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Post by vraev on Jul 17, 2015 12:43:50 GMT -5
Hi Avery,
Thanks. The villosa is doing pretty well actually. Consistent steady growth. The helis...lol....I did see a "young adult" pitcher on it...very small...but it is still buried underneath my burbidgeae pitchers and the wall of moss at the back. I need to see if there are any survivors among them sometime when I clean the tank. from what I see...its hanging in there. Just hard sometimes as there is just not enough room. I will probably take it out and grow it in my tray setup.
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Post by Avery on Jul 17, 2015 13:05:21 GMT -5
Haha, wow. You have so much going on in your tank it's ridiculous! Pretty cool, though. What is your tray setup?
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Post by vraev on Jul 17, 2015 16:05:24 GMT -5
Here it is... I put two of those sun blaster tubes on a nano dome and I am growing some cephs/orchids/seeds and the D. scorpioides in there. I needed something for overflow...especially the cephs. Something more top dry rather than constantly being wetted from the top.
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Post by vraev on Jul 18, 2015 16:14:34 GMT -5
Here u go Avery. Terrible pics...but hard to grab a pic of them buried at the absolute back end of the tank.
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Post by Avery on Jul 18, 2015 21:56:28 GMT -5
Nice! Yours is actually starting to push up mature(ish) pitchers. I have three vigorous juvenile clumps happening, so it's only a matter of time...
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Post by vraev on Jul 18, 2015 22:27:53 GMT -5
ya! I have been thinking about doing it for over 6 months now....move that freaking pot into the front so that it gets more light. lol Hopefully then it will get bigger. Might have to try maiden's method of feeding it some DBW.
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Post by vraev on Jul 25, 2015 15:51:51 GMT -5
Finally the BCP clone ceph has made a decent sized pitcher.
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Post by vraev on Jul 26, 2015 14:45:07 GMT -5
U. jitka mostly open. (U. quelchii x praetermissa)
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Post by roraima on Jul 27, 2015 14:23:44 GMT -5
Beautiful tank Varun.
Love the waxy colouration on the inner lid of that BCP Ceph clone.
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Post by vraev on Jul 27, 2015 14:29:36 GMT -5
Thanks Roraima.
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Post by vraev on Sept 29, 2015 0:44:56 GMT -5
feeding time. Poor thang hadn't been fed for a long long time. Time for a growth spurt.
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Post by troutddicted on Sept 29, 2015 9:37:18 GMT -5
Sweet setup with some even sweeter plants - fantastic
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Post by vraev on Sept 29, 2015 10:46:46 GMT -5
Sweet setup with some even sweeter plants - fantastic Thank u Sir.
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Post by vraev on Oct 12, 2015 2:14:07 GMT -5
Killing plants: So... just to show that you are never too experienced to kill plants. I have killed two cephalotus. First one was the BCP ceph above . Truly sad about this one. it was a promising clone. Another one of these is the ones I have had since the beginning in 2006. The one I got from a kind member here... jay. I am sure it should be in as divisions somewhere in the collection. But this is the original plant. I finally understand ceph sudden death syndrome/rot. It starts from the bottom up. One of the first signs is .. the pitchers start to close their lids. It is a sign that the roots are dying and unable to supply water to the plant. One look at the roots and I knew it was almost dead. Healthy ceph roots are a nice white with a woody brown/red colour. The black/brittle brown is a bad sign. I started cutting up and up into the stem to see where i could find white live tissue. As you can see... I was already pretty late. Most of the roots were gone. Luckily...there may be pieces that can be salvaged. The one on the very left may not make it..it is already a brown colour. The ones in the middle and right are more hopeful. Well... lets see how it goes. Hopefully I can get it growing again. I cut big vents in the domes and removed one of the T5s, hopefully the heat going lower, air circulation increasing should help. This was the same plant back in the day. Will take a long while for it to get back to this ...if it does indeed recover.
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Post by roraima on Oct 12, 2015 12:41:07 GMT -5
Varun I'm so sorry!!!
I was a big fan of those plant especially the BCP clone.
What happened here exactly???
I've been growing Cephs for a few years now, and the only time I have ever seen anything like this is when a Cpeh rotted in shipping from Australia. But never from a healthy looking potted Ceph growing in already established conditions.
I have some extra divisions of a couple of clones I can send you if these plants don't make it.
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