Bragging competition......

[Pyro]

The only one that seemed to not like the low humidity was the ventricosa. Its pitchers reduced in size. Everyone else pitchered fine.

 

[Travis]

Pyro,
Well that stinks! That is the only kind of pitcher plant (ventricosa) I have

...

 

[Parasuco]

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*falls out of chair*

HAAAH!

 

[Pyro]

Down to 4" from 6" isn't a huge drop and they always rebound when they get outside for the summer.

 

[nepenthes gracilis]

Travis, well my ventricosa is now in the big greenhouse in the sky..it is now a neps-icle.  

 

[Spectabilis73]

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Really? That explains the green slime-guts-green glowing alien blood I've been seeing on my 2 scorpiodes I got from Zach!!!

ok, now the bragging:
My nepenthes rajah has no pitchers.

My nepenthes clipeata has new shiny green growth on it!

(YAY!!! )
Nepenthes ventrincosa has 4 inch pitchers and a basal shoot coming out of the base of the plant near the soil (hehe)
nepenthes alata has green and red speckeled pitchers! (how odd!

)
Nepenthes rafflesiana has a zillion pitchers (ok, 5, 1 every week or 2, but it's still good enough to brag about!

)

 

[Guest]

My N. bicalcarata is so big it could wrestle a Grizzly bare-leaved and win!  

 

Ok.. so maybe that's too much of an exaggeration..

Fine.. I'll just go back to dreaming of the day when I'll genetically engineer a Utric that's large enough to catch King Salmon.. or ex boyfriend.. heh  

 

[FlytrapGurl]

My nep died a couple months ago... Can we have something like this in the pitcher plants forum?

 

[Guest]

I'd like to boast that I once had a rare N. rafflesiana "Sarawak Giant" with a 3' stem and the last pitcher produced was 8".  By the time my stupid mother sends it to me, im sure it'll be dead

  

AAAHHHHHHHAHH.  

 

[Dyflam]

My dog barks some...

 

[Travis]

My nep is still alive...I am still in the competition

. I do not see a ventricosa winning thee ultimate bragging rights...

Unless I have live 3 big pitchers on one stem but that is not going to happen very likely

.

Well that is to bad what happend to your ventricosa Nep. G.

I remember that post back in the day.

travis

 

[Tim]

My N. ventricosa has just signed a 5 million dollar contract to become an underware model.

 

[nepenthes gracilis]

Ah, the Sarawak Giant rafflesiana...what a beaut. Hopefully it will make it for you....

Travis, ah at least it wasn't something rarer like loosing a rajah or lowii or something. It can be replaced easily.

 

[Frederick]

The moss that grows on the epiphytic orchids which invade
my Nepenthes collection is fluent in Hebrew and can wistle
Rachmaninov's third backwards.
Which is nice.

 

[Khai]

I have a rash.

 

[The Griffin]

Khai,

Try pouring the fluid of an unopened Nepenthes pitcher on it and lets see how well some of the lore actually works!

Joe

 

[Tim]

I did this during the Egyptian Third Dynasty, and I still look 40 years old.

 

[Andenes]

Something is sooooooooo wrong with my ventricosa. Its soooo weird. In the moorning its pitchers are fully open and hard; in the afternoon the pitchers are totally closed

Then in the night the pitchers re-open againg
Weird hu?

 

[nepenthes gracilis]

Sounds like sudden plummet in humidity and/or a spike in extreme temps.

 

[sarracenialuver]

My ventrata 8 new pitchers grow and open in 1 1/2 months

, my N. Ventricosa has a vine with 3 tendril loops I think its pretty wierd, but the leaf is starting to die