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Cephalotus appreciation thread

Wolfn

Agent of Chaos
This thread is dedicated to the awesomness that is Cephalotus. For everyone who has a Ceph, those who plan to buy one, and those who think Cephalotus is just an awesome plant.

Talk about care tips, post pics of your own Ceph, etc.



Here's a pic of my Cephalotus:
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Here are pics of Cephalotus I've found through the internet
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I'm definitely no expert, but your media looks very wet for a ceph. Maybe it's the pic, maybe it just me. Just my opinion.
 
Wow, those are some incredible colors.
 
I'm definitely no expert, but your media looks very wet for a ceph. Maybe it's the pic, maybe it just me. Just my opinion.


Well, I had just recently watered it when I took that pic. I only water it once a month. I let the water from the tray evaporate and let the soil dry out a little bit before I add new water.
 
Here are pics of Cephalotus I've found through the internet

Ahmad, if the photos are not your own, then you should not upload them to your own Photobucket account, just to post them here.

Unless you have sought permission from the owners to use his/her photo, providing a hyperlink to the owner's webpage is the appropriate way to go.
 
Ahmad, if the photos are not your own, then you should not upload them to your own Photobucket account, just to post them here.

Unless you have sought permission from the owners to use his/her photo, providing a hyperlink to the owner's webpage is the appropriate way to go.

Agreed. And yes, Cephalotus are awesome.

xvart.
 
i like cephs, just took some leaf cuttings so now have a few new plants! just like all cps, if you give them conditions they like, they will thrive for you
 
*Wonders how he missed this thread* I also appreciate Cephs. One of my favorite CPs.
Especially how they clump over time :).

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Here's a few I got this past July. Plants were cloned from seed a Canadian grower got from the ICPS. The last link is one planted out from TC by the grower 3 months before I got mine and they're colored up real nicely..now I'm looking for any giant form but they're really scarce for us Canucks.

Temps in the GH this summer are 60/68F at night and 85/95 during the day according to my digi thermometer at soil level so they get nice drops in temperature at night. I have a 1/4 piece of plexiglass between them and direct sunlight so I guess the light intensity is more "diffused" when it reaches the plants (hence the greeness) even though they're out about 3-4 hrs in direct sun. I soak them to soil level once a week for 15 mins and mid-week they usually get one top watering around it's perimeter. They don't sit in saucers. All the red coloured stuff is "pre" my possession and all the green is basically since July. Media mix is 1/1/1 (peat/perlite/pool sand), plant sits on a mound with LFS around the perimeter of the pot. Plants are probably 1.75-2" in diameter now, 1.5" when I got them.

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CEPH2
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CEPH3
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Well this is my Cepalotus... has being 5 months since I get it.

<a href="http://s537.photobucket.com/albums/ff340/MrFus/?action=view&current=newceph0830.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i537.photobucket.com/albums/ff340/MrFus/newceph0830.jpg" border="0" alt="Cephalotus"></a>

It have a rough trip, I was worried that it wasn't going to recover, but it's doing ok, growing slow but steady... the only original part on the plant is the big pitcher the rest is new grow after 5 months.
 
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CUTE
Everyone has such cute little cephalotus. I have 2 cephalotus. One of mine is sort of like these cute little ones, except its a little bigger, and very, very symmetrical. It has 2 growth points but its biggest one is just like an exactly symetrical rosette. It's also begun making small, but definitely mature shaped pitchers.
My second one is very happy. It has too many growth points to count and is definitely termed a 'clump'.
They seem to thrive on my windowsill at my nanas, taking only 1 month to acclimatise and begin growing, and beginning to grow new growth points almost straight after settling in. I'm actually waiting for my bigger one to decide to flower - but I don't know if its large enough yet. It may need to grow just a tad more.
Anyway. Mine cost me 22.00$ for the big one, the little one came free.
 
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Do you rotate your plant?

I use to... but I start forgeting to do it, and it looks like as for all green plants the new grow on my ceph is pointing to the side where is more exposed to the sun.

For how long you have being taking care of your cephalotus Kath?
 
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1 year of growth:

August 2007:
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sept 2007
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Aug 2008: Now...taken two days ago:

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amazing! your Cephalotus grow enormous on one year... :0o:
 
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thanks! The key I found is LOW temps (max 65F during day), atleast some decent air circulation + most important: open media. Lighting is also important but I haven't found the ideal condition to get good coloration yet...so I can't comment on that.

PS: if anyone is interested i can show them the progress of how much time and how my leaf cuttings have grown to cephs with adult pitchers. Most of the leaf cuttings directly started with adult pitchers for me.
 
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I agree with Varun about low temperatures for large picthers. Growing them in the 80s to near 90 year round (like in Singapore), encourages them to use their energy in producing offshoots resulting in clumping and many, many small pitchers.

Just to share the cheer! :-O

Some rhizomes, which were placed on live sphagnum moss 2 weeks ago, are now producing buds.

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I'm impresed with the cephalotus...

I mean, they say its a hard plant if you dont have experience and is really sensitive, etc. Now I see the fact that if you know and understand the basics on CP plants (media, water, temperature, light) and if you can provide the cephalotus with the correct combination the plant is not hard to grow at all.
 
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Cindy - that first rhizome is going to be a massive clump! I counted seven (maybe eight) buds in the span of about what - a half inch?

Have you ever tried dividing the rhizome once the buds form to space out the growth? Would this be detrimental to all the buds?

xvart.
 
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