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I use it in a mixture with other things. I've recently tried using it to grow seedlings, as it can be soaked in boiling water to sterilise it, and I've found it works very well. Keeps the rate of fungal infection down significantly.

I looks like the Penang spotted form

Mine are a light purple.

I've got some tips on my website. Obviously there are big differences in highland and lowland seed, and I specialise in highland species. Seedlings will grow in very low light levels for many months, and need to be slowly accustomed to higher light levels.

Tentaculata are not hard to grow, it's just that they need high humidity to pitcher well. There are lowland forms, intermediate forms and highland forms. I've grown several highland forms from seed and have found them easy and fast growers. However, it is the only species I've seen killed by...

Germinating them is really easy, getting them to survive their 1st year is the hard part...

Generic conditions for tentaculata are hard to give. It is widespread, found at lowland altitudes to ultra-highland altitudes, so will need the relevant conditions from where it was collected. It is generally not a difficult species, although I've found most forms not to like low humidity, and...

Possible. There aren't that many flowering Trusmadiensis around, there are a couple here in Australia, a couple in Germany. I don't know if Jeff Shafer's is at that size yet.

I think it's a Phill Mann hybrid

Isn't that actually veitchii x Trusmadiensis. I'm pretty sure all the flowering trusmadiensis have been male in cultivation.

Marcello, it's a pity that most of the stuff went to Wistuba, it means those of us in Australia and New Zealand won't see it for at least 10 years...

I think it is spectacular. For a start, the colour. It is a deep red, which is not too common amongst Nepenthes. Secondly the peristome is nice and flared. Thirdly it is quite hirsute. Fourtly, the pitchers get to a decent size. As to why it's expensive. Many Neps are expensive, and I could go...

I've found it intolerant of constant warm temperatures, especially at night. It grows best as a highlander.

Not copelandii, that species has petiolate leaves for a start.

As srduggins noted, Peninsular Malaysian species (in particular ramispina, macfarlanei and sanguinea) hybridise extremely readily in the wild. Accordingly, plants grown from seed collected in the wild will show a high degree of hybrid parentage. In some cases, BE has found up to 70% of some will...