my other gloxinias which I cut, propagated and saved from the mother plant that was killed during a storm one day - are doing very very well. New leaves are coming out…

Sigh….the carnivorous plants on the other hand…the sundew, the leaves at the bottom are bleaching. Maybe its too hot? We moved it, from indoor to outdoor, maybe thats it? Ah well, whatever it is, its back indoors now under the flourescent light where it usually is. And its perking up..is that normal?

And the intermedia are not growing tentacles. I don’t know why…

The venus fly trap that gets full sun everyday is very very happy.

Need to consult the forum, my CP regulars, mutant hybrid or the pet pitchers on the condition of the sundew.

Woke up to an awesome weather! Finally after many many days of unbearable heat, it finally rained. Yahoo!

So took a photo of my gloxinia this morning. Here’s how it looks like after about 6 weeks of being in the water…

Is it time to plant it yet?

And the african violet finally decided to  start rooting…

My jasmine is budding quite a lot.

Oh and remember my bryophyllum that i got from my colleague? Its only been 2 and a half weeks. And here’s how it looks now…

They look like little midget monsters. Weirdly pretty…

And my ajuga, also been doing nothing but bloom bloom and bloom.. Must be all the sun and heat.

Finally, before i forget, we finally got our sundews! Not one, not two, but THREE CPs (and some seeds)!!! All from David, the awesome generous dude behind Pet Pitcher. Visited his place last night and it was truly truly remarkable. Pokok Penyu will write a full commentary on the trip.

But here’s a sneak peak on what we got..

All i can say is that we love love luurrve CPs and Pet Pitcher roxs!!

I’m a little unsure when i should properly plant this. Its been 4 weeks and it still looks fragile.  I think i should wait a couple more weeks…i don’t think i’ll be able to take it if it suddenly dies when i transplant it in soil.

Found out the name of the lookalike tiger jaw plant. Its bryophyllum
crenatodaigremontianum (thanks to elfinn for the info). Planted them last friday and they’re looking good and growing really fast.

My little gloxinia’s that i propagated about a week ago are doing pretty well..

I think they’ve grown a little. I still cover them with plastic/cling wrap most of the time and they seem happier that way.

Got some plants for my flowerbed…

Cuphea, variegated, alternanthera and jasmine.

Cuphea

Jasmine Sambac ‘Maid of Orleans’ (thanks to notanatural)

And my hydrangea is flowering.

Its been more than two weeks since i propagated my mint plant and gloxinia. They were left in a small jar. And here’s the updates…

You see the cling wrap? All the way to the bottom, all of them are new roots. :)  I did this for a friend, and she took it back with her last night. Heh.

Here’s the gloxinia. It works!! Yay!

The roots are about 1cm long. Pretty kool. Not sure when i can plant them, i guess we shall wait and see.

Got this plant two days ago.

Decided to call it ‘whoopi’. Its got curly succulent leaves, tubular, bell shaped deep red flowers. Found out the name of the plant, its aeschynanthus also known as Lipstick Plant.

Very very VERY pretty.

Its been raining and past few days and my gloxinia flowerbed was filled with water. Don’t worry, they survived. Propagated two of them last night / this morning.

This is kramer

This is kramer jr.
Used this right after i cut the stem..

I hope they don’t die.

The flower on my crown of thorns finally bloomed this morning! Yay! It used to be red, but this time its yellow!

Do you see it? It’s less than a week, and we have a new root/leaf..

And the flower bud from my peace lily  is blooming..

Last weekend, i’ve also propagated my gloxinia into my flowerbed, through layering. Where you pin down the stem into the soil.  It was creeping and crawling, now its creeping and crawling in the flowerbed (hopefully).

This was captured at night. Looks pretty awful..but it looks like that during the day too.

Hopefully this experiment will workout somehow…