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Post by Flytrap on Mar 26, 2006 17:31:03 GMT -5
I've got a bit of my CPs up onto my website: www.generasian.ca/cp_home.htmlI'll work on some more images and expand my site throughout the next few weeks.
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Post by kenboorman on Mar 26, 2006 22:20:57 GMT -5
Nice site - I look forward to the expansion Ken
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Post by Flytrap on Apr 4, 2006 1:11:21 GMT -5
Just shot a few pics tonight ... the first two have now been identified as belonging to the same species "group": Nep Maxima. When I first got them, they were thought of as two separate species: N. Curtisii (left) and N. fusca (some consider it a variant of maxima (right): . . the next two are two different N xhookeriana plants I grew from seeds. I collected the seeds in Johore, Malaysia in 1997 and sowed the seeds in summer 1998. The germination rate was over 90%, and I literally had hundreds, if not thousands of these plantlets. I gave most of them away, and the rest slowly perished due to neglect. I never bothered photographing these pitchers before...but here they are now for everyone's viewing enjoyment: an old dried up pitcher from last year, was 4" tall (left); and a new young pitcher around 1.5" tall (right): . . The last image is N. singalana, a highland beauty with a nice peristome. It's pitchers aren't very large, but they are fast and prolific "pitcherers"...popping a new pitcher once a day. During the summer this little plant may be festooned with over 50 pitchers (with a nicer deeper maroon colouring upon advent of the summer sun). My N. singalana is now in bloom, along with a bunch of other Neps. I'll have a look to see if they're boys or girls and maybe start to pollinate some of them. (I haven't done this in awhile).
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Post by Flytrap on Apr 4, 2006 1:21:34 GMT -5
oops I forgot to mention that my N. singalana has survived a couple of days of frost (back in Spring 2001?), as did my villosa and veitchii when I forgot them outside overnight after "de-scaling" it. I had also left my albomarginata and bicalcarata out that same evening, and they perished Wish I weren't so forgetful sometimes.
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Post by mabudon on Apr 4, 2006 5:55:58 GMT -5
Man, those are some sweet pics- that mess o' Darlingtonia is beautiful, and the pics of your pond with the S.flava and your friends stand of Sarrs are nigh indescribable, thanks for posting them!!
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Post by Flytrap on Apr 4, 2006 11:37:33 GMT -5
Thanks Mabudon. I'm still waiting for my scanner to arrive at my front door so I can scan some more old slides for all to view. One of the most incredible image is one of a darlingtonia approx. 4' tall growing out of my friend's bog in Seattle.
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Post by tom on Apr 5, 2006 19:05:25 GMT -5
Wow, nice pictures, you make me wish I'll try to build that Nep terrarium soon, or get them to pitchers in a way or another (they seems are reluctant to since i moved in...).
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Post by Flytrap on Apr 9, 2006 18:28:14 GMT -5
A few more photos today: Nepenthes hamata Cephalotus follicularis Both these characters look as if it's a "Bad Hair day"! N. hamata Drosera regia (note penny) And more from Kay's collection:N. maxima Darlingtonia californica
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Post by Flytrap on Apr 15, 2006 10:52:01 GMT -5
More images of Kay's plants. The Truncata originally had only 1" pitchers, in a four inch pot. Now, 14 months later, it's in a 10" pot, and the pitchers are 8 to 10 inches. She feeds them Koi pellets once a week. The other image is a shot of her darlingtonia. .
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Post by Flytrap on Feb 28, 2007 1:57:20 GMT -5
2007 update: I just had a chat with my friend Kay the other night. Unfortunately, the wind storms here on the coast knocked out her power for over a week, and she was heart broken to say that she lost all of her lowland neps, including the large Truncata shown above. Only three of the five hamata plants survived.
All her sarracenia and darlingtonia plants made it through. The cephalotus is struggling to make a come back.
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Post by vraev on Feb 28, 2007 3:25:02 GMT -5
Hope the plants make a comeback buddy! It is seriously an insane collection. Keep it up! I can only dream of having collections like this when I get older, have my own home and my own rules to let CP's sprawl everywhere.....terrariums, displays inside the house and bogs and waterfalls with CP's outside and my own santuary with the grand nep rajah and habitat displays in a seperate outhouse....hmmm... ...can only dream for now.
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Post by lloyd on Feb 28, 2007 11:20:45 GMT -5
CP's in an outhouse, sounds like a fascinating experience.
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Post by vraev on Feb 28, 2007 17:25:46 GMT -5
you have no idea of the dream I have......hmmm..... ...makes me get a tear just thinking about it......But it technically would require a lot of money....lot of automation and lot of planning. But hey! There's always hope and life to try.
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Post by insectivore on Feb 28, 2007 20:32:13 GMT -5
It's fun to dream but when it comes back to reality it sucks that you can't have it... But CPs all ovewr the house... that I will have! Cya
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Post by Rick Hillier on Feb 28, 2007 20:54:14 GMT -5
I've seen pics of N. rajah that looked like a toilet bowl with the lid up, so maybe this fantasy isn't too far off base >>> Rick <<<
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