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nepenthes gracilis

Nepenthes Specialist
Here's my gallery for the month of December.
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N. diatas 'meadow form'
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N. x rokko female flower spike.
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N. glabrata
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N. glabrata
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N. maxima (Jeff Shafer's clone)

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N. sibuyanensis
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N. veitchii "Bareo Highland" fully matured/hardened off pitcher
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N. thorellii JAM (long nrw) x summer 1976 LCS #2F Superba-mixta

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N. rafflesiana "Singapore Giant"
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N. bicalcarata 'red' (really big pitcher! approx. 15cm tall 10cm wide)

My N. rajah pic is too big to post so go here for it's picture.
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N. rajah

Thanks for viewing!
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Great photos
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! Maybe I'll some day get the pics I took developed and scanned... I really want a N. sibuyanensis. How big is yours?
 
I would like to second that request.
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Excellent pictures, and I would be interested to see the plant that produced that sibuyanensis pitcher.

Pat
 
Hello Pat and Nathaniel, it's dark here now, but tomorrow I'll snag a pic of the plant, it's about 15cm (6inches in diameter) I belive the pitcher is in the 3cm by 2cm (1.5inches high by .5 inches wide) range, but this guy can grow! Quite fast if you ask me.
 
Great! I hope I haven't already asked this, but what conditions do you grow it under?

Thanks,
Pat
 
nice pics nepenthes gracilis
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. i like your N. veitchii "Bareo Highland". just a question. why do you put your raja in 2 pots? Zongyi
 
Hey there eager beaver, it's not December yet!
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Nice plants. I wish my bical was that big!
 
Pat, just good old highland/ultrahighland conditions, it should be fine in a warmer setup, it's quite tolerant.

Zongyi, the 2 pot setup is, one (the inner one) holds the plant and soil, the larger white one holds living sphagnum which will encourage pitcher production, N. rajah won't make it's famous large pitchers in the air, they must have ground support. I'm basically trying to get the plant to "think" it's in the ground, so it will spread out more and the pitchers will form. Basically I could just plant it in the big pot if I wanted to, but it doesn't need to be repotted yet.

Ninja, N. bicalcarata is a very fast grower IMHO. I have one I got in August 2002 ( as a 6 inch seedling, now it's over 1 foot across alread with 3 inch tall pitchers.
 
I LOVE your veitchii! i just wanted to know how fast they grow?

your bical is amazing as well, but i love your maxima and rajah most of all! Ditto on how fast maxima grows, if you dont mind.


I always look forward to seeing your pics!
 
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nepenthes gracilis, thanks for the quick reply. i had a guess that you where trying to keep the pitchers on the ground, but then i was wondering why you didn' just pot it in the big pot. now i know
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. Zongyi
 
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Wow, nice show Nepenthes gracilis... delightful as usual! Your picture almost make me return to Nepenthes growing instead on Drosera! Nahh... but almost! I would miss my dews too much I think ;) Very nice plants!
 
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Beautiful pics Dustin. Just love the Veitchii.
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Tom, the only fair thing to do is grow both.

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Beautiful! This is what keeps me going everyday
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I love this forum haha.

Nep G, those really are fabulous plants...how large is the 'Singapore Giant'? You can imagine why I have a vested interest in asking
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Justlikeapill, N. maxima is a very vigorous plant, it may not be super fast like N. tobiaca but it's already forming it's newest pitcher within weeks of the one pictured opening.
N. veitchii is much slower, but very progressive, it's like a truncata in a way but a little faster....probably I'm guessing as fast as an N. burbidgeae. Each new leaf it puts out get's bigger as well as the pitcher size, it's growing up so fast!
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Zongyi, I could have, I think the trick to this plant, is just enough root space, with alot of surface area for the plant to rest it's pitchers and tendrils on.

Tom, do like I do, grow both like Max said!
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Tamlin got me hooked on them when he visited me! They now have earned their own bench spot in the greenhouse.
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Colin, the N. rafflesiana "Singapore Giant" form is a striking plant. That pitcher is approx 10cm tall and 3cm wide. The next one is forming in the N. bicalcarata pot on moss....maybe it will be bigger since it has support and cushion from the moss.
 
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Whoa! AWESOME pictures as always!!
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I really like your pics of the glabrata, very nice! I just got one of these guys, and it seems pretty fast, is that correct? Thanks for sharing!!
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Nepenthes gracilis/Capslock: That's what I'm doing... But I meant perhaps 'more focussing' on a genus... I am unable to only have Drosera, or Pinguicula (Ah, CP addiction), I have a lot of genus and species currently... The main problem about Nepenthes (as Sarracenia) is moving, and the room they need. I am moving too often to make proper installation for 'picky but holy moly!' species, but I haven't been able to give away my N.alata, ventricosa, x coccinea by that time, I HAD to keep at least the hardiest ones
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. But it is gaining me back little by little, I now have a truncata, ramispina and hirsuta, and plan to have few more... but never more than my Drosera for sure. This forum sure give me back the Nepenthes addiction, just like 5 years ago when I had over 20 differents species
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Thank you guys for sharing!
 
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Hey cool, your rokko is flowering. So is mine. My rokko is a girl
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I'm a sucker for veitchii. It's a beauty, Dustin. I really like the sibuyanensis too. Might have to try one someday. I hear they are fairly heat tolerant.
Our Rokko is female too, but she's not flowering right now. I've got a kampotiana x (thorelii x wittei) male just starting to open. It's a nice cultivar we hope to register soon. If anyone wants to try a hybrid, contact me. We could split the seed.

Trent
 
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Nep G, very nice shots! The N. glabrata is getting the very nice "stained glass" look. How large is your plant/pitcher before it develops? Does it get the pitcher shape and color when young? It looks like yours is hanging (judging by the pot clips) so I'm thinking yours might be far larger than I'll get when I eventually order one!

N. rajah will make pitchers hanging in the air/hanging over a pot as that's the only way mine are being formed in the last few months. The latest expanding pitcher tendril is over 35 cm long and hanging under the shelf still inflating). One new tendril however has just recently thrust itself into the N. macrophylla pot and stopped it's downward advance so we'll see how a "grounded" pitcher compares to a  hanging one.
 
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