D_muscipula's photo thread

[D_muscipula]

Nepenthes graciliflora

 

[D_muscipula]

Nepenthes sanguinea x ventricosa
Love the orange hues on this one.

 

[D_muscipula]

Nepenthes albomarginata HL red form from the old Leilani nepenthes nursery. These photos are easily a year apart. No pitchers on it currently but it is now vining.

 

[adnedarn]

I love albomarginata, I have a few different clones of it and grabbed another one at our monthly meeting last night lol Your "now" pic looks awfully dry, I keep these guys constantly wet in my collection.

 

[D_muscipula]

I love albomarginata, I have a few different clones of it and grabbed another one at our monthly meeting last night lol Your "now" pic looks awfully dry, I keep these guys constantly wet in my collection.

I just watered it after taking the picture. It was a little dry. In both of these photos though the plant is growing outside a terrarium just on a wire shelf. It's acclimated to lower humidity!

 

[adnedarn]

I have quite a few CPs in lower humidity, but warmer plants (lowland and intermediate) definitely do not like getting dry like highland and ultra highland can really like. Making sure that doesn't happen could help with pitcher production. I grabbed photos of thw albos I found in a quick scan, 2 are seed grown by me.

 

[D_muscipula]

This picture is from 2023. It currently doesn't have any pitchers on it. I've been nursing it back to health after I over watered it. But it's doing well and is making some basals! Last photo is the basals.

 

[Grey Moss]

That is a very nice rein. The perfect shade of red

 

[D_muscipula]

That is a very nice rein. The perfect shade of red

Thankyou. It's among my favorite species and I had been hunting for one like this for many years.

 

[D_muscipula]

This plant died in my care during a time when I was dealing with intense grief and depression. I miss it greatly. To this day this is probably the most beautiful plant I had ever grown.
I wanted to post some pictures just to memorialize it. These photos are from 11 or 12 years ago. I bought it as reinwardtiana green form. I am assuming that it was a clone from Borneo exotics but I'm not entirely sure. I grew this plant in highland conditions. I was living in a small little cottage that didn't have heat. I had a plug in radiant heater but the house was often cold enough during the winter that I could see my breath in the mornings. This reinwardtiana thrived for some reason and it wasn't in any sort of terrarium either. I had it growing under a light fixture on a folding card table.
RIP friend.

 

[D_muscipula]

Variegated Nepenthes gaya. Sadly the basals on this plant aren't variegated. Do you think I should remove the basals? I have heard that they can steal energy from the main vine but I'm not sure if that's a myth or factual.

 

[adnedarn]

I've seen plants do fine with many basals and other vines decline with the presence of basals. If the basal growth is not doing what you want it to do, I'd remove them. Then you can decide from there if you want to root them out or not. I think guya is a nice plant, variegated or not so I would pop them off and root them.

 

[D_muscipula]

I've seen plants do fine with many basals and other vines decline with the presence of basals. If the basal growth is not doing what you want it to do, I'd remove them. Then you can decide from there if you want to root them out or not. I think guya is a nice plant, variegated or not so I would pop them off and root them.

Thanks. Yeah it is a lovely hybrid and so if I separate it I will definitely try to root it. I've never propagated by basals before so it would be good practice. Most of my plants produce basals but don't end up vining for some reason.

 

[D_muscipula]

New to the collection, a rooted cutting of Nepenthes (sibuyanensis x ventricosa) x merrilliana
I picked up an air pot and potted it up so it has more room. Hope this grows well as an intermediate.

 

[D_muscipula]

Rooting some cuttings. The larger one is Nepenthes sanguinea (F) exotica plants
The smaller one is sanguinea purple.
The sanguinea purple was grown by me. The one from EP I just received in the mail
I dipped them in clonex rooting gel and potted them up in a 50/50 mix of LFS and pumice.

04/04/2025

 

[D_muscipula]

I'm ecstatic right now. I've been on a wait-list for 3 years to receive some cuttings of Nepenthes khasiana. They're seed grown plants different than the Borneo exotics release. I picked up two cuttings from two different plants. I also have one of the BE clones. Hopefully between three different genetic plants I'll have a breeding pair.
The plants arrived in the mail today. The other cutting doesn't have pitchers currently I'll take some pictures of the second one when it puts on some more growth.

 

[bluemax]

Congrats on getting several forms of the species. I'll keep my fingers crossed for you getting a male and a female. There certainly aren't a lot of this one around.

 

[D_muscipula]

Congrats on getting several forms of the species. I'll keep my fingers crossed for you getting a male and a female. There certainly aren't a lot of this one around.

I mentioned to John at the meetup that I was receiving some khasiana soon and he gave me lots of growing advice. He actually has a breeding pair. I'd love to grow some from seed and spread new genetics around the community.

 

[D_muscipula]

All three khasiana chilling in the greenhouse. Got an exhaust fan hooked to a thermostat set to keep the greenhouse at 80F. I was told khasiana can grow in trays of water like sarracenia and so I'm giving that a try. I saw pictures and the plants were amazing and large sized specimens.

 

[bluemax]

Yes, 'way back when I used to grow this species, I kept it in standing water all of the time. It did well that way. In fact I was surprised when I started growing other species of Nepenthes that they didn't like their toes continually wet. Khasiana was once one of the most common of the genus in cultivation.