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The Trouble With Termites…

Aside from the obvious, they will eat your house, it is expensive to have your house fumigated to kill them. Then to add insult to injury, if you happen to raise fish and / or plants in or around your house it gets even worse because the chemicals that kill the termites also kill plants and animals. So what is normally inconvenient, becomes a real pain in the backside…

An empty shadehouse is a very lonely sight
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All the nepenthes and air plants had to be moved into temporary shelter in the back yard
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Then comes the tent…
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Two days later things are more or less back to normal
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Since I had to move everything anyhow I took the opportunity to rearrange a bit and take photos…

N ventricosa x maxima
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N alata
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N ampullaria Cantley's Red
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N ampullaria Harlequin
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N ampullaria Brunei Red
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N x poi dog
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N x lang
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N veitchii xx tiveyi x truncata
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N x effulgent koto
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N bellii
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N x puna
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N clipeata x eymae
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N x Karen Marie
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N maxima
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N truncata “Queen of Hearts” x “King of Spades” seedling
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N spectabilis x ventricosa rooted basal
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N x Maggie Jones rooted basal
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N bicalcarata
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N x gentle
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N thorelii x merrilliana
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N x leessii (this pitcher has amazing color; sorry, my poor photo skills do not do it justice)
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Cuttings
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Beautiful gecko that scared me half to death as I was trying to reconstitute the shadehouse
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N truncata x maxima
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N globosa x hirsuta
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N sp #1
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Seedlings
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N truncata
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N tobaica x talangensis
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N maxima xx trusmadiensis
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N veitchii
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N sibuyanensis x maxima
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N albomarginata
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N x weigneri
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N Viking x mirabilis
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N maxima x boschiana
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N thorelii x truncata
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N ramispina
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N rafflesiana
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N x rokko
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N macfarlanei
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N x outramiana
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N x red leopard
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N x wittei
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N copelandii Apo
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nice plants :) glad to hear the termites are gone, hate the little things so freaking much
 
Party in the tent!
 
what kind of termites? drywood or ground? if ground I hope they got the bait stations set up....

What did one Hawaiian termite say to the other? "We go eat my house"
 
Wow! Lots of good pictures! lol That gecko is NOT short of food is he? Fat little guy!
 
Great looking plants but apparently that N. albomarginata isn't doing it's job huh? ;)

How awesome would it be to have cool little lizards like that darting around? I have a brown Anole which hatched from a potted plant I got off ebay three years ago but she's not nearly as pretty as that Gecko!
 
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We had treated for ground termites a couple of years ago; this was dry wood termites that we had to treat for. The termites are a real pain, but it is one of the things you have to put up with in the tropics.

Swords: You are right, I will have to have a serious talk with the N. albomarginatas about this issue. As for the gecko, he is really cool. I have tons of common geckos and anoles; but so far this is the only gecko I have seen with these markings. I wish I had more he is really cool, but he about made me drop a whole tray of plants when he jumped out of a crack int he bench...
 
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Killer plants!

I didn't know that there was a "highland" mirabilis... I need to get one of those. :p
 
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All of your plants are B-E-A-U-T-I-F-U-L!!!Grow somemore albos and they'll eat the termites xD
 
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Clue: sorry for the confusion, but the HL is for Hot Lips, not highland.... This is a lowland plant. Again, sorry for the confusion.
 
  • #14
Your plants look really nice. Thanks for sharing the pics. I guess you'll be glad to get everything back in place. My dad had to tent the house every so often when I was a kid in Florida, and it was always a pain.
 
  • #15
Thanks for the kind words Glen! Everything is pretty well back in place and the temp home in the back yard is torn down and put away. It really was a pain moving everything, made worse by my wife taking the opportunity to tell me how much it was my own fault for having too many plants...
 
  • #16
You're welcome. I was glad to see that some of the plants I sent you were doing so well. The N. veitchii looks pretty happy. That one really deserved to have a good home. I abused it by moving it around too much after it got too big for my LL plant case, and it didn't seem to like me trying to make it into a house plant.
 
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Clue: sorry for the confusion, but the HL is for Hot Lips, not highland.... This is a lowland plant. Again, sorry for the confusion.

Lol, I find it funny... Hot Lips and highland... :-))
 
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Yeah, I was excited about the highland mirabilis too! I was like oooh, winged tendril, neat!
 
  • #19
Glen,

The N veitchii really surprised me; it didn't even skip a beat and seems to be very happy. I was surprised again when I started moving the plants to find the big pitcher hiding against the back wall, which is probably why it is a bit pale.
 
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