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Post by Avery on Jul 9, 2015 21:35:27 GMT -5
Thanks John! Yeah, I don't let any of my terrarium plants sit in water. All of my potted plants sit on top of growing moss/sand/bark/perlite, etc. that sit on top of screen (so that only water/minerals pass through) and plastic grating (for structural support) that are stood on top of a water reservoir (the bottom 5 inches of my terrarium). Every 10 days or so I have to syphon out the water below.
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Post by snapperhead51 on Jul 10, 2015 1:43:18 GMT -5
and works well to
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Post by Avery on Jul 17, 2015 13:21:41 GMT -5
I thought I would post a little "experiment". I read that Nepenthes inermis and Nepenthes dubia were very difficult to propagate via stem cuttings, and I found such little information on it that I thought it couldn't hurt to give it a go. I decided to try it on a young Nepenthes dubia, because it was growing so well (logical? haha), and I figured that instead of waiting until the stem was all brown and "woody" I would try it on some nice green living tissue. Basically I cut off the growth point, and made another 1 node/leaf cutting, and stuck them right back in the same pot that the parent plant was growing in. I have no idea if they'll take or not, but I'm not going to touch them until they either push out a leaf from the node or they turn to mush... Wish me luck!  |
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Post by roraima on Jul 17, 2015 13:54:05 GMT -5
Looking spectacular Avery!
I've definitely had way better luck with "green" Nepenthes stem cuttings. The woody stems almost never take for me as I believe they've lost most of their viable meristematic tissue.
BTW is that your N. "Kinabaluensis" at the bottom right or is it a straight villosa?
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Post by Avery on Jul 17, 2015 14:22:19 GMT -5
Thanks, Guy! That's encouraging to hear. I can't imagine why they wouldn't root, but you just never know... N. dubia grows so long and spindly that I figured I would try to get a more "bushy" looking plant if possible. Plus it's always nice to have extra plant material if needed. That plant in the corner is still undetermined! I have no idea if any of those JH plants turned out to be a true villosa. If not it's just a boring old hybrid... :/ ...Jk... But I do hope it's the real deal. It's growing pretty quickly for me, so maybe it's showing that hybrid vigour, or else (less likely) I'm just doing something right  |
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Post by roraima on Jul 17, 2015 14:38:02 GMT -5
I really wish you the best of luck with the cuttings, if would be great to be able to produce divisions of some of these desirable HL plants this way. Please keep us posted of your results. Haha...yes we might have just a boring old hybrid. I'm pretty sure that my JH villosa from Mt. Trusmadi is in fact N. "Kinabaluensis", as it definitely has a different morphology than my JH N. villosa from Mt Kinabalu. That said my N. "Kinabaluensis"(?) is by far the slowest growing Nepenthes in my entire collection... absolutely no sign of hybrid vigor in my plant so who knows??? I should be able to tell you definitely in another 20 years or so  |
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Post by vraev on Jul 17, 2015 16:02:16 GMT -5
Beautiful plants Avery. wow!! man! Personally I think that looks like a villosa. But thats just my opinion..the leaf shape looks very villosa like at that size. Are those in the top left more villosa as well? sg? or wistuba?
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Post by Avery on Jul 17, 2015 17:15:03 GMT -5
Thanks, Varun! Yes, those are a bunch of little AW villosa's. They seem fresh out of TC so I'm hoping to harden them up without killing them :/ There are extras so that's always helpful. They're sitting right beside the radiator so conditions should be pretty ideal as far as temperatures go. I think that if you can get them through the initial hardening up period they shouldn't be much more difficult than other villosa clones, but that's just a theory. AW's villosa clones seem to have a pretty bad rep but I know Brad has been successful with them! I think it's mainly temperatures that are the issue, everyone wants to push it with these plants but when they're young and acclimatizing to new conditions/rooting they just can't handle the heat stress- even during the day mine don't really get too far above 20C.
Not trying to sound pretentious here. I'm no expert, if anyone recalls I killed the last AW villosa I had... :/ Here's to hoping I don't do the same this time around--- that being said, my terrarium got a lot hotter last summer, and I've made quite a few positive changes to my setup.
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Post by vraev on Jul 17, 2015 17:23:47 GMT -5
Its nice that Andreas sends extras like that. I am sure your conditions are now perfect for highlanders. I am still contemplating building a radiator setup with a chiller sometime. Although my current tank is very very limited...already full. So, I am thinking perhaps I should get a bigger tank maybe? But life comes first and I am still unsure of where I will end up in an year or two. I don't know if I can even keep my plants then... so lets see. Hopefully i can.. some of these are too close to my heart.
Don't ever feel bad about the losses. I have lost all my 3 BE villosa and I killed like 10 villosa seedlings (inadvertently) with my tank freeze. I still can't believe I lost so many seed grown villosa...and those that were actually growing tough as nails. man! if only they were still alive...they would be like 3" size and would be a fantastic addition to the canadian CP gene pool.
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Post by Avery on Jul 27, 2015 18:31:29 GMT -5
Hello everyone, I thought I'd share some pictures. It's been a long time since we've had a nice steady rain here, but it finally came, so I thought I'd pull all of my plants out of my terrarium to set them on the back deck to leach the soil. I flushed all the pots with the fresh, oxygenated water, and on their way back into the terrarium I took some pictures. To start off, the chopped Nepenthes dubia looks like its shooting out a couple of basals, which is great. The cuttings also look like they're doing something, but it's still early.  A few new Heliamphora! Heliamphora minor var. pilosa:  Heliamphora pulchella (Chimanta tepui):  Heliamphora minor "Burgundy-Black":  Nepenthes aristolochioides:  Nepenthes aristolochioides "New Location" settling in:  Nepenthes inermis:  Nepenthes jacquelineae with 3 growth points- it might grow slow but should eventually look nice:  Various Pinguicula on lava rock. They were not liking my misting system at all, but I've since moved them to a drier part of the terrarium- also, does anyone know if P. cyclosecta absolutely hates being wet, or..??  Cephalotus follicularis:  Nepenthes edwardsiana- I'm blasting the poor little plant with light, but I'm sure with the next few leaves it'll harden up:  Nepenthes tenuis:  Nepenthes ventricosa:  Nepenthes hamata:    AW "Clone 2":  A tiny Nepenthes hamata "Red Hairy" seedling:  Nepenthes villosa (Tambuyukon) seedling- I'm hoping it's not a hybrid:   |
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Post by vraev on Jul 27, 2015 18:42:59 GMT -5
holy crap! Those are fantastic plants man. Thats one amazing collection of species u have there. Btw...by the look of those teeth, that villosa is definitely a villosa...not a hybrid. Those teeth are too distinct to be a hybrid.
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Post by Avery on Jul 27, 2015 19:08:15 GMT -5
Thanks V! A couple more. A few Nepenthes villosa settling in:  Nepenthes jamban:  |
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Post by morphman on Jul 27, 2015 19:18:08 GMT -5
My goodness man !! What are you trying to do to us !! That is one bad ass collection and your pictures are sweet too !!
Cheers
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Post by snapperhead51 on Jul 27, 2015 19:22:56 GMT -5
awesome plants indeed, nice work there, ,are all under lights or any in natural sun , ?
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Post by Maiden on Jul 27, 2015 19:25:04 GMT -5
Great selection of rare plants man !
WoW
Your n.tenuis is amazing.
Im looking foward for more pictures :-)
Keep going the good work mate.
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