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Lazy afternoon pictures (i)

Various Nepscapes
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Speckled amp & kindergarten
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Red Leppard (probably def, too)
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Ventricosa x xiphioides twins
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Vild Ventrata
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mixta x maxima
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and the second installment:


khasiana upper with stoned fly (the bugger didn't care about the camera, my hands or anything else but the sweet, sweet nectar...)
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The Burbs!
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N. adnata
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N. thorelii x aristolochioides
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N. rafflesiana var. nivea
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Red Dragon(ette)
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Plumeria rubra
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FIVE-INCH CENTIPEDE!!
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Very beautiful photos of beautiful plants! Thank you for sharing Hans!

Cheers,

Amori
 
wish i lived in Tiawan!
 
very nice
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Bye for now Julian
 
hank you for taking your time and posting such beautifull pics
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[b said:
Quote[/b] (Hans Breuer @ Sep. 28 2005,2:16)]khasiana upper with stoned fly (the bugger didn't care about the camera, my hands or anything else but the sweet, sweet nectar...)
yeah that happens. i get that too! funny how the ants hog the nectar. for me they, the ants, will chase around flys along or around the peristome and try to attack it. fun to watch!
 
The centipede would be a great meal for the Mixta x maxima! Mine seems to always get a centipede in each pitcher. So I dare not just stick my hands into leaf litter these days!

Nice assortment of plant types and I like the combination of high and low land stuff growing side by side!


Michael
 
Looking great
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How do you grow your Burbi? (temps soil etc etc)??
 
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Quote[/b] (RainforestGuy @ Sep. 28 2005,11:07)]Nice assortment of plant types and I like the combination of high and low land stuff growing side by side!


Michael
wont they die eventually, either or if the same conditions are given?
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  • #11
Hi guys, and thanks for the compliments!

My plants don't grow exactly under the same conditions. Lowlanders grow under one layer of black 50% netting, highlanders under two layers. Yes, that sounded silly to me when I first heard of it, but here, it works. The environment here (Northern Taiwan, ocean-facing hillside, 700 ft. above sea level) is lowland in the summer and intermediate to highland in fall and spring (in the two winter months I cover the whole greenhouse with plastic and install a heater). The most important thing, however, is the night drop, which allows the highlanders to survive the summers, but is not so harsh as to kill the lowlanders in fall and spring.

As a result, burbidgeaes, ramispinas and stenophyllas grow just as fine as amps and bicals, albeit at different seasons. The only neps that absolutely thrive like weeds, no matter what time of year, are my cheapest - the ventratas - and my most expensive, the Cantley's Red. Weird, but I can't complain, I guess...

As to my burbi, I grow it just like everything else, low or high:
in a deep pot with a bottom lining of medium-sized pebbles, then a mix of fine and coarse "orchid bark", fine and coarse clay pebbles, fern tree bark, perlite, small granite and quartz pebbles, and a little (maybe 10%) peat, all topped with a fat layer of dead LFS.

DISCLAIMER: This mix works for me, but might not for others, as it's quite sunny-hot in the greenhouse, but also windy, and the plants get a lot of rain (man-made rain every hour if the heavens don't provide any). All that calls for a light, fast-draining mix with humidity-preserving properties (LFS and perlite), which works fine for all my species and hybrids (the ultra-lowlanders get some more peat and also shredded sphagnum in their mix)

cheers

Hans
 
  • #12
Great looking plants, as always.

That drunk fly cracks me up
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