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34/50 sprouted and survived = 68%
my personal best before was 58%...woo hoo!

the largest ones are three weeks old now. One is already big enough to ship, with 4" diameter pads.

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Very nice, Sandy! Glad to hear of your successes. So how do you ship such a thing?

PS...excellent use of that recycled cattle trough!

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Now all I need is a pond as big as my back yard!!!

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very nice,


alex

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Nice, got any pics of the flowers?

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I love these! I can remember when some of our horticulturists at MBG used to come in at night to pollinate them (the natural pollinator is a moth in S. America) and then wait to see if the pollination took. They are definitely cool plants.

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Ahh, these are the giant ones with the white flowers, correct?

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It starts out as white than turns rose pink.

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Ahhh! Yes, I've seen these at the MO Botanical Gardens...very cool!

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I was friends with the guy who took care of the one's at MBG and when a leaf started to die at come apart, he'd have to take a pitch fork to lift it out of the water to protect his hands from the thorny underside.

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They're thorny? They look like they'd be slimy....interesting! Always great to learn new things!

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Yes, they are very thorny on the undersides, I presume to protect them from grazing fish/other animals.

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this picture shows the thorns, kind of. They're real sharp like a rose.
poised to pull out of pond pictures from gardens photos on webshots