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  • #21
Everythings looking great Nem!
 
  • #22
very sharp Ferrocactus
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Starfire Aloe
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Unknown Hooked Cactus
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Jade Plant and unknown succulent
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Nepenthes Spectabilis X aristo Finally putting out exceptional growth and pitchering.
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Heavy nectar amounts.
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The backs of these pitchers are spectacular.
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A few months ago, there was deliberation upon this plant being a chimera.
Indeed, the growth tip has split. This plant has two growth points!
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Side view
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TJ's Dionaea Muscipula cross seedling
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  • #23
Dang man, that Nepenthes is really taking off!
 
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  • #24
The new addition. A ventricosa

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With basals

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Nepenthes Spectabilis Giant seedling

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Nepenthes Jamban Seedlings

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The secondary growth point is gaining girth
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Nepenthes King Tiger X Mirabilis 'kuraburi'
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The pitcherless Rafflesiana.
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These strange dots cover the bottom of ever leaf after a few months.
Could it be disease?
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Nepenthes Hamata

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I really feel like pitchers should be larger by now..

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Truncata Pasian
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I feel as this one should have larger pitchers by now as well
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  • #25
Wow your N. Hamata is looking nice. Last time I saw it, it still had green peristomes :)

I wonder why that Nepenthes King Tiger X Mirabilis 'kuraburi' has such puny pitchers compared to its massive leaves? Never seen that before.
 
  • #26
Haha thanks, its finally beginning to color up.
Im thinking about moving it to the high powered lights
and try to acclimate it to 20% lower humidity soon.

And really? I thought the pitchers were proportional..
Currently, that plant holds champion for largest pitchers.
Each one is about the size and width of my thumb and
getting a little bigger. The pitchers are more squat / tubby than elongated as well.
The thing that Im really curious about are the leaves themselves; they are paper thin and always have been.
 
  • #27
Well I hope the acclimation goes well.

Yeah all of my plant's have pitchers that are ABOUT 80% the length of their leaves. My ventricosa "black" is an exception with pitchers about 20% bigger than its leaves. Your King Tiger looks weird in my eyes with its huge leaves but not huge pitchers.
 
  • #28
By the way Nem, your inbox is full!
 
  • #29
Thanks sash! also, time for more photos

Nepenthes Spectabilis X Aristo Chimera

This plant just gets weirder every time I inspect.
Not only has it grown 2 central growth points, but
now its sprouting a basal.

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Cooling time.

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THe previous pitcher of Nepenthes Hamata

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Its opening...

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Nepenthes Spectabilis Giant

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Almost a dime now. Its finally made the transition off of
the infant pitchers. there are now tendrils

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  • #30
I had 7 seeds of Byblis guehoi and 7 of B. Filifolia. One Guehoi survived but the rest perished of them perished :(
This one must make it..

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Drosera Capensis
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[Top] - Sarracenia Oreophylla
[Bottom] Sarracenia Jonesii
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Outdoor bog
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VFT flower stalk! Seeds on the way hopefully
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  • #31
That Nepenthes Spectabilis X Aristo is very cool looking! I'm still really curious as to why your Rafflesiana is not growing well seeing as you have really good conditions & high humidity.
 
  • #32
Lookin good Nem, just fyi that vft will self pollinate.
 
  • #33
That Nepenthes Spectabilis X Aristo is very cool looking! I'm still really curious as to why your Rafflesiana is not growing well seeing as you have really good conditions & high humidity.


Im beginning to think it needs something. My best guess is that it PROBABLY wants more Light.
The plant grows fine, however it just doesnt pitcher. I was tempted to try a coffee treatment,
but decided to hold off for a bit. I have 2 racks, one is a bit underpowered and the other runs a bit chillier
than what the rafflesiana may like. I may have to make some new arrangements now that you said that.


Lookin good Nem, just fyi that vft will self pollinate.

OH dear. My bad, Still learning about them. Very very strange plants.
Also that makes me extremely excited. because there are two flowerstalks coming!
Thats the first VFT ive kept alive over a year, and also catches more insects than any other plant Ive owned.
Not to mention the largest too. IT seems to be very skilled in that art.

Perhaps the babies will be too.:0o:
 
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  • #34
Great update Nem! That chimera is starting to look like the Leaning Tower of Tendrils.

Your S. seedlings are huge too! Have you happened to have sewn those S. jonesii seeds yet?
 
  • #35
Flytraps will self-pollinate, but only under manual pollination. Anthers open after the stigma is no longer receptive, so new flowers must be used to pollinate older flowers.
 
  • #36
Great update Nem! That chimera is starting to look like the Leaning Tower of Tendrils.

Your S. seedlings are huge too! Have you happened to have sewn those S. jonesii seeds yet?
I was due to plant today, but forgot so I will have to do that tomorrow..


Flytraps will self-pollinate, but only under manual pollination. Anthers open after the stigma is no longer receptive, so new flowers must be used to pollinate older flowers.
I didnt know that either! thank you, Sounds like im going to have to store some pollen
 
  • #37
Sorry, had that backward. New flowers do pollinate the older flowers, because anthers are open first, then the stigma later.. :)
 
  • #38
Update: More Mutagenic growth detected.

But first - D. Dichrosepalata (?)
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Nepenthes Spectabilis X Aristo

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The top growth tip Never seems to actually pitcher, but it keeps growing taller.
The underleaves scar before theyre even un-sheathed from the previous leaf.
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However, the Mid growthpoint continues on. This PhytoHydra is going to be a mess in the future.

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Pitcher with Background Basal.

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Basal leaves with Healthy Inflating pitcher on bottom growth.

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My Dew Pot invader has gone to seed, and I missed the blue bloom..
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Pygmy Hybrid - Ill look if anybodys ever interested.

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  • #39
The common TC batch of spectabilis x aristo is all screwed up. My plant is very similar, and so was the one I had before that that I replaced hoping to get something healthier. I'm not really sure what to do with the plant. Throw it away? Doesn't seem tradable.
 
  • #40
I believe the BE tissue cultured aristolochioides X spectabilis is severely messed up*. In fact, I think the clone is a chimaera which eventually manifests as a distorted growing point, as you are currently seeing. I had this happen with my plant and the solution was to remove the growing point and force a node further down to grow and take over. Good luck.

*by "messed up" I am NOT implying this plant has been damaged by tissue culture. Sometimes chimaeras are naturally occurring phenomena that are not the result of tissue culture practices. It's impossible to know for certain where this distortion came from.
 
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