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Post by H20 on Jan 6, 2012 22:18:55 GMT -5
I thought I would add some pictures that I've already uploaded. Nepenthes veitchii (k)     Nepenthes rafflesiana  This plant was in need of transplating so it had no pitcher, as soon as I repotted him it threw out some huge pitchers, I'll have to find the pictures though.  I don't grow highlanders anymore but thought I would throw up some pictures from before Nepenthes singalana 'tujuh'  Nepenthes singalana 'belirang'  Nepenthes inermis  |
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Post by 31drew31 on Jan 6, 2012 23:49:58 GMT -5
Great photos Justin! The photo of the truncata is a good representation of how large it really gets. From the logo on your shirt I am guessing this was grown at a butterfly garden in ON?
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Post by H20 on Jan 7, 2012 9:52:04 GMT -5
Haha good guess, it is a butterfly gardens but it's the one in Victoria where I used to work.
That Nepenthes truncata is fairly large, but should get slightly larger, it flowers every year and there is a cross a friend did with it. Do you remember that female plant tha I used in my failed cross? Well that's the one, I think they're going to be amazing! Just got to let them grow up a little.
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Post by 31drew31 on Jan 7, 2012 11:48:39 GMT -5
Never realized you lived in Victoria. I have actually been to those gardens before, quite nice.
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Post by christerb on Jan 8, 2012 16:07:42 GMT -5
Beautiful plants, Justin!
Those veitchiis' looks great, I love the stocky pitchers, and how can you go wrong with striped peristomes. The lovely raff upper pitcher is something I would expect from growers in the southern hemisphere, who can grow neps outdoors yearlong. Any pics of your set-up somewhere?
Regards,
Christer
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Post by H20 on Jan 26, 2012 21:43:38 GMT -5
Drew, I used to live in Victoria while my wife was going to school and then moved back to Ontario. Now I'm moving back to Victoria to work at the gardens full time, we'll be leaving in April  Christer, I'll have to post a picture of my current setup before I move. I agree that its something you usually see from people in southeast Asia but I got lucky and my plant was a nice clone as well as a fast grower, on the downside I have to make each tendril attach to something or it won't pitcher *sigh* the things is do for it. I think this plant will be making its home in the conservatory where I will be working, it should get massive in no time. |
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Post by jamesh on Jan 28, 2012 19:17:14 GMT -5
Great looking plants. I am just starting to get my nepenthes collection back up and going. You said that you were no longer growing highland type nepenthes why is that?
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Post by H20 on Jan 30, 2012 15:07:03 GMT -5
that awesome that your getting your collection up again.
I got rid of my collection of Highlanders for several reasons, the main reason was that the long term viability of a Highland collection will always need a larger amount of room once everything grows. I just wasn't prepared to commit the time and space when I have other groups of plants going as well.
The second lesser reason was that I wanted to use the 1/4HP aquarium chiller to grow Disa uniflora haha
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