Pinguicula gigantea

[Raymond Chong]

Recently acquired gigantea from @Muckydoo.
Love how dewy both sides of the leaves have become. Always wonder how it doesn't slime itself.

 

[stevebradford]

 

[stevebradford]

@Zimmey if I remember right I promised you a Pinguicula gigantea devision and don’t remember if I ever got one to you.

 

[Zimmey]

You did give me one, it doesn't look as happy as yours, but it has split into 3 little plants that are doing ok.. about the size of toonies.

 

[stevebradford]

Anyone know if Pinguicula gigantea needs to be cross pollinated by a genetically different plant?

I tried to self pollinate a bunch of flowers of the manny Pinguicula gigantea plants I have from leaf pullings from an original single plant. The flowers produced seed capsules but so far all have been empty of seed.

Going to try to pollinate the flowers with pollen of a different species next.

 

[WillyCKH]

Usually cross pollination gives much better seed production. You can try two different gigantea.

 

[stevebradford]

Yeah I did but mine are all genetically the same. My normal pollination method has been working on my other Pinguicula just not gigantea. Fortunately I have plenty of other flowers to attempt random hybrid crosses with next.

 

[Muckydoo]

Was repotting some gigantea into a single 1010 tray, and found this old LGM tag on this one. For whatever reason this is the one that catches all the fungus gnats while the ones beside it catch half as many.

I'm going to put this tray on-top of my isopod bins, to catch the 5 billion fungus gnats that roam that area. I didn't realize I had this many P. gigantea until I started to pull the pots apart.