Recent content by BigBella

Thanks. The flower was from last January and had been distributed among growers just before Spring. It has yet to send up another . . .

It could take upwards of a decade or more for a Nepenthes to reach flowering maturity, from seed. My eldest seed-grown plant flowered at ten years. That said, it could easily take five to seven years for an ultra-highland cutting to the same, since they are generally slow-growing . . ...

The one that I am currently willing to part with, is a seed grown plant from 2020, about two inches across, from pitcher to pitcher . . .

I too have some young N. edwardsiana, N. hamata, as well as mature N. platychila, which satisfies that desire for a usual shape — a wide flat peristome with prominent stripes . . .

"Old?" OLD?!

You're just not doing enough. Surely, you can rescue a couple of Home Despot Nepenthes mutts, a capensis or two, to round out that paltry collection. Looks too, like a varmint has invaded your house . . .

Wow, what a nice refuge you have from DC "da capitol" and the scourge of the covidiots. I really think that you need a gun-rack for your Mini and that dingo mix from The Road Warrior . . .

Mine are grown, either, on a south-facing windowsill or outside; receive bright to diffused light; very high humidity; and cool to cold nights. The species, in my opinion, is about as particular and almost as slow-growing as N. villosa; grows along with them, as a matter of fact -- and are...

Wow, it's amazing how well your scale model of Southeast Asia, managed the trip East. Virginia has no idea what has just arrived within its borders . . .