Indoor Grown Nepenthes

[Wire Man]

Very nice update! When did you get the attenboroughii?

 

[Sundrew]

Fantastic! Awesome eddies

 

[mato]

Always looking forward to your updates, Mike. Do the rare highland seedlings happen to be N. naga?

 

[dyzio]

n. hamata is so nice!

 

[mass]

gorgeous as always Michael.

 

[mksmith]

Finally had time to see my plants and wanted to post an update for spring:

Nepenthes stenophylla (wild seed)

One of my few hybrids, Nepenthes singalana x hamata

Nepenthes edwardsiana, gearing up for the growing season:

Nepenthes ephippiata (wild seed)

A little guy, but my biggest, they are all slow for me Nepenthes naga (wild seed)

Nepenthes Peter D'Amato x trusmadiensis

Crappy shot under HPS lights, Nepenthes singalana upper

Nepenthes glandulifera

Nepenthes ramispina upper, under the yellow lights with some knuckle hair

More lights, nepenthes edwardsiana seedlings

Two shoots and now a basal on this Nepenthes aristolochioides from wild seed

A big-bubba-burbidgeae, Nepenthes burbidgeae from wild seed

Nepenthes hamata, I think this is a BE release, this is a intermediate pitcher

Nepenthes lowii x veitchii from our friends at EP

Nepenthes trusmadiensis, finally pitchering again

Two nice looking Nepenthes lavicola pitchers from seed

One of my favorite species, Nepenthes jamban. This is one of the BE plants. I think there may be some hybrid influence somewhere down the line on this clone:

Here is my more typical Nepenthes jamban from wild seed

Here is the whole plant right now, two shoots

 

[mass]

yay! You just made my day Michael.. been waiting months for your next update.
Is that the glandulifera I sent you? Loving the freckles..

 

[mksmith]

Thanks Mass. The N. glandulifera I got from you a couple years ago turned out to be a hybrid. Here is a photo of the glandulifera in question:

I still have this plant, it is probably an accidental boshciana cross.

 

[Heli]

YESS!! Finally an update! Incredible stuff Mike, that eddie is better than I could have imagined.

 

[ellisonk001]

Wow, amazing plants!!

Thanks for sharing!!

 

[mattmiller]

I love seeing updates to this thread. Your burbidgeae is lovely!

Thanks for the photos!

 

[mass]

yeah, that lid is a definite giveaway. I'm sorry man.. now I feel a refund is in order (for both of us!) Now if I can just remember who I got it from..

 

[mato]

Your plants are looking great, Mike. It's nice to finally see some lavicola pitchers of decent size.

 

[mksmith]

Wanted to post some new pictures.

Some seedlings to start...

Nepenthes attenboroughii from seed:

Nepenthes izumiae x something and nepenthes inermis from seed:

Nepenthes lingulata from seed and a red nepenthes dubia from seed:

Nepenthes murudensis from super slow-seed, outgrown by villosa same age:

Nepenthes nagas from seed:

Nepenthes rigidifolia from seed:

Nepenthes villosa:

Nepenthes edwardsiana - yellow:

Nepenthes edwardsiana - red:

Nepenthes edwardsiana next to a can:

Nepenthes glabrata intermediates in the chamber:

Nepenthes hamata trio

Nepenthes lowii x truncata:

Nepenthes lowii - 6 plus years old at this point.

Nepenthes lavicola - burnt peristome:

Nepenthes lavicola - chubby dark:

Nepenthes lavicola - green peristome:

Nepenthes lavicola - red peristome, kinda looks like angasanensis:

Nepenthes lavicola - stripped persitome:

Thanks for looking.

 

[Heli]

wow everything looks great as usual Michael, nice job. How big is the attenboroughii?

 

[richjam1986]

Awesome plants Are those hamata different clones? If so, which are which? That would be an awesome photo for comparison.

 

[Wire Man]

Gorgeous plants.

 

[mksmith]

@Heli The attenboroughii is 2" across. Pretty fast grower in highland conditions.

@richjam ... Hey how have you been? ... All of these N. hamata pitchers are off the same plant. The pitcher to the right is a larger lower pitcher. Pitcher in the middle is the first sign of an intermediate pitcher as the plants is vining. Pitcher to the left is a transitional pitcher. This plant is a BE release from several years ago, probably just the N. hamata lumut clone.

 

[mass]

everything looks great as usual Michael..
Are you giving up on using live LFS?

 

[mksmith]

Travis, because i am growing my plants remotely it is hard to control the water level that it would take to keep the sphagnum looking healthy and vibrant. It was easy to maintain the sphagnum when i could hand water my plants each day. Now i have to walk a line; i do not want to overwater my plants and risk doing damage in the form of disease and root rot. I definitely appreciate sphagnum as much as the next grower, but I am keeping things dryer these days which is working well in the enclosed setup.