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I'll be in Manchester and London for a month, can anyone recommend me a shop in UK ? I am especially interested in small species. Any good store is fine, I'd like to buy online as well.
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Some pictures with stacking technique
maxxima replied to Ruben Resendiz's topic in Carnivorous Plants in Cultivation
WOW! -
Omg I thought I hated gnomes but that thing is sooo cute!
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Wow! That's such a beautiful view you have there, you are very lucky. Gorgeous plants as well.
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From the album: My house/balconies
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- drosophyllum
- succulents
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One of my other hobbies: STORMCHASING!
maxxima replied to The body snatcher pod's topic in Talk About Anything
Wow this is some serious body of work and they are incredible. You should really think about having them published. -
Hehe guys. I've read success stories on a few other sources as well, I'm going to include them here once I find them again. I think the problem is that not many people seem to grow this plant and even fewer of those people actually dare experimenting with their plants. For instance people still say you can not transplant and I myself have transplanted about 6 times (twice or so for each pot, I have 4). As long as you move the whole rootball, the plants don't skip a beat. Anyway, looks like we have a lot to learn still.
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Richard I think it's possible. Check this out: http://www.carnivorousplants.org/cpn/articles/CPNv17n4p106_107.pdf Check this out also, it's where I found the above link: http://www.terraforums.com/forums/showthread.php?132717-Dew-leaf-cutting-success I will also post that woody stem cuttings article if I can find it again.
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My open terrarium - nepenthes are not pitchering
maxxima replied to Operr's topic in Terraria - Cultivation & Equipment
You have a monstera, too? Awesome, I have one as well. It's growing great for me, too fast actually, I had to cut it this year or it would reach the ceiling. My flat is dry too but you must be right about different factors because monstera and ficus normally are very hardy as you know. By the way I am using drinking water for my neps, mineral content is 56 mikrosiemens. Tap water is too hard here. I can recommend some low humidity plants. These plants keep growing and pitchering all year - veitchii (lowland from wistuba), maxima x TM, truncata x ventricosa, truncata x veitchii and albomarginata. All my other plants even maxima and miranda stop pitchering in winter but these ones continue. I was never successful with truncata (pasian), it is very slow in low humidity. I also have to tell you some of my plants took a very long time to adapt. Truncata x Veitchii took about 6-8 months ! But it never stops now. Anyway I hope things improve for you. Your plants really look very healthy and beautiful. -
A new peat free growing medium...
maxxima replied to guillaume's topic in Sustainable and Peat-free Cultivation
Thank you so much for sharing this. I am always interested in alternate mediums as well and this is very encouraging. -
My open terrarium - nepenthes are not pitchering
maxxima replied to Operr's topic in Terraria - Cultivation & Equipment
I have the same setup, southeastern window but I don't even have an open terrarium. All my plants are windowsill grown. You don't need humidity, but it always helps. You don't have to cover them with glass, they are just adapting, they will pitcher. Remember it may take a few months though depending on how hardy they are. edit: Humidity is overrated sometimes. Some of my plants like Albomarginata and Veitchii pitcher on top of the central heating (%10-20 humidity) -
From the album: My house/balconies
first flowers weeeeeeeeee The plant is 16 months old. -
Amazing, I hadn't seen photos of seedlings in nature before. You almost feel sorry for them seeing how dry it is. But then again Jan & Kamil's report said the ground would be all wet in the morning fog.
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Ah very cool stuff. I like the one on bottom left corner, looks kinda like a sea urchin. Top right corner looks interesting as well, wish we had markets like that over here. Happy growing!
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Nepenthes in movie Prometheus
maxxima replied to Fernando Rivadavia's topic in General Carnivorous Plant Discussion
LOL that's hilarious. Honestly there's sooo much to be said...The only cool thing I parted with from the movie was that struggle between the octopus thingy and the engineer - that was very well done. Special FX today are just amazing. Ridley Scott though...So hard to believe he once did Blade Runner. He's probably just senile (and too rich to care) -
I agree with Gaz. I am also using a "Cactus Mix" product from the garden centre but you should mix some perlite or some other inorganic material while using these products. My mix is %50 cactus mix and %50 perlite. You can probably use less perlite but this ratio has worked well for me so far.
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Nepenthes in movie Prometheus
maxxima replied to Fernando Rivadavia's topic in General Carnivorous Plant Discussion
LOL at the cynical responses here. Well said! What a disappointment that movie was. My biggest gripe is the "scientist team" who were ALL acting like complete morons and none of them even wanted to be there. Here you find an alien civilization, what's left of it anyway, and they all just want to go home totally uninterested...I don't even want to talk about the biologist who makes baby talk and tries to pet an alien snake-like creature that rears its head in aggression... Anyway, I did spot the nepenthes right away as well. It was a Ventrata from what I remember (and placed poorly as it was too obvious it didn't grow there) -
Drumroll Please.....
maxxima replied to SoLongFairWell's topic in Greenhouses - Cultivation & Equipment
Haha that method you used on the handymen is so cute and smart. I hope this is the beginning of your dream and that it comes true for you. You must be sooo excited :) Congrats! -
I've read reports of someone propagating by the woody stems, I think it's possible. Not sure about air layering though.
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By the way can we see more pictures of your grow space ? Looks like you have beautiful plants there :)
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I have both Portugal and Spain locations but I really believe the pot size is the issue here. In the first photo you have 5 plants together - Are those in the same pot ? I can't tell. In the second photo you have 2 plants together. When you have a single plant in a big pot, there is a dramatic change in growth rate and size. From your first photo I can tell that they need more space. As they reach the limit of their root space, their "heads" start getting smaller instead of expanding. Here are my plants. They are all the same age but mixed locations. As you can see the biggest one had the biggest root space right from the beginning. I have no doubt that others would have grown just as big if they didn't have smaller pots. By the way this is an old picture, they have all been transplanted into bigger pots now.
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I think it may help. But how about the plants growing by pine trees ? Those two web sites are showing rocky locations only. There are other locations covered with pine needles (pine leaves ?) and plants there seem to do just as fine. I am thinking their primary source is the moisture deep below. They must be getting something from there, otherwise why bother making roots so long right from the beginning ? And then it's probably supported by the moisture in the air. Last summer I watered a couple of mine by only spraying the leaves very early in the morning and they did fine for a long time although of course to say something solid would require an actual scientific approach.