A few new pictures.

[JB_OrchidGuy]

N. 'sabre'

<a href="http://www.ringo.com/photos/photo.html?photoId=251925815"><img src="http://photo.ringo.com/250/250453104RL843512239.jpg" border="0"/></a>

<a href="http://www.ringo.com/photos/photo.html?photoId=251925825"><img src="http://photo.ringo.com/250/250453129RL475323540.jpg" border="0"/></a>

N. 'Jungle Bells'

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<a href="http://www.ringo.com/photos/photo.html?photoId=251926720"><img src="http://photo.ringo.com/250/250454013RL981323388.jpg" border="0"/></a>

N. albomarginata

<a href="http://www.ringo.com/photos/photo.html?photoId=251926073"><img src="http://photo.ringo.com/250/250453380RL827053770.jpg" border="0"/></a>

<a href="http://www.ringo.com/photos/photo.html?photoId=251926546"><img src="http://photo.ringo.com/250/250453843RL490532877.jpg" border="0"/></a>

<a href="http://www.ringo.com/photos/photo.html?photoId=251926568"><img src="http://photo.ringo.com/250/250453885RL165792751.jpg" border="0"/></a>

N. ventracosa 'Hotlips'

<a href="http://www.ringo.com/photos/photo.html?photoId=251926094"><img src="http://photo.ringo.com/250/250453397RL297108607.jpg" border="0"/></a>

N. truncata

<a href="http://www.ringo.com/photos/photo.html?photoId=251926149"><img src="http://photo.ringo.com/250/250453451RL859758216.jpg" border="0"/></a>

<a href="http://www.ringo.com/photos/photo.html?photoId=251926165"><img src="http://photo.ringo.com/250/250453455RL220107045.jpg" border="0"/></a>

N. splendiana

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N. ventricosa x truncata or truncata x ventricosa I can't remember right off hand.

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[Jayson16]

Great plants JB.

 

[phissionkorps]

The first pic is Sabre.
Nice job getting that Jungle Bells to pitcher.
What form is that albo?
Sure thats a wrigleyana? Wrigleyana lowers look almost exactly like coccinea to me, and that pic doesn't. Its uppers look like this:

 

[Clint]

It's huge!

 

[Jefforever]

I like your N. albomarginata! I wish I had one that size.

 

[Nepenthes]

Nice plants! PK is right, that is a Sabre. Thx for sharing .

 

[duckking]

Excellent! beautiful nepenthes.
I prefer that N. 'Jungle Bells'.
Is it N.sibuyanensis or hybrid?
Thanks about those great photos.

 

[Clint]

It's N. ventricosa x sibuyanensis or the reciprocal. Can't remember. Probably the former.

 

[maxposwillo]

Great Neps! Nice 'Jungle Bells' too.

 

[JB_OrchidGuy]

That is 'sabre'. I have both and couldn't remember the one I took a picture of. Also the one that I labeled as wrigleyana is actually splendiana. But phission my wrigleyana, both of them, have more red in it and the bottom of the pitcher is not as tapered as yours. The albo is 'Kutching spotted'

Clint that truncata pitcher is smaller then the couple previous ones from last winter. It seems to take off during the winter months putting off one to two pitchers larger and fatter and during the summer it will put off one pitcher a little smaller, not much, than the others.

The 'jungle bells' is supposed to be a highlander. The vender I ordered my black and red dragons from only ordered a few jungle bells to see how they did in the heat. I couldn't wait that long and ordered one from another vender. I think it is doing pretty good.

Thanks for the comments. I will take some better pictures with better lighting once we get some sunshine again. It has been rainy here and Clint asked for pictures. It wa about 5 so the sun was setting. The flash was washing them out so that was the natural light I had. Like an idiot I forgot about the lights I have in the GH till it got dark!!!

 

[JB_OrchidGuy]

The second pitcher to 'jungle bells' did not color up as nicely as the first. I hope it colors in.

 

[phissionkorps]

I'd be happy with any pitcher from jungle bells. I hear they're a pain, but I've never had one myself.

 

[Clint]

Produced small pitchers while it was settling it, then a big whopper for it's size, then a small one (which happened to not be resting on anything, which could be why it's was so much smaller).

As usual, looks nothing like the pics from the wholesalers website (not to me, at least) lol. They look like sausages!

 

[Its_a_friday]

Produced small pitchers while it was settling it, then a big whopper for it's size, then a small one (which happened to not be resting on anything, which could be why it's was so much smaller).

if ground pitchers don't touch the ground or a surface, they won't grow as large?

 

[Clint]

That was just my experience with that one pitcher (I gave the plant away because it looked like little more than an obese N. ventricosa to me), and others have had similar experience with the mother (father?) in this cross. I don't even know if that's what happened and if it is then it's not absolute.

Not much is absolute in this hobby

 

[creepa200]

Not much is absolute in this hobby

Time spent caring for them?

I don't even have any yet and just the preparation for them is hectic.

 

[nightsky]

That was just my experience with that one pitcher (I gave the plant away because it looked like little more than an obese N. ventricosa to me), and others have had similar experience with the mother (father?) in this cross. I don't even know if that's what happened and if it is then it's not absolute.

Not much is absolute in this hobby

I noticed my ventricosa doing this also . If the pitcher is resting upon the media while forming, it's larger than if I just let it dangle during formation, by about 30% or so. Hm...

 

[duckking]

It's N. ventricosa x sibuyanensis or the reciprocal. Can't remember. Probably the former.

Thanks, my friend.

 

[JB_OrchidGuy]

Clint this plant has always been hanging since I got it from you. The winter set of pitcher were still larger than the summer set. Has always been that way for me. Has always put out more when it was cooler too. I have seen what your saying though with the resting pitcher being larger than hanging ones, but that is not the case with the truncata.

thanks for the compliment Phission. I treat it just like any other nepenthes I have. I treat them all the same. the highlanders and lowlanders. I guess it likes what I am doing because i have not had a problem with it. I am having a problem with a couple others not pitchering. One being ventricosa, yet my ventricosa 'hotlips' is doing fine. Then I have another that didn't like the hot summer either, but its recovering along sine my rami that is recovering from the summer too.

 

[Clint]

When did I give N. "jungle bells'? I can't remember ever having more than one. Are you suuuure it was from me?

In case there's confusing I was just talking about the jungle bells and the jungle bells alone lol.