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01-24-2013, 08:47 PM | #101 (permalink) |
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Re: Water suckers
If you plant a water sucker and it grows will it produce its own sword suckers as it gets bigger? I think I may have been given water suckers and have planted those.
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01-24-2013, 08:56 PM | #102 (permalink) |
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Re: Water suckers
Yes, if it eventually grows a big, healthy corm. There is no genetic difference between sword and water suckers. They difference is the size of the corm and so the energy reserves. A water sucker may be slower to establish and produce a smaller bunch, but once the mat gets established, it'll be no different.
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Re: Water suckers
I have an interesting question re sword and water suckers.
Here are some photos of my Williams with a health sword on the left and a semi sword/water on the right. close up of water growing from old corm Notice the water has red blotches and the sword doesn't. Has anyone noticed this with types that can produce red blotching on young leaves. My Mysore and goldfinger TC plants have red blotching. My dwarf Cavendish which I planted from a healthy sword sucker which was trimmed of most of the p-stem came up with red blotches on the leaves. My Williams with the same treatment had no red on the leaves. My question is, could this water sucker(?) be a dwarf sport . Do TC Williams have red blotches and do water suckers on Williams or any of the larger Caves have the red. Do the large Caves produce dwarfs. Normally the large came from the dwarf. |
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Re: Water suckers
What variety is that? Is it anew one that grows beer pups? I would like to buy one from ya. Name your price.
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Re: Water suckers
I like this one more.
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pop-a-top-o-pup.. :^)
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Re: Water suckers
What kind of plant is that? Do you have one that grows Budweiser?
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Re: Water suckers
If I guess properly would I be right if I said the two on the namwah are water suckers and the one on the Caligold is a Sword?
These are the pups that's on my dwarf namwah This is the one on the Caligold:
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Re: Water suckers
Since my main p-stems died off due a freeze last winter and most/all of what came up in the spring were water instead of swords, would it be better to separate them and plant separately, leave them as is or cut all but the largest water down on each?
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Re: Water suckers
Very helpful thread. The pictures really tell the tale.
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Re: Water suckers
Pretty much, some Swords I've seen can get close to 3' or more before they get a real leaf whereas the Water suckers starts out leafy.. :^)
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Re: Water suckers
Just Just wondering since my orinoco, Rajapuri, gran nain, and dwarf red are putting out pups. If they are water suckers then I plan to remove. Do water suckers after removal and transplanting produce sword suckers?
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Re: Water suckers
Water suckers for me just take longer to get growth but once they get big there isn't much difference.. I think KJ has a thread or an entry in a thread doing a comparison over time.. So once a water sucker gets big it can produce either kind of pup.. :^)
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