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Thanks a lot @PofW_Feathers for your input, appreciate it a lot.

Hi @PofW_Feathers, I guess you're located in Japan and me being one of those planning a trip there for the ICPS, wanted to ask you about the situation with the corona virus. I've heard of many people cancelling their trips to Japan but I wanted to hear from someone living there before making any decision. Thanks a lot

It does look more like a pest than a fungus attack

That was exactly my thought @David Ahrens. Been able to acquire some plants is part of the whole experience at the ICPS conferences but it will suck if they get confiscated at the airport. I wish an official statement from the organizers would be post on the website or Facebook before making my summer plans.

Great info @Mujinamo! One question about the sales: How will it work for us coming from EU buying plants during the conference? (permits etc etc)

This is not that important, sorry. Basic care for commercial sundews and other CPs is easily found here with the search option or Google.

That nectar spoon....

The seller has been growing nepenthes way over 10 years now and as Osmosis says with time, good disposition and approach you can build a very good network in the hobby. The "rare" plants in private collections are seldom offered openly on Facebook, forums etc. They use to go between experienced growers and privatly.

Good to know it's progressing after the light increase

AW will also release it next year, but it's better with several sources. Looking forward this beauty

Thanks for sharing! and please post more

Very "shady" ad with no background info and a bad quality pic. I have never heard of "rubrum" as a variation or cultivar or type of alata... stay away from it.

I'm indeed following this post. I run most of my GH with a 260w solar system with 3 185ah batteries, a mppt controller for efficency and a 1kw inverter. After testing different loadouts I decided to run everything (lamps, ventilation, hydrofogger) but the heating with solar 'cos it is the most taxing of all the appliances.

Not often you see pictures of a Bloody Mary upper, interesting

Yes, I meant ROOTED, typos are my speciality nowadays. Ventrata is a VERY forgiving nep so they might be fine with a short acclimatization to lower RH.