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Hi all, My seed grown Cephalotus are now in their second winter and are colouring up nicely in their temporary terrarium. The plants in the terrarium, Plant 1 in natural light, and plant 2 in natural light, The colours in the picture of plant 2 look a bit washed out, may have been the angle I took it at, it is actually darker than plant 1 in reality. Hope you like them. Best regards, Ian.

Nice fall colors.

This is my baby ceph, I recently noticed this new trap appearing a little way off from the main plant, what is it? a new plant developing on the same root system? in any case I's also like to ask if it looks like it might be time to pop it in a bigger pot? it's stating to look mighty crowded at the edge of that little 5cm pot. if it does need re-potting, what medium would be best? obviously to minimise root disturbance it'll be a case of just slitting open the pot carefully and placing the whole soil& plant clump into it's new home together. Thanks for any answers in advance!

Hi everyone, One of my 18 month old Ceph seedlings opened it's first adult pitcher about a week ago, but over the last few days it started to develop a green ring around the top, just below the 'teeth' and this has now become a wide band. It reminds me of the pitchers on my Nepenthes when they start to die off, but this one is a new pitcher, so I really don't know what to make of it. Here are a couple of pics I've just taken. It was turning a nice deep red and then this happened, has anyone got any ideas? Best regards, Ian.

Hi all, I thought I'd post a couple of pictures of the Cephalotus plants which I started from seed last December. Both plants are growing well, if slowly, with no problems with fungus etc,. They are about 20mm diameter and have just started to sprout the 2 new shoots as you can see in the photos. I'm really happy with them.

Hey guys!! This week i repoted one of my cephalotus, and everything was going fine for the first days, but now all the pitchers appear to be closing... I've read somewhere sometime ago that one of the reasons they close are lack of humidity... Since that doesn't appear to be the case, is it some sort of transplant shock? Thank you in advance!!

I've had this cephalotus since early Summer and now there are many more pitchers and many of them are becoming cramped. I wondered if the plant needs repotted and if so, how I should go by doing this. A picture of the plant can be seen by clicking this link: http://tinypic.com/r/313ppud/6 Thanks

Having read that Cephalotus could be rather tricky to grow it was with some trepidation that I picked my birthday present last year. So now just over a year later I thought I'd post some pictures to, hopefully, encourage other newbies who maybe have similar self-doubts to my own. All these pictures were taken earlier this month. The whole plant... A whole row of new pitchers grown during this summer Closeup of those pitchers Double inflorescence Closeup of the flower head Some leaf pullings I took in March when repotting the main plants, now small plantlets Closer view of the plantlets, you can see the original leaf pullings and one pitcher pulling top left (11 o'clock-ish) The fastest growing plantlet potted on Strangely one plantlet grew a huge pitcher Edit: oops! Silly me, the pitcher was one of the carnivorous leaf pullings which carried on growing and filled with digestive juices Closeup of a couple of the tiny pitchers Well that's it, I hope it will encourage others to try things for themselves even (or especially) if we read that it might be a challenge. Thanks for looking. Cheers Gaz