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Tissue culture. You can buy plants propagated in vitro for much cheaper. On down side, plants will be small and they need to be acclimatized carefully (research, research, research). May not be best to start with, but a good option for expanding collection once you have some experience. Yes...

Good point on the lowii. Also it is expensive. I am growing them, but right now I can't call them robustly acclimatized (can't call them that without a full year, including blazing summer survived well). They do pitcher (stingily for now). Burbidgeae definitely pitchers. But then I have also...

"Cyclic timer" is your friend.

Anything under 18-20C gets lowlanders moody. The BRIEF excuse for winter I get sees my bicals pause for a bit. And the worst possible here is around 16C excluding some extreme event. More usually 18-20C. Maxima family sounds like a good start. They make attractive pitchers and grow in pretty...

I think a bigger problem is that your winter nights won't make lowlanders happy and rest of the year won't make intermediate/highlanders happy. My gut feel is that it is going to be harder to get lowlanders to survive very cold winters than it will be to get intermediates/highlanders to survive...

Sometimes neps don't pitcher. Can be a season thing, or it wants more light (different plants have different needs), or it is putting its energy elsewhere or something else. I often have plants that will stop pitchering for a while, then resume. Other plants don't pitcher well on vines (think...

Some thoughts: - Grow outdoors or in a breezy balcony. The plants you want will outgrow terrariums fast - you'll end up air conditioning a room or a good part of it and then heating it a lot with lights and then paying electricity bills. - For a fraction of that cost, you could set up a...

Update. After newer pitchers, I've started suspecting this is either a burbidgeae x robcantleyi or veitchi x something else (someone suggested platychila), but not rajah x veitchii.

Why is it that stuff the heart really wants is the stuff that's hardest. lol Update on my macrophylla: -________ Yep. Nothing. The tiny leaf and nub status remains. If I stare really hard, maybe the nub is bigger. Two other seedlings have nothing or maybe hints of nubs between the cotyledons...

Also, I suspect the fraud happens in more rare species. So far, the seed grown nepenthes I have where I can make out enough that the seed was labeled right is a rafflesiana. Not a lot of incentive to sell bogus seeds for that. I may change my tune if my "seed grown macrophylla" that so far seems...

All I mean to say is that as long as I am getting seeds that look about right for the species and they are germinating, at least for now, it is good enough for me. I also admitted that once I have more plants, I may not appreciate getting common seeds for something exotic I buy. "Authentic"...

Turned out it wasn't the geckos doing damage, but probably a snail. I saw a tiny one on a night raid after the covered seedlings also seemed to decrease in numbers. Immediate measures taken - I found some snail bait online, spread it as soon as it arrived. Magically, the seedling damage has...

TBH for me, an "aristolochioides" seed growing like that would still be a win. It growing at all to the point of making nice pitchers would be a win. I think there is a far more thriving community in the US and Europe for CPs in general. Reliable seed are not very difficult to find. Hobbyists...

For plants that come potted, I don't repot them till they start growing again in my conditions. Logic being "If they got to a selling stage in whatever they are growing in, it is fine, even if it isn't my first choice." For plants that come bare rooted, obviously I pot them up. Lots of perlite...

oh god.... one munch from a caterpillar or snail and there will be nothing left to show for months of growth. lol. Ironically, they germinated in record time. 12 days and 14 days. I was so excited. And then a whole lot of nothing. I sowed the remaining seeds last month and those too started...

I had two N. macrophylla germinate about 2 months ago (more are germinating now, but barely exiting seedcoats yet - not even daring to think of when their next steps will be). For a long time they sat there doing nothing. Then for a long time they sat there with a tiny "nub" hinting at first...

Thrips are bad news. I find that some nepenthes succumb to them worse than others. I don't grow hamata, so I don't know if it is among the susceptible, but your photo looks like they might be. I keep plants that tend to attract pests where I can easily keep an eye on them and use neem or...

I find plants growing in bright light to have smaller leaves and bigger pitchers than those grown in low light. I use this to get some green mass on seedlings fast before moving them to brighter light at an age when their pitchers should be more interesting. That said, I haven't been growing...

I am not posting a lot of photos yet, because the plants are small - there aren't any showy pics as such. They are doing well, putting out new leaves, acclimatizing to conditions they weren't made for... I suspect it will be a while before the showy pics happen. Also, I'm not planning to call...

Please anyone trying to grow highlanders in lowland conditions, don't take this thread as your sole guide. You'll KILL TC plants for certain planting them out unless your weather is like mine currently is. This is like living INSIDE an evaporative cooler - not even like gettting its breeze...