TBV : Beside orchids, what else?

Today, love to share with you the latest look of my plants at TBV. Some of them may be published before. Just to show you how their growing progress at TBV. Some of them grow BIG very fast!

The big silver Tillandsia xerographica will be bloomed soon ..and.. the infloresence can be lasted about 7 months! To me growing tillandsia is not for the bloom..but for the its leaves ,structure and infloresence. Leaves: it will change the color when reach the blooming season. Structure; they have so unique shape when they grow into big clump. Inflorensence; so unique!

Several pots of my Anthurium.. Jungle Bush, plowmanii and the 'Keris' (below)Platycerium coronarium.. common platy species in Malaysia.I have this Anthurium dressleri hybrid about 2 weeks..and now its give me a new pretty leaves.The fruit of Anthurium Jungle Bush. Its producing matured seeds ( the small red balls ).Again, another several pots of my anthuriums. Can you recognize them?A Bat's Lily. Grow them from seeds. These 2 Alocasia grow very fast! Platycerium Hula Hand. Platycerium veitchii. An Australian species.Platycerium willinckii. An Indonesian species.Guess what? Hint: A rare Malaysian species.Adenium. A new 'virus' injected by my orchid friend. Love to 'play' for the bonsai shape and root repairing.

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See you soon.

Lycopodium nummularifolium

Hi Friends..

Especially to all fern lovers, here I share with you my collection of Lycopodium nummularifolium. In Pahang state, an aborigins called this fern allies as 'Sisik Naga'.

From observation, my collection consist 2 varieties of L.nummularifolium.....classified them as 'soft stem' and 'hard stem'.

Currently, I'm having 10 pots 'soft stem' L.nummularifolium and a pot the 'hard stem'. And..so sorry, they're not for sale. In period of propogating them until 100 pots especially the 'hard stem' type.

Growing tip:

• 50% shade
• organic fertilizer is the best.
• media - 100% Sphagnum moss.
• propogation same as other Lyco.

You can read my article on others Lyco here, here, here and here.

Tanduk tanduk

Platycerium stemmaria .. ni berasal daripada Madagascar. Pembiakan melalui spora dan 'pup' yang keluar pada induknya.. antara spesis yang aku minati sebab 'shield frond' dia yang unik.


Platycerium ridleyi .. spesis daripada Malaysia yang sentiasa 'hot' di seluruh dunia.. memang menjadi idaman setiap pengggemar paku pakis. Dikenali dengan nama Tanduk Kijang oleh penduduk tempatan. Pembiakan hanya melalui spora.

Lycopodium dalhousianum

Friends,

Here the rare exotic fern allies from Malaysia! Known as Lycopodium dalhousianum. Also popular as Blue Fern. For local people in Pahang state ( 1 of Malaysia state ), they called it Ekor Kuda ( Horse tail ).

This lyco can reach 4 meters long. I propogate my L. dalhousianum through stem cutting and clump division. If you grow it through stem cutting, need to wait about 5 to 6 months to see the keiki. And yes, stem cutting technique take a long time but it will give you more plants in a period of time. Refer to my graphic article about this technique here.

Clump division easier than stem cutting. But, you need to sacrifice your big beauty clump into a several small clumps. Every division should have minimum 2 stems to guarantee your success.

For media, I used only 100% Sphagnum moss to grow all of my lycos. At the surface of the media I grow a living moss for nature look.

I feed my lycos with seaweed based fertilizer. Also another organic fertilizers. Becareful if you feed them with chemical fertilizer, never overdose! Or it will burn your plant root.

L.dalhousianum need 50% sunlight to grow well and will give you healthy leaves. Usually silverish green color.

Currently, I have 10 pots of L.dalhousianum. I wish to multiply my 'Horse tail' until 100 pots. End of this year, if no problem with disease infection to my stem cutting, I'm sure will have about another 20 pots of L.dalhousianum. And, all of them is NOT FOR SALE. That's why the TBV: Private Conservation Centre built for.

Platyceriums....

Platycerium willinckii mounted on the mango tree at TBV. This species very easy to grow in Malaysian climate. It's native to Indonesia. Look like P.bifurcatum but the fertile frond thinner than P.bifurcatum. Multiplication of this plant can be achieved through 'pup isolation' technique and spore.

Platycerium hillii pup seperated from the mother plant and just mounted to another mango tree at TBV. The fertile frond growing upward like P.ridleyi but with no 'deer-horn' shape.

Platycerium bifurcatum. Well established on driftwood and hang about 4 meters above the ground at TBV. Hope this species can form a 'giant ball-shape'.

A rare Malaysian species. Seldom to see among Malaysian grower. Platycerium holtumii. Grow it about a year ago.