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H. Minor - Old Reliable

carnivoure12

Hear the Call of Nepenthes
Hey everyone,

My Nepenthes my favourite genus of CP's have been letting me down because i keep watering my terrium neps too much, and have had a few loses.

However here's my favourite plant i have in the terrium it has never skip[ped a beat no matter what conditions its suffered. I really enjoy this plant, and grows very nicely. Its old reliable, has never let me down!

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Needs to be divided though!

when I got it a year ago

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Carn: Very nice plant, I wish I had some Helis. :)

On a side note: I'm glad you don't use the trashy sheet moss, like in the last photo, anymore.
 
Very nice. :) It surely has a grown a lot.
 
Clue its actually still in that trashy moss i just threw a single live sphagnum strand and it now has grown as a top layer, the rest is that trashy moss. :p
 
Clue its actually still in that trashy moss i just threw a single live sphagnum strand and it now has grown as a top layer, the rest is that trashy moss. :p

*Gasps in horror*
 
Love Helis! Good growing.
 
beauty of a plant, and don't divide it! MAKE IT HUGE!
 
Nice growing there, can't wait for mine to get that big.
 
Another storm coming, time for pics. :-O The cooler weather has been kind to my little H. minor's. Here are 3 pics of my largest from today:
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What I would have given for 1) manual focus & 2) controllable depth-of-field. :-( Heli's have so many photogenic aspects to them.... I definitely see a DSLR in my future....

Not a Heli but here's a little bonus - U. nephrophylla flower. There was no detectable wind outside when I went out but that tall spindly stalk moved with every infinitesimally tiny breath mother nature let out. Took over 30 pics & only one was close to being in focus ...
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.... and a hint of other blooms to come .....
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  • #10
I would also suggest waiting to divide the H. minor until perhaps next year. Wait for it to produce a thick network of roots . . .
 
  • #11
Looks good carn, also love!! the helis.
 
  • #12
I would also suggest waiting to divide the H. minor until perhaps next year. Wait for it to produce a thick network of roots . . .
I'm guessing that this comment is for Carnivoure12 ... :scratch: since I don't really have any plans to divide this plant anytime soon (the last 3 Heli pics are not the same as those posted earlier...).

My apologies for the confusion though - rather than start a new thread, I just grabbed a not-too-old H. minor thread to pop some new pics in. I now see the error of my ways ... :crap:
 
  • #13
Wow, great Helis!
 
  • #14
Update on my H. Minor (old reliable)

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  • #15
Beautiful!

H.minor has always been a favorite of mine . . .
 
  • #16
Oh my...! When you say it needs division, you mean it :p
 
  • #17
Hi Bigbella, thank you very much! I love it too, it has inspired me to aquire a H. Neblinae. This is an easy growing heli, and had never let me down. Those dead picthers didn't like the stronger lights and shrivelled, the rest were made after.

Needs a repotting though.

Oh And thanks Mr. Matei of the Sarrsdale ;)
 
  • #18
Hi Bigbella, thank you very much! I love it too, it has inspired me to aquire a H. Neblinae. This is an easy growing heli, and had never let me down. Those dead picthers didn't like the stronger lights and shrivelled, the rest were made after.

Needs a repotting though.

Oh And thanks Mr. Matei of the Sarrsdale ;)

I would let that plant fill the pot even further. When I saw H. minor and H. pulchella in the wild back in the 1990s, you cannot believe how thick and tight the clumps were with almost no compost; that, and it also looks the best that way . . .
 
  • #19
very nicely done C12...

:)
 
  • #20
It has been a while since I posted an update on my minor.

When I first recieved it, it was small, and didn't have much colour. It went into a growth spurt, then its starting dividing into new plants.

Well fuelled by the urge to divide it over the irrational fear of it dying in a cramped pot I divided it into individual plants. Well it didn't go very well. Only the mature division and a smaller one survived.

This month they've finally started more active growing, here are some pics of it today ( It's not even the shadow of if its past self, however, it keeps proving to be a old reliable and I'm sure soons enough I'll have another lush minor! and this time I'm not going to let the flower scape burn when it flower!

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