My indoor greenhouse and desk setup

[Whimgrinder]

You are lucky to have that N. sanguinea X ramispina hybrid! You are doing great work with the Nepenthes. They obviously like you. I'm glad you are enjoying the robcantleyi hybrid

 

[redtxn]

nice setup, do you use fans or any type of air circulation?

 

[East_to_west]

Thanks Paul! The rob hybrid has really grown on me! I'm excited for it to grow out. Hopefully all the pitchers from now on will be red which would be cool. And yeah Christian everything is jumping in size pretty significantly! A little bit of coffee goes a long way! Most of the smaller plants have only been "dosed" once. I believe it was you that showed me a photo of what N. "riddler" looks like as a more mature plant. That got me excited for it to grow up! And redtxn, I do use a small fan, but it's not on all day. I have my windows open right next to the closet and it's fairly low humidity so stagnation generally isn't an issue for me even when I have my humidifier running (which has been two or three night's throughout the week). I'd say the ambient raw humidity in my room nowadays is roughly an average of 50% without the humidifier running. If I really want to boost humidity I close the closet doors and run the humidifier. My plants are hardened off enough so they don't need to be humid all the time, but I find that a couple humid nights are beneficial to the health of the plants. I'm sure my amps are going to be happier now that they're in the covered propagation dome. They have been sitting outside in very highland weather that's much less humid than they were used to for two weeks which they really didn't appreciate, although there wasn't even any pitcher droppage so all is well

 

[Whimgrinder]

Greg,
If you think Coffee is good, then you need to try MaxSea for 6 months. Seriously. How do you think this got this big in 12 months (from a 5" seedling)??

 

[East_to_west]

I'm sold! Is there a specific variety of MaxSea that I should get?
or is it all the same??

 

[Whimgrinder]

I'm sold! Is there a specific variety of MaxSea that I should get?
or is it all the same??

Its the one Peter D'Amato offers on CC site; the 16-16-16 all-purpose. I got it through Amazon.

 

[East_to_west]

Got a BUNCH of new arrivals this week! I'll only post the ones worth looking at, but there are a few boxes worth of little ones as well.

Burb x eddy

N. alba

N. tentaculata trusmadi

Lowii x campy (Thanks Paul!!)

N. glandulifera!!

My shelf is WAY beyond capacity, so I converted this sweet terrarium into a grow chamber. It has these built in vents and a top that houses CFL's. I need to get a better light source but it has one CFL and two T8's. It has egg crate sitting over some water to raise humidity. I'm hoping that it doesn't stay too hot in there. I'm using the ghetto "frozen water bottle" technique. I would like to find a more efficient cooling method.

My first nep (ventrata), after 6 months finally decided to open a few pitchers. When it gets going, this plant is vigorous! It's opened 5 pitchers in the past week.

Spath x spec

N. ramispina

PINGS!

Vent x spectabilis "giant"

 

[mass]

Your collection just jumped from "starter" to "BIG PIMPIN'" !!!
Love your ping setup, and that burb x eddie.. I've had my burb x eddie for almost 2 years now and yours towers over mine. Love that cross..
Looking good G..

 

[mylesG]

well up till now i thought burb x eddie was just a meh hybrid but i love the color of yours! looks great

 

[East_to_west]

Some more photos and new arrivals!

Vogelii!! Thanks Jcal!

Better photo of glandulifera since I love this plant so much!

Lowii x campy

Some more photos of my new terrarium

Heres a little open air terrarium that I put together. Tentaculata gunung raja and spec x aristo starting to vine-ish

adelae plantlets

H. heterodoxa making a comeback

Some AW plants:
muluensis

lowii trusmadi

hamata clone #1

 

[Bonnie]

Very nice new additions, I'm jealous!

 

[mass]

And so begins the addictive hoarding that is nep collecting.

 

[East_to_west]

Ok! Time for a lil' update! I got some new arrivals today!

First up: (ventricosa x sibuyanensis) x TM I'm really excited about this plant. My clone looks very different than others I've seen.

The four pitchers that the plant has on it all look fairly different

Newest pitcher which is yet to color up

Next up is glandulifera x ephippiata which I'm really excited about!

ventricosa x spectabilis 'giant'

Heres a ventricosa x singalana cutting that just rooted and also flowered!

N. 'Kona' which is Sam's version of alata x truncata

purpurea collected in maine

 

[EntHerptology]

Looking great
Especially liking that sibuyanensis hybrid

 

[East_to_west]

spectabilis x singalana is starting to show more color as the pitchers age

One of the wild collected plants from Genting. Looks like this one is sanguinea x ramispina (I think)

What appears to be a pure sanguinea from the same time/location

One of my two BE ramispinas (also from Genting)

tentaculata in a moss ball

Marstons Dragon

S. readii

X Beleaziana

U. vulgaris (maybe?)

Some adeniums for a bonsai project

And a mini stepelia

 

[Ambanja]

I just love that Vent x Sib x TM & that Alata x Truncata! It seems to have really colored up for you lately, did you increase the lighting?

 

[East_to_west]

I think you may have me or the plant mistaken. I got the TM hybrid today and the truncata hybrid I bought from Max Poswillo at an LACPS meeting a few weeks ago and this is the first time I've posted it I believe. Thanks though!

 

[Wire Man]

The Stepelia is too cool!

 

[Ambanja]

I think you may have me or the plant mistaken. I got the TM hybrid today and the truncata hybrid I bought from Max Poswillo at an LACPS meeting a few weeks ago and this is the first time I've posted it I believe. Thanks though!

I'm just looking at how the pitchers changed from the older smaller duller color ones to the new larger more colorful ones. Didn't realize you just got it.

 

[East_to_west]

Oh I see! Yeah It's just inflating the first pitcher in my care, but I do know it was grown in a greenhouse. I now have it outside in full sun for a few hours a day. I've been able to adapt a lot of plants to full sun and they seem to like it. I'm really happy with this particular hybrid! I hope someday to have growing conditions like your own!