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  1. Ouch..! Maybe there's not so much crisis here!!!
  2. Hello Beppe, I think you have intermediate conditions, and probably neither true lowlanders nor true highlanders will thrive, but I think they all can survive quite well, if individuals are healthy and not too much stressed. 18/20° are sufficient as minimum temperatures for many lowland nepenthes... probably not as cold as needed for some highland (if you grow some extreme ones you will definitely have some problems), but you can try. Probably some plants will manage to adapt themselves to these conditions, and grow well. Among the species you've mentioned, I think albomarginata, gracilis and maybe rafflesiana could do well; I find that my albomarginata from BE is thriving in every condition, from pure lowland to extreme highland...(now it's into my greenhouse, with temperatures near to 0°.. but it won't stay there any longer )! Where does your clone come from?
  3. I know that the second offer (of the last two) was from Italy, but could you tell us where the winning bid came from????
  4. Last winter I received an unidentified utricularia from an european grower. Someone could help me in identifying it? It has just flowered. Sorry for the two pics of the flower, I didn't realize they were out of focus... It's a very little flower, 4-5mm Thank you Marco
  5. Thank you very much for these fantastic photos!
  6. faunista

    Ceph Tank Set Up

    What a beautiful setup! I agree... this is far better than TV!
  7. Me too, but not dramatically, on humboldtii and nelumbifolia. I also think that plant in photo is not a pure humboldtii.
  8. If you are searching for efficient fluorescent lights, there are some interesting HE tubes (high efficiency). For example some T5 by Philips produce 1750/1900 lumens with 21 watt of consumption (tube lenght 84,5 cm so fits well in a 90 cm/1 m terrarium): so, up to 90,5 lumen/watt and I think this is quite efficient.
  9. Great collection, very funny dionaea! And I especiallly love your purpurea deep into sphagnum moss!
  10. That's a really stunning purpurea! I hope there will be some seeds for everybody!!
  11. Nepenthes hamata Nepenthes villosa Nepenthes lowii - Nepenthes "Miranda" Nepenthes rafflesiana - Nepenthes bicalcarata Nepenthes x hookeriana - Nepenthes tobaica (uhm, bad pic!) Nepenthes albomarginata Nepenthes ampullaria red - Nepenthes kampotiana Nepenthes madagascariensis - sometimes they are eaten!
  12. Summer has ended. Now my nepenthes can grow faster, thanks to the perfect growing conditions outside! It seems that my highland feel at home here, surrounded by Alps. Then, in dicember, I'll put them under indoor lights. Kinabalu? No... it's "my own Trusmadi" Nepenthes ovata (finally it started to grow - Nepenthes hamata Nepenthes copelandii (not fine like in 2008) - Nepenthes ventricosa Nepenthes sanguinea: 25 pitchers (not still opened excluded!) in 30 cm of heigth Nepenthes gracilis - Nepenthes ramispina Nepenthes tentaculata, one of my favorite - Nepenthes diatas Nepenthes villosa (very little) - N. hamata internodes... a bit larger! Yeah!
  13. I prefer keep nepenthes not much wet, too. But in this case I think the plant is suffering for daytime temperatures with insufficient temperature drop at night. What are your growing conditions for what concerns temperature? Marco
  14. I'm trying many different mixes for every plant... This one is in long-fiber dried sphagnum, perlite, bark, peat, lava rock I think... I wasn't satisfied because the mix was difficult to get moist (I water this plant very little). So yesterday I put the plant in another mix, mostly peat/perlite, and see what happens. I'm sure it will be fine.
  15. I decided today to change the substrate for my bigger N. Madagascariensis. It's 50 cm tall. I've seen that the plant has many roots pressed on the bottom of the pot; it'a quite big pot (20x20x25), but it seems the plants needs a bigger one. It seems that roots were trying to go much deeper. Do someone have experience about madagascariensis needs in terms of space for roots development?
  16. Ouch... now it's evident I'm not an expert of utricularia...! So it's not U. triloba as my friend said (he gave me as "trilobata"). I thought about U. tricolor because I already have it in cultivation and I find it very similar to this one in the photo.
  17. A few months ago I obtained this utricularia from a friend of mine with an exchange. The plant was given to me as U. trilobata. I've never seen before U. trilobata, but I think this utricularia is U. tricolor. Is it right? It has flowered some days ago.
  18. I'm always impressed by seeing N. villosa so well cultivated. What are your growing conditions for this plant, especially temperatures and light? Relly impressive hamata!!
  19. I can't believe.. congratulations!! My villosa is 1 cm...
  20. Thank you, I'm very happy you like this photos and plants! Highland nepenthes are in indoor greenhouses/terrariums in unheated room during the winter (11-25° but temperatures are much variable), and outside or into the greenhouse from april until temperatures don't go below -4/-5°C, partially shaded to full sun. Well, you have a real "clinic eye"!!?? Yes, during the winter I increased light levels very much and old leaves were burnt... (and more powerful T5 lamps also made humidity decrease). I think hamata is still getting too light, because new leaves still seems to hurt a bit, but in a few I'll put it outside the terrarium. Light leves (not also needed but tolerated by nepenthes) is actually the most interesting argument for me in cultivation.
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