TheZ_Yo's Balcony

[Favian]

your robcantleyi seems to take on Qoh traits! beautiful*

 

[thez_yo]

Whoa - you got it goin' on at your place! I especially like the hamata crosses.

Thanks

I love your robcantleyi. Maybe I get one instead of truncata?
Sorry to hear your hamata isnt pitchering, hope it starts soon!

Thanks... yessssssssss get the rob! Oh... the red hairy? Yeah I've been trying to coax it for the past year... I'm feeling lucky this year though

I cannot get my jacqs to pitcher bigger than a fraction of an inch. You do such a great job with tenuis and jacq!

Thank you They've only just started doing things now that the weather's warmed up.

hey Thez, i'm wondering what you think of ventricosa x hamata. is it a hardy and vigorous one ? i'm planning to get one as well so i'd like to hear your thoughts on it..

I do think it's vigorous and hardy I'd go for it!

Wow Im in awe! Did you get your Tenuis from AW?

Thanks! Yes... afaik he's the only source for us 'normal' folk without crazy connections

your robcantleyi seems to take on Qoh traits! beautiful*

Thanks It's getting darker yet..

 

[maxima]

thank you very much for your input, thez_yo, i'll be getting ventricosa x hamata. love your thread by the way, different and inspiring.

 

[thez_yo]

Haha XD you're welcome and thanks

 

[mato]

Wow, I must have missed this yesterday. Your plants are looking great. Are they inside now, for the most part? Really blown away by the tenuis.

 

[thez_yo]

Wow, I must have missed this yesterday. Your plants are looking great. Are they inside now, for the most part? Really blown away by the tenuis.

Thanks

Naw, the stuff that isn't outside is the clippies, hami, and peltata are in a terra, and behind a west-facing window is campy x (spec x talan), rob, viking x khasi, veitchii K, bosch x campy, alata, xClarabell, clippy x clippy x eymae, nephthys, campy x max and campy x thor. Otherwise, west-facing balcony for the rest of the CPs.

 

[pebes]

seriously, how do you grow on a balcony? light, humidity, etc.? thanks in advance.

 

[thez_yo]

Seriously and not for jokes?

I just water when things are dry. 1-2 times a week depending on how light the pots are (pick them up - if they don't weigh like the compost is wet enough, water ) for neps. For sarra/ceph/vft/cobra/drosera water when the saucer dries out. West facing balcony, and a couple weeks acclimation when I first get the plants. Conditions vary enough (wind/cloud cover/temps/humidity/etc.) that I usually give everything a once-over look-at in the morning or evening to make sure nothing too drastic happened the previous 24hrs. Sometimes I mist with superthrive/orchid fert/neem but nothing too regular.

 

[Wire Man]

The campanulata x (spec x talangensis) is still probably my favorite plant in your collection.

 

[pebes]

Seriously and not for jokes?

I just water when things are dry. 1-2 times a week depending on how light the pots are (pick them up - if they don't weigh like the compost is wet enough, water ) for neps.

seriously, Do you live near the ocean? what is you ambient humidity? no, seriously.

 

[Dexenthes]

Swweeet! It looks like the RHH is working on some pitchers at least, which is definitely something.

 

[thez_yo]

Swweeet! It looks like the RHH is working on some pitchers at least, which is definitely something.

:grin: yes it is!

The campanulata x (spec x talangensis) is still probably my favorite plant in your collection.

I think it's mine too thanks!!

seriously, Do you live near the ocean? what is you ambient humidity? no, seriously.

Yes, I do. Not too close - I don't necessarily get all the delicious fogs that roll in like the apartment I used to have in Point Loma, but I do get me some humidity. Right now my crappy petstore meter says... 55% but I did just water, and I think it's +/- 20% off All of the plants save for villosa do best May-Julyish so um... http://www.weather.com/weather/monthly/92103 for some planty cultural requirements

 

[carnivoure12]

Great update, ¡Can't wait for the tenuis to open!

 

[thez_yo]

You're in luck it just did tonight!!

 

[thez_yo]

I'll label in a little bit.. ok, now that I've eaten dinner, time to do some labeling... I took some photos at work of my terra with my cellphone, so sorry the pics have focuses in the weirdest places

D.paradoxa (in terra @ work)

N.hamiguitanensis in the center of the tank - behind it clippy clone 2, and D.lanata way up close on the left with D.paradoxa in the back (in terra @ work)

D.lanata... two shots cuz the focus just didn't wanna go somewhere useful

N.clipeata clone 2

N.peltata

N.clipeata clone U omg peltate leaf insertion on the latest leaf

N.clipeata clone U

N.clipeata clone U

the latest N.sibuyanensis x xtrusmadiensis basal pitcher for me. The main growth point has pretty much just died off, so ... I guess the basal is a good thing. I guess.

... and from the side I guess I'm just excited it's made a whole three pitchers for me this year vs. the usual 1 per year since I got it

OMNOMNOM good job platychila! caught its own lunch (a hornet )

N.hamata x platychila

N.hamata x platychila (the last pitcher that for

N.hamata x platychila (the last pitcher that formed for me)

N.hamata BE the last pitcher that formed for me

...the whole plant with my whole two pitchers!!

..and that newest pitcher from the front. N'aww fuzzy wuzzy!

the big pitcher with the condensation inside is N.ovata BE, that bright little red/orange one is N.dubia SG from Wistuba from Malea

N. ventricosa x xtrusmadiensis (B) just opened maybe... 2 nights ago

N.tenuis from AW just opened last night... not gonna lie, I peeled the lid up some to help it along

N.khasiana x viking with a N.thorelli x campanulata photo-bombing in the back

and a wee bitty N.boschiana x campanulata basal pitcher

 

[Heli]

Wow..... Dat tenuis.

 

[Favian]

TheZ they are amazing! are there three trusmadiensis hybrids in those pics?

 

[That One Guy]

Wow, someone please tell me what neps those are in pics 15 and 16

 

[thez_yo]

Thanks labeled now..

 

[chibae]

Now you've done it, i want a tenuis