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nepenthes gracilis
Nepenthes Specialist
We have a large female bicalcarata, "Big Mama", that is more than three feet across. I'll measure her when I get home tonight. I would take a picture of her, but don't have a digital camera. I'm stuck in the twentieth century with a Nikon F3 and a bunch of expensive Nikkor lenses, so I shoot transparencies. A friend of mine has a Coolpix, so maybe I can borrow it.
Snowy Falcon saw her during the summer. She's even bigger now. Michelle (my wife) gives her about a gallon of water every other day-growing in LFSphag., in a five gallon pot. The main vine is like a broom handle. I'll need a chainsaw when I take cuttings.
Trent
Snowy Falcon saw her during the summer. She's even bigger now. Michelle (my wife) gives her about a gallon of water every other day-growing in LFSphag., in a five gallon pot. The main vine is like a broom handle. I'll need a chainsaw when I take cuttings.
Trent
nepenthes gracilis
Nepenthes Specialist
Here's the "big one" and the smaller one, nothing compared by the sounds of it to Trent's big female, but I hoep mine will be there someday
These plants are housed in an indoor lowland grow chamber. The temperate at the highest is 25.7C or 78.2F on average and lows are around 63F or 17.3C
My "mammoth"
Little one
My "mammoth"
Little one
mine is about half again bigger than your 'little one' and it's a 'red/orange' variant... I think also called a 'blusher'...
pitchers are about two inches tall...
it's in my terrarium, I have come to the conclusion the terrarium is great for little plants, but stifles growth on larger ones... as soon as I have an alternative, it's gonna get ripped apart and the plants will get a new potted home.
pitchers are about two inches tall...
it's in my terrarium, I have come to the conclusion the terrarium is great for little plants, but stifles growth on larger ones... as soon as I have an alternative, it's gonna get ripped apart and the plants will get a new potted home.
My enormous one was nearly 2 meters in diameter with 20 x 15 cm cm pitchers and begining to climb this last August when I repotted (and subsequently killed it by doing so). My apologies to you folks who were waiting for cuttings that were supposed to be available from it this upcoming summer!
So my current N. bicals are 35 cm in diameter with 8 cm pitchers.
So my current N. bicals are 35 cm in diameter with 8 cm pitchers.
I have her in a greenhouse.
All you growers up north have cool nights to grow highlanders, but our warm humid summers here in south Florida is perfect for species like bicalcarata, ampullaria, rafflesiana, even merriliana and sumatrana. Maxima and khasiana are the only highlanders that tolerate our warm summer nights. Veitchii and fusca struggle. Right now our highland plants are starting to look good because of the cool nights, yet species like bical and amp remain unaffected.
Trent
All you growers up north have cool nights to grow highlanders, but our warm humid summers here in south Florida is perfect for species like bicalcarata, ampullaria, rafflesiana, even merriliana and sumatrana. Maxima and khasiana are the only highlanders that tolerate our warm summer nights. Veitchii and fusca struggle. Right now our highland plants are starting to look good because of the cool nights, yet species like bical and amp remain unaffected.
Trent
nepenthes gracilis
Nepenthes Specialist
Here' a full pic of it: Beautiful it is not, but serve my purposes it does! All it is consisting of are 2 4 ft shop light fixtures with alternating tubes (4 total) of warm and cool whites. The warms were 3300 lumens and the cool whites must be close to that so I'm guessing a total of about 13,200 lumens is being given to the plants at a distance of about 1 foot to 1 foot and a half. (30 to 45 cm away). They are connected to a timer for summer hours, so my house is lit up after daylight hours quite well!
The chamber consists of simple plastic garbage bags heavily sealed with tape together over a metal vinyl coated frame. I have numerous white cardboard reflectors on the chamber to minimize light loss. The heat is supplied by the radiator in the back and keeps the chamber very toasty at about 80F in the day down to 70 or even 65F at night depends upon how much the furnace runs.
