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Nepenthes Alarm Clock

seedjar

Let's positive thinking!
As some of you may know, I have trouble waking up in the morning. So here's my solution:
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This is just a few feet from my bed, and comes on at a glorious 4:30 AM every morning. Far better than talk radio (and marginally better than mariachi music.)
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~Joe
 
Wow that's a lot of plants. :p

How do you manage to water them all?

-Ben
 
Yeah, what do you do when you go on vacation?
 
Very nice set up I have a cat desk decor type thingy that moves it's arm up and down and it's head sideways when the shun shines on it which it makes a clcking noise that's my alarm on my days off though a nice growing set up would be nice to wake me up.. =D

Where did you get those aquatic plants pots I can't seem to find any at my local garden center or aquarium/pond stores..
 
Are those pool filters?
 
jim......they are "water lily pots"
 
Love the flared peristome fusca :)
 
Dang, those are a lot of neps. And nice looking ones at that :) I just have to ask, but is that a frog trashcan? :3
 
Thanks for the comments, guys!
I water them by flooding the large UV-resistant plastic tray underneath. My large tray holds 12 of those big square pots, the smaller one fits 8. I got them from a dog kennel supplier.
When I go on vacation, they go wanting! I can ignore these guys for over a week and they do fine. The nice thing about net pots for Neps is that you can leave them in an inch or two of water for a while without the plants noticing. I actually kept the largest two there, my sanguinea and alata x ventrata, in standing water for almost all of last winter - I think the trays went dry two or three times over four or five months.
They're aquatic plant pots, and I got them at Lowes'/Ace. Sometimes they have them, sometimes they don't, I just buy a half a dozen whenever I see some and can afford them.
And finally, no, it's a frog humidifier, and his name is Gero-gero-kun. (From Target, before you ask.)
~Joe
 
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