Willy's Ant-plants

[jeff]

have you try an NPK with a N more important ?

 

[WillyCKH]

I have minimum experience with ant plants, so I'm not sure. Do you think more N will help them grow?

 

[jeff]

Bonjour

in fact we must compensate for the loss of nitrogens substances produced by ants, so a surplus of nitrogen is not a problem, I tried on mine a NPK: 23-5-5 (10 grams for 3 liter of water) with trace element ,without any particular problem,
on these plants the K is not important, it is not a plant that makes a beautiful flower, the P can be against for root development.

a NPK : 24-6-10 would be ideal

jeff

 

[StickyIcky]

Maxsea works great for me. But I'm also open to other suggestions

 

[Will20013]

I used some chicken poop fertillizer on my ant plants and they are growing like crazy

 

[jeff]

this chicken poop is a good fertitilizer with a great N , but Watch out for excess nitrogen ( N)to feed the plants

 

[WillyCKH]

A few of baby plants here.

 

[jeff]

it is really some myrmecodia tuberosa 'salomonensis' ?

have you a picture to the mother plant ?

jeff

 

[WillyCKH]

it is really some myrmecodia tuberosa 'salomonensis' ?

have you a picture to the mother plant ?

jeff

The seeds are from @StickyIcky 's plant.

 

[Kell27]

I notice that your M. armata also has spots on the leaves, is that typical for this type of ant plant? Mine wasn't doing good for a long time until I repotted it into a mix of LFS & an orchid bark mix. It's regrown all of its leaves but it still gets the spots which I thought were originally pest damage. It seems to be very happy now & enjoys periodic Maxsea sprays

 

[WillyCKH]

Yours look perfectly fine. The spots on their leaves are features that pretend to be bugs, to attract ants!

 

[Kell27]

Yours look perfectly fine. The spots on their leaves are features that pretend to be bugs, to attract ants!

That's so interesting! I honestly know nothing about these plants, but they're very unique. I'm glad I finally got it growing happily

 

[jeff]

Bonjour

The spots on their leaves are features that pretend to be bugs, to attract ants!

we often find this problem when we grow these ant plants,this does not seem to be a bug but rather due to too much fluctuations in ambient humidity.

M.armata is not a specie , we will say to make simple a variety of tuberosa : M.tuberosa'armata'

myrmecodia tuberosa 'salomonensis' I have some doubts about this denomination, but I'm wrong surely this type of plant is not very present in culture in view of the isolated contraries from which they are native.

 

[StickyIcky]

I got mine a couple years back from @DennisZ

 

[StickyIcky]

Parent plant

 

[StickyIcky]

Fruit comparison. The darker orange-red ones are from this plant - the lighter orange from tuberosa.

 

[StickyIcky]

Flowers

 

[jeff]

Bonjour

know you where your friend have had this plant ?

salomonensis is a tuberosa in this species tuberosa you have 16 variety .

on the tuberosa 'salomonensis' you have around the alveoli and the clypeoli spine , here we have not
the leaves broadly elliptic , apex acuminate difficult to see here.
the petiole measure how much?
all that puzzles me as to the determination

it is nevertheless a beautiful plant

jeff

 

[DennisZ]

I got my plant from Mishaal back in the old OCPS years back when he used to import these ant plants. He now runs a rare-tropical plant nursery called Ecouarium.

 

[Slaine]

I believe I got my M. tuberosa from DennisZ as well. It's unfortunate we do not have the exact locality of the plant, but they're very enjoyable nonetheless.