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  • #21
They're quite ugly when young, huh? Hopefully mature pitchers will prove out as proper echino's and make up for the limp lettuce leaves :D
Even my own have yet to produce anything striking, or any pitchers more than 1.5" tall....
 
  • #22
Hey Christer, was waiting to respond to you with something you might like. It seems like these MT plants take a long time to settle in.

Maybe takes some time to get started, but seeing pics of this species, it is worth the wait. I haven't been able to track one down yet.

Despite quickly approaching a foot across in diameter, I am humbled by the fact that wild N. chaniana pitchers easily get that tall

It seems to do well for you. With some luck you will have a plant like this in a few years : )

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I will probably get another chaniana to try as well. Apparently from the same location as the MT clone, but from another source. Noticed your kongkandana. I have been pondering a while now if I should get one of those, might let one tag along on the same order. It seems to take forever for this species to get published, thus making the name official.

Regards,

Christer
 
  • #23
They're quite ugly when young, huh? Hopefully mature pitchers will prove out as proper echino's and make up for the limp lettuce leaves :D
Even my own have yet to produce anything striking, or any pitchers more than 1.5" tall....

Haha, the nice thing about thin leaves is that the plant doesn't spend time making a waxy cuticle. These lowlanders grow much faster than I expected.

Maybe takes some time to get started, but seeing pics of this species, it is worth the wait. I haven't been able to track one down yet.

It seems to do well for you. With some luck you will have a plant like this in a few years : )

I will probably get another chaniana to try as well. Apparently from the same location as the MT clone, but from another source. Noticed your kongkandana. I have been pondering a while now if I should get one of those, might let one tag along on the same order. It seems to take forever for this species to get published, thus making the name official.

Regards,

Christer

Hey Christer, I'm glad that you were right. This is, by far, the nicest pitcher N. faizaliana is actually N. maxima Borone has ever made for me (even with the crooked lid). The plant is quite tall but shows no inclination to vine just yet, which is a shame since I think the uppers on this species are much nicer.
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Here is the most recent pitcher on the N. chaniana MT. This plant seems to throw out squatter pitchers.

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I am sad to say that it is still growing strangely. I cannot be sure but it seems like warm nights of 60 F coincide with smaller leaves and leaf notching, as this has happened every summer for me. I was hoping that the plant was out of its awkward phase...

N. kongkandana should be a nice addition. This is a picture of the plant my cutting came from.

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BE N. chaniana growing strong

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Putting on size quickly

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N. glandulifera -- new pitcher!

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Every new leaf is bigger on the N. villosa despite the warmish days and nights of August
 
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  • #24
Its getting there! Yeah, the uppers are very nice. When I saw the pic in Clarke's book of the pitcher with the sun bird perched on it, it went on my want-list. Nice color on that kongkandana pitcher. N. glandulifera is also on my want-list. I noticed that BE had bred their plants, and had seedlings. Unfortunately, I have yet to find a European source on them. In 2004 I had the opportunity to get seedlings of that one, and N. platychila. Since both were quite expensive, I only got the latter. I hadn't anticipated that N. glandulifera would be the more difficult species to acquire the coming years.

Regards,

Christer
 
  • #25
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N. chaniana BE -- seems like the pink flush is decreasing quickly; not sure if it's due to warm nights or growing up, but I think it's the latter.

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N. glandulifera -- another new pitcher; this plant grows much faster than either of the N. chaniana plants :-O

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N. nigra recently doubled its pitcher size -- looks like it's teething
 
  • #26
OH god. Dat photo quality
 
  • #27
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N. villosa with teeth -- that was faster than I thought.
 
  • #28
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Woah! This one is beautiful!
 
  • #29
Woah! This one is beautiful!
Thanks, I think that the Nepenthes clipeata-ish look that it has makes up for the fact that it's such a slow grower.
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I recently lost a bunch of plants, mostly cuttings, to an unfortunate accident. Alas, life goes on (although I'm willing to bet that they're not going to be easy to replace)...

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N. chaniana MT, looking much the same as ever. It was very hard to get it out of the rack today because it's about one foot across now.

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N. chaniana BE -- the pink flush has disappeared despite the increasing light of a low-hanging autumnal sun.

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N. glandulifera BE -- decided that red was a good look (also glands, which just appeared)

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N. boschiana Sakumbang -- first pitcher in my care

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Plain old N. ventricosa

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Plain old N. graciliflora

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Another common one -- N. fusca x maxima (I think this is the same thing as N. "Gentle")

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I've never been able to capture the color well on this one; N. 'Peter D'Amato' x maxima
 
  • #30
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N. chaniana BE

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N. boschiana Sakumbang

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N. graciliflora

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N. clipeata x (clipeata x eymae)

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N. nigra
 
  • #31
Nice to see n.chaniana growing well,especially when I look at my sorry specimen
 
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  • #33
lovely photos, i hope my chaniana ends up being that nice
 
  • #34
That is a really nice looking clone!!
As far as I know, it's not a clone (not a tissue culture one, anyways); it came from a cutting in a botanical garden. Here's an upper from the mother plant. It's like a pale N. ventricosa Red more than any of the porcelain types.
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lovely photos, i hope my chaniana ends up being that nice
Thanks. If the N. chaniana came from BE, it'll be exactly the same as they only have one clone. It's growing up to be quite a nice one though.
 
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  • #35
If that ventricosa ever makes a basal or you root a cutting, make sure you give me a call! I'd be willing to pay for it!

A ventricosa shockingly similar to that one is the plant that got me into Nepenthes, and ive been on a hunt to get my hands on one.
 
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  • #36
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N. chaniana MT

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In the handful of years it took me to grow out the MT clone, the BE one has practically caught up in 6 months.

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N. chaniana x veitchii

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N. glandulifera -- looks like I got one of the runts of the litter, but it's getting there.

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After I killed my N. pervillei :)cuss:) I dismantled my lowland setup and pitched my lowlanders into the highland rack. Most of them didn't seem to notice, but N. albomarginata is pretty fussy and slow; it's just starting to grow again.

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N. sanguinea intermediate -- this is the Agristarts clone as far as I know.

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I ordered some plants from a retailer in Massachusetts in October; they came with earthworms, root rot, and scale. One of them died very quickly, the other one is this N. vogelii. The growth point is shot now but it did throw out this pitcher recently. I sent the company an email with my concerns, but alas, it went unanswered (they still send me promotional deals for frogs though...).

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One of the N. aff. bongso that originally came from Paul. I think it has some N. izumiae in it.

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N. ventricosa -- a little worn out

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N. graciliflora intermediate

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I don't know why people complain about N. Ventrata. Thanks again, Corey!
 
  • #37
Hi,

The chanianas look great (the others too). I got another chaniana from BCP, actually received several small plants. Appear healthy, and the biggest pitcher have a reddish blush. Should disappear as it grows bigger though. I finally managed to get my hands on a N. glandulifera. Also small, but I can't complain about the growth rate. Hopefully that will increase even more, when I will be able to feed the first pitcher. Too bad about the vogelli. Mine have not prospered, started to grow two side shoots. I finally cut one off, and have rooted it. I am now testing to grow the other in lower humidity, to see if that might be a solution.

Regards,

Christer
 
  • #38
Hi,

The chanianas look great (the others too). I got another chaniana from BCP, actually received several small plants. Appear healthy, and the biggest pitcher have a reddish blush. Should disappear as it grows bigger though. I finally managed to get my hands on a N. glandulifera. Also small, but I can't complain about the growth rate. Hopefully that will increase even more, when I will be able to feed the first pitcher. Too bad about the vogelli. Mine have not prospered, started to grow two side shoots. I finally cut one off, and have rooted it. I am now testing to grow the other in lower humidity, to see if that might be a solution.

Regards,

Christer

N. glandulifera is a pretty quick grower for me compared to N. chaniana, and mine is big enough to feed now, so I'm seeing a decent increase in size. Stripes are also setting in. I haven't heard of anyone really having trouble with N. vogelii, so I hope that ours pull through. I have also moved my N. vogelii to a drier and more ventilated spot to keep growth point dry.
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N. nigra -- I guess that the colors come in like N. hamata: slowly

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N. bongso -- I'm not familiar with the Nepenthes of Sumatra, so the concept of N. bongso/singalana/izumiae is fuzzy for me. The lamina is practically identical to my N. x Pyriformis. But teeth! :-O

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N. faizaliana -- this plant has always stressed for me over the winter, might be because it's too bright and cool. Still getting malformed pitchers... (also I wasn't aware that this species made appendages at the tip of the lid like N. fusca, I thought that it was limited to the basal lid crest in N. faizaliana)
EDIT 7/18/15: this plant is actually N. maxima Borone
 
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  • #39
Glad to hear N.nigra/hamata take a while to start coloring up. I was kind of worried I got a dud since my N.hamata x burkei is the same color as your nigra.
 
  • #40
Glad to hear N.nigra/hamata take a while to start coloring up. I was kind of worried I got a dud since my N.hamata x burkei is the same color as your nigra.
Several years ago, when I was younger and greener, I did have an AW N. hamata (now deceased :cuss: ):
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All of the AW clones get the nice dark purple mottling the species is known for later on. Actually, N. nigra seems to take less time to color up than N. hamata, as the N. hamata in this picture was larger and still completely green compared to the N. nigra I have now that's showing red spots and streaks.
 
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