New arrival

[nepenthes gracilis]

Holy huge, I thought Phil was gonna send me a large nepenthes not a gigantic one! lol! As you cna see this baby is one heck of a plant! A big thanks to Phillip and Michael and the PFT staff as they had fun packing it!

Hanging up after opening.

One of the many big pitchers, just about 1 ft tall, the top is shriveled so I image it was at least 1 ft.

 

[swords]

Nice! I always wonder if my N. maxima x ? #1 "Red" is this hybrid. If it is the same it's a prety fast grower if you give it true lowland conditions. It didn't hardly do anything when i tried a cutting in highland conditions.

 

[trashcan]

No wonder they sold out so fast!

 

[eplants02]

Huh, my N. Miranda looks different from yours, Dustin.

 

[goldtrap2690]

i wish i did'nt spend money on the grab bag sale and the other sales because now i regret that i could get one of these babies , its HUGE

 

[nepenthes gracilis]

It's in the greenhouse now. Get's hot days in the 80's and recently with the clear days in the 90's. In the chamber inm the ghouse it gets 90 easily for the 2 experimental lowlands. in there (N. merrilliana and N. mirabilis). It's a brute through and through, the stems are emorous on these...about 1 inch in diameter, too bad we couldn't get a photo of the parents!

N. truncata is rivaling the stem thickness...think it may have to grow faster

Eric, your plant is a little smaller, give it soem time to get big.

 

[Trent]

One of the parents is N. Mixta, which is a brute too. It's interesting how size of plants are affected by ancestry. You would think the maxima female of N. Miranda would scale down the size a bit from the monster sized N. Mixta. I've seen hybrids with N. bellii that were huge-it's like the small size of the bellii was completely recessive. In fact, the pitchers on one plant were bigger than either parent-in this case, bellii x veitchii.

Trent

 

[nepenthes gracilis]

How big does this miranda hybrid get Trent....I still am staring at it when I walk in the greenhouse! lol With the northiana parentage I'm guessing really bulky with very large pitchers.

 

[Trent]

Once they get up to size, the pitchers can be up to a foot long. The leaves about 20 inches....and then the ground shoots start...

Trent

 

[nepenthes gracilis]

Oh boy!

 

[Spectabilis73]

wow! I'll have to get one in janurary! MAN! that is huge! I haven't gotten my nepenthes coccinea yet, but I hope it's as big as yours!

 

[Andenes]

Its not fair.

Those plants arrived on monday and on tuestday i got online and they were all out.

I wanted one... How expensive were they anyhow? I never even got the chance to see that! (did someone buy more than two plants?!?!) And are they lowlanders or highlanders? Are they comming back to sell? I sure hope so.

 

[nepenthes gracilis]

I'm not sure if they are coming back. They are very nice plants. I belive the website had it listed as 27.99 but I'm not sure on that. It was around 30.00 a plant. N. miranda is a lowlanders/intermediate due to it's 2/3 parentage of N. maxima.

 

[Andenes]

Thanx Gracilis! Now I know which nepenthes to have on my most wanted list

I hope they'll bring them back.