Mass's GH's

[mass]

Few pics this evening before my new filters arrive tomorrow..

freshly opened kids.. veitchii K and platychila.

Put the two together and what do ya get? veitchii x platychila of course..

N. 'Viscarla' with some hot lips.

Also pretty fresh, not quite colored up yet. N. veitchii x lowii

Oooo.. come on squamosa. Now your just teasing me!

Already starting to see some variation in the N. 'Sabre'.

Not as nice as the other pitchers from this lowii x spectabilis, but still a looker.

Now everyone say.. CHEESE!!

N. x leessii intermediate pitcher all colored up.

If your already missing teeth when your lid opens, you might be a redneck..

The cephs are taking a hit from the change in lighting. Just can't seem to find that sweet spot since I rehung the lights.

My red cloned typical not too sure about the changes in light.

One of my purple cloned typicals looking a bit green and starved for light.

First adult from my new "Czech Giant".

"Big Boy" chugging along..

"Vigorous Clumping" still doing it's thing.

Crappy pic.. but I can't WAIT for this one. Seed grown N. veitchii HL.

Some companion plants starting to get big.

 

[kulamauiman]

Mass:

do you find that N. x leessii is more of a intermediate or warmer condition liking nep? i have a rooted cutting and it has really be slow to take off in my outdoor conditions. it might be another that i might contemplating moving down to the college

 

[ellisonk001]

Beautiful pictures of some great plants, as always! I really like the veitchii x lowii and the x sabre clones...

 

[mass]

Mass:

do you find that N. x leessii is more of a intermediate or warmer condition liking nep? i have a rooted cutting and it has really be slow to take off in my outdoor conditions. it might be another that i might contemplating moving down to the college

Definitely an intermediate-HL.. My two almost died in LL conditions. Also, it REALLY likes it's humidity. Once moved into the cooler conditions they started growing and pitchering like weeds.

 

[jbradt]

Awesome! I love lowii crosses and yours looks great!

 

[btmurph]

Oooo.. come on squamosa. Now your just teasing me!

Sorry, couldn't help myself... looks awesome

 

[mass]

Stuff..

I'll start with the little GH.

Some pings..

Some petiolaris dews.. a couple paradoxa, a kenneallyi in the back, and my newest addition.. D. falconeri just in and getting settled.

A Hummer's Giant..

haha.. I stole a tiny branch of this from my mother's tree, stuck it in water, and it has grown into what you see today.

D. binata var. dichotoma & D. binata var. dichotoma 'Giant' from my own propagation efforts. Finally starting to get some size to them..

P. reticulata taking it's sweet time putting up it's two long awaited flowers.

Some of my prized pings..

And now onto the larger GH..

Took these group shots just for you Megan.

Some sarr stuff I just moved inside to avoid frost.

Tuberous stuff..

N. sanguinea 'Orange'

N. tobaica x talangensis putting all of the surrounding plants on lock down with it's forming uppers.

Drooling N. x leessii

The always underrated N. Miranda

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Cephalotus "Typical" red clone

Cephalotus "Czech Giant"

D. 'B52'

D. schizandra

D. erythrorhiza ssp. squamosa (Albany Hwy)

D. erythrorhiza ssp. squamosa seedlings

D. erythrorhiza ssp. magna seedlings

D. sp, 'Carbarup'

D. allantostigma

D. peltata 'White Flower'

"Look at the bat wing @#$%!!!"... "It's sooo veiny." ~ Anyone.. anyone?

seed grown Snake Pit.

Cephalotus "Typical" purple clone

D. madagascariensis starting to flower

D. burmannii 'Red' (Triffid Rosewater) went from beat red, to flowering and bright green. No change in conditions, light, anything. It's puzzling..

And my cutest babies of all.. Mallory and her kid sister Thebe

 

[Brie]

AWESOME PHOTOS!!!

and also, "Waiting". *grabs some raw chicken skin and makes the Bat Wing*

 

[meka]

Mmm. Ceph pr0n.

 

[kulamauiman]

hmmm no ideas why D. burmannii 'Red' would stop being red.... might want to check light output on the T5 bulbs maybe one crapping out?

 

[carnivoure12]

Beautiful plants mass! Really like that vining N. tobaica x talangensis, the tuberous dew, and all your other cools dews!

 

[mass]

Why thankya. Your all too kind..

And you may be on to something Mach. Would the bulbs go bad after only a year?

 

[Wire Man]

So much new eye candy.

 

[btmurph]

And you may be on to something Mach. Would the bulbs go bad after only a year?

What's the photo-period you're using? We tell our customers a year for T-5HO's but that's usually with them running 24 hrs. a day. If you run some nite-time (which I seem to remember) they should last at least 1.5 yrs... but no guarantees! They could go sooner fer sure...

Disclaimer: the lamps will still light-up but the lumens will reduce over a fairly short time for lamps at the end of their useful life... without a light meter there's no way to tell

 

[mass]

huh.. perhaps it's time to go shopping then.

 

[mass]

Just a few things that caught my eye this morning..

Pot-O-Cephs

Turning out to be quite the little Faux of Eden.

D. regia getting stretchy..

Newest companion to the neps.. Hemionitis Arifolia ~ Arrowhead Fern

N. platychila

N. truncata's newest

N. veitchii x lowii

N. truncata x veitchii HL

 

[dionae]

Dude, youre such a good grower. I really like that red ceph. Is that a cultivar or just a typical? The ceph I got from you last year, I think it was, is really turning out to be a beauty. She has a nice burgundy red color and is putting out her first juvenile pitchers. I'm very proud of it, thanks!

 

[mass]

yeah, the red one is just a typical. I call it.. "HELL BOY"

 

[dionae]

Thats an apt name.

 

[mikefallen13]

Wow mass!! Beautiful cephs!! And how's the lowii x truncata 'squat' doing?