H. Minor - Old Reliable

[carnivoure12]

Hey everyone,

My Nepenthes my favourite genus of CP's have been letting me down because i keep watering my terrium neps too much, and have had a few loses.

However here's my favourite plant i have in the terrium it has never skip[ped a beat no matter what conditions its suffered. I really enjoy this plant, and grows very nicely. Its old reliable, has never let me down!

Needs to be divided though!

when I got it a year ago

 

[Clue]

Carn: Very nice plant, I wish I had some Helis.

On a side note: I'm glad you don't use the trashy sheet moss, like in the last photo, anymore.

 

[Capensis]

Very nice. It surely has a grown a lot.

 

[carnivoure12]

Clue its actually still in that trashy moss i just threw a single live sphagnum strand and it now has grown as a top layer, the rest is that trashy moss.

 

[Clue]

Clue its actually still in that trashy moss i just threw a single live sphagnum strand and it now has grown as a top layer, the rest is that trashy moss.

*Gasps in horror*

 

[Baylorguy]

Love Helis! Good growing.

 

[Ant]

beauty of a plant, and don't divide it! MAKE IT HUGE!

 

[RSS]

Nice growing there, can't wait for mine to get that big.

 

[RL7836]

Another storm coming, time for pics. The cooler weather has been kind to my little H. minor's. Here are 3 pics of my largest from today:

What I would have given for 1) manual focus & 2) controllable depth-of-field. :-( Heli's have so many photogenic aspects to them.... I definitely see a DSLR in my future....

Not a Heli but here's a little bonus - U. nephrophylla flower. There was no detectable wind outside when I went out but that tall spindly stalk moved with every infinitesimally tiny breath mother nature let out. Took over 30 pics & only one was close to being in focus ...

.... and a hint of other blooms to come .....

 

[BigBella]

I would also suggest waiting to divide the H. minor until perhaps next year. Wait for it to produce a thick network of roots . . .

 

[Jayson16]

Looks good carn, also love!! the helis.

 

[RL7836]

I would also suggest waiting to divide the H. minor until perhaps next year. Wait for it to produce a thick network of roots . . .

I'm guessing that this comment is for Carnivoure12 ... since I don't really have any plans to divide this plant anytime soon (the last 3 Heli pics are not the same as those posted earlier...).

My apologies for the confusion though - rather than start a new thread, I just grabbed a not-too-old H. minor thread to pop some new pics in. I now see the error of my ways ...

 

[Zero]

Wow, great Helis!

 

[carnivoure12]

Update on my H. Minor (old reliable)

 

[BigBella]

Beautiful!

H.minor has always been a favorite of mine . . .

 

[petmantis]

Oh my...! When you say it needs division, you mean it

 

[carnivoure12]

Hi Bigbella, thank you very much! I love it too, it has inspired me to aquire a H. Neblinae. This is an easy growing heli, and had never let me down. Those dead picthers didn't like the stronger lights and shrivelled, the rest were made after.

Needs a repotting though.

Oh And thanks Mr. Matei of the Sarrsdale

 

[BigBella]

Hi Bigbella, thank you very much! I love it too, it has inspired me to aquire a H. Neblinae. This is an easy growing heli, and had never let me down. Those dead picthers didn't like the stronger lights and shrivelled, the rest were made after.

Needs a repotting though.

Oh And thanks Mr. Matei of the Sarrsdale

I would let that plant fill the pot even further. When I saw H. minor and H. pulchella in the wild back in the 1990s, you cannot believe how thick and tight the clumps were with almost no compost; that, and it also looks the best that way . . .

 

[Av8tor1]

very nicely done C12...

 

[carnivoure12]

It has been a while since I posted an update on my minor.

When I first recieved it, it was small, and didn't have much colour. It went into a growth spurt, then its starting dividing into new plants.

Well fuelled by the urge to divide it over the irrational fear of it dying in a cramped pot I divided it into individual plants. Well it didn't go very well. Only the mature division and a smaller one survived.

This month they've finally started more active growing, here are some pics of it today ( It's not even the shadow of if its past self, however, it keeps proving to be a old reliable and I'm sure soons enough I'll have another lush minor! and this time I'm not going to let the flower scape burn when it flower!