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I use it in a mixture with other things. I've recently tried using it to grow seedlings, as it can be soaked in boiling water to sterilise it, and I've found it works very well. Keeps the rate of...

I looks like the Penang spotted form

Mine are a light purple.

I've got some tips on my website. Obviously there are big differences in highland and lowland seed, and I specialise in highland species. Seedlings will grow in very low light levels for many months,...

Tentaculata are not hard to grow, it's just that they need high humidity to pitcher well. There are lowland forms, intermediate forms and highland forms. I've grown several highland forms from seed...

Germinating them is really easy, getting them to survive their 1st year is the hard part...

Generic conditions for tentaculata are hard to give. It is widespread, found at lowland altitudes to ultra-highland altitudes, so will need the relevant conditions from where it was collected. It is...

Possible. There aren't that many flowering Trusmadiensis around, there are a couple here in Australia, a couple in Germany. I don't know if Jeff Shafer's is at that size yet.

I think it's a Phill Mann hybrid

Isn't that actually veitchii x Trusmadiensis. I'm pretty sure all the flowering trusmadiensis have been male in cultivation.

Marcello, it's a pity that most of the stuff went to Wistuba, it means those of us in Australia and New Zealand won't see it for at least 10 years...

I think it is spectacular. For a start, the colour. It is a deep red, which is not too common amongst Nepenthes. Secondly the peristome is nice and flared. Thirdly it is quite hirsute. Fourtly, the...

I've found it intolerant of constant warm temperatures, especially at night. It grows best as a highlander.

Not copelandii, that species has petiolate leaves for a start.

As srduggins noted, Peninsular Malaysian species (in particular ramispina, macfarlanei and sanguinea) hybridise extremely readily in the wild. Accordingly, plants grown from seed collected in the...

Robin, we always love your pics. The more I see it, the more I'm convinced that particular Wistuba macrophylla clone is a hybrid. The BE clone shows oyu what pure macrophylla should look like.
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My lowii x veitchii does that a reasonable amount - the pitcher lid will open prematurely but it continues to grow into a full sized pitcher.

BTW, there's no such thing as an odd question. Only...

I tried posting these in the picture thread, but it seems not to want to go above 30 pages...

These are some amps I imported from Borneo Exotics. Not the greatest pics as the greenhouse was hot...

Please remember that Trusmadiensis is a very generalist epithet, and refers to both lowii x macrophylla, and macrophylla x lowii. Reverse crosses do show significant differences. Add to that some...

Joe, I grow the albomarginata "purple/black" and it's a light purple, lighter than gracilis var nigropurpurea for example. The only species that would get closest to being black (and remember, no...

If it's cheap, it'll be a lowland truncata. They have been in cultivation for decades. The highland version is a more recent discovery, and costs more. The highland species is easier to grow in...

Not really. Exotica hardly wants to give their secrets away, they make money from growing better plants than just about anyone else.

Well, fertilising Neps is nothing new. Exotica Plants has been doing it for ages with fantastic results, other growers I know have been fertilising for a while with good results, and I have been...

BE had 2 clones, and it discontinued one. Wistuba only has about 4. I don't know how many Malesiana Tropicals has.

Good luck! Every hamata I have, and that everyone I know has, has turned out to be male. I don't know how many clones are in cultivation, but I'm not too optimistic about a girl popping up.