dueoka's plants

[dueoka]

My first bunch of pictures of my plants! Enjoy!

My grow area

N. truncata

N. maxima

Day gecko

I'll post some pics of the hanging pots soon...

 

[Heli]

nice plants! That gecko is pretty awesome too.

 

[tje25]

Awsome setup!!! Very nice!!

 

[dueoka]

Thanks! It's small, but slowly growing. I also have some plants hanging above.

 

[bluemax]

I'm thinking that I've never seen a photo of a N. maxima lower. Nice. 'Can't help but like the gecko.

 

[tje25]

Ya you think its "slowly" growing... untill one day you go to fit something in there and realize you have no more room hahaha

 

[dueoka]

Those day geckos are everywhere! This one was on an empty bottle in the kitchen! I have a small population in plants but the neps keep them in check....

 

[tje25]

What!!!! thats sweet!!! I want one lol... there just wild there?

 

[dueoka]

Here's a baby on an unopened truncata x maxima pitcher...

 

[Nepenthesis]

Haha, I love those little geckos in Hawaii! When I went to Kauai, there were these little orange geckos crawling all over the inside of the house. Such cute little guys.

 

[potted_plants]

Nice plants... especially the maxima.
As for the geckos, if one of my neps caught one then I would free it immediately.

 

[Thagirion]

Nice plants. I like the truncatas. The lizard is cute especially on the pitcher.

 

[dueoka]

Nice plants... especially the maxima.
As for the geckos, if one of my neps caught one then I would free it immediately.

The ones I found were already dead. The first time I saw one in a pitcher, I actually considered giving up my plants. And it was in a maxima pitcher... :-(

 

[zlookup]

Nicely grown. Love the Truncata.

 

[dueoka]

Thanks everyone!

Looking back, the plants have come a long way! Here's the setup at the beginning of the year...

N. truncata x maxima (you can see my tanks in the background)

Older N. maxima pitcher

 

[Thagirion]

Love the pic with all the tanks in the background. Looks very interesting.

 

[UnstuckinTime]

Love the pic with all the tanks in the background. Looks very interesting.

I second that. It looks like you're up to some serious stuff back there. Let us see! Let us see!!

 

[potted_plants]

wow...

 

[dueoka]

Thanks for the comments! Taking pictures of the fish is a lot harder than taking pics of the plants... I'll work on it!

I'm going to enter a plant in POTM because it's been with me for six months. But I have a question on it's identification and I want to know what to call it. To me it looks like truncata x veitchii, but I got it as truncata x maxima.

It's a lot fatter then the truncata x maxima pictures I've seen and also very hairy. The newest tendril is always hairy, so are the leaves, stems and the sides of the pitchers. What do you think?

http://www.cpphotofinder.com/nepenthes-x-maxima-x-truncata-1374.html

 

[dueoka]

Anyone? Sorry the pics are bad, I took them in the morning when it wasn't very bright...

Here's a quick pick of another gecko. I've noticed that there's a male/female pair that hangs around the plants. I think this is the female. They're always chasing each other and darting away when I come near. I've started to put our mango slices for them and sometimes I catch them licking at it!