Ampullaria Brunei Red Update

[Nepenthes]

I just cleaned out my Lowland tank and figured I would snap some pics. I initially cut up my Amp Brunei Red mother and it was looking haggard, I thought I would lose it. It looked worse than it does in this first pic, as it was missing more leaves than that pictured, and the remaining 5 leaves or so were REAL ugly. I kept a cutting which has grown real nicely... today however I noticed that my mother Amp has recovered with a vengeance and is starting a basal rosette mania.

The Mother

The Cutting

Daniel

 

[vraev]

Wow! Fantastic! How many tanks do u have daniel?? WOW! I thought you had a highland tank only.

PS: DO u mind me asking....and others especially ol' timers like glider, PK, JLP and so on please pitch in as well.... How much do u guys spend or have spent on neps alone? The reason I am asking is I am thinking of adding more plants (eg: small aristo = 40$) which brings my total to nearly a 120$ +. The most I have ever ever spent on plants. Of course..if I add up all my plants it will be over this value....but I never spent this much at once...the most I spent was a 100 for getting my 3 neps from BE last year.

 

[Maxx]

Man, I want a brunei so bad!

 

[Nepenthes]

Hehe thanks Varun . I have 4 40gallon breeder tanks, 3 20gallon high tanks, and 2 5gallon mini tanks. If I wasn't renting I would have built a greenhouse instead, but oh well.

I have spent more money on Neps than I care to think about (probably a few grand). I haven't spent as much as a lot of people out there, but I have blown a lot of cash on plants lately (esp. since I've only been collecting for about 14 months or so). I've been thinking about ordering from Germany, but then I finalized my list came out to 420$, for 2 Hamatas, 2 Macrophyllas, 1 Flava, 1 Amp Giant, and 5 Veitchii x lowii. Gotta love that weak American Dollar. That's kinda pricey for 11 plants (fresh out of TC) but I might go ahead and order anyway. Nepenthes addiction sucks lol. Oh well, at least I'm not buying drugs or something.

Daniel

 

[vraev]

wow! Macro, hamata, flava?? thats a heck of a drooling combo there. Damn Daniel! Thats a **** load of money. lol! I guess my 120$ isn't that bad after all. lol!

 

[Its_a_friday]

i'm envious, my ampullaria grows in 80%+ humidity, 75F+ temp, sits on my sunniest windowsill, and has yet to produce a single pitcher

 

[Nepenthes]

Thanks for the comments everyone . I am really starting to love this plant now that it is finally doing something for me. When I first got it, it did nothing for about 4-5 months.

i'm envious, my ampullaria grows in 80%+ humidity, 75F+ temp, sits on my sunniest windowsill, and has yet to produce a single pitcher

Mine used to grow under T5 lights, but for the last month has been under T8s (6- 4' bulbs). I also keep the humidity above 80%, but I would say maybe even 90%. I don't have a hygrometer in that tank anymore because it was constantly getting so wet and stopped working. I do keep the lowland tank really hot too. I use a water heater and a pool of water under eggcrate. When I open the tank I can feel the hot humid air hit me. So far everything is growing real nice in it. Especially Effulgent Koto. That plant grows almost too fast for my tastes. I had to cut it back some. Anyway, I would shoot for a consistent 80+F, maybe this will help. Just a suggestion though, I'm still a newb .

Daniel

 

[Nitecrawler]

Ampullaria is so sweet..
I want one so badly.

 

[vraev]

wow man! damn! I don't even want to try lowlanders in any high capacity. The only single lowlander I have (of my 6 neps lol! ) is a bicalcarata. Reason for not going into lowlanders is that they get huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge and grow fast. lol! The more and more I see it....I prefer slow growing highland neps like lowii, rajah and so on. lmao! Basically plants that are slow as mountains. The bical growing in less than optimal conditions also grows pretty slow so that is good enough for me. If there are a couple of lowlanders I would love to get : campanulata, northiana. But I am pretty sure providing the conditions for the northiana is as hard as emulating ultra highland conditions.

But good job mate! keep it up.

 

[Nitecrawler]

That's true, there's no way I could give that plant what it needs.

Too much trouble.

 

[nightsky]

Great plant. Lots of healthy pitchers open at once - I like.

 

[MrFus]

Hey due the fact that we are talking about ampullaria, there is something that I want to ask...

How long the pitchers on ampullarias last?

I ask this because is going to be soon 1 year since I get my ampullaria (green form) and still have pitchers from when I get it... I think I have cut 2 or 3 dried pitchers only.

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[Nepenthes]

I haven't had any of my Amps for a year, but from what I've read from others, they can last to well over a year. Keep us posted and let us know how long yours last .