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Post by sykosarah on Feb 19, 2014 7:07:04 GMT
I finally purchased my first nepenthes, but it won't arrive until after spring break because, well, Michigan winter is a killer, particularly this year. Come on, it has been colder here than in Alaska, how does that happen?
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Post by hcarlton on Feb 19, 2014 15:00:55 GMT
Jet stream fluctuation.
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Post by sykosarah on Feb 19, 2014 18:12:42 GMT
I was just showing my angst, I didn't expect an answer.
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Post by bromguy on Feb 26, 2014 1:32:59 GMT
Absolutely gorgeous! Oh, how I yearn for a green house.
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Post by sykosarah on Feb 26, 2014 14:23:29 GMT
I live in Michigan, so I am pretty much restricted to growing my plants indoors.
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Post by hcarlton on Feb 26, 2014 15:21:37 GMT
How I yearn for a bigger greenhouse... the big one sits in my living room..... and most of my plants are indoors as well, the only ones that aren't, during summer only, are Sarracenia, Dionaea, and certain sundews.
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Post by sykosarah on Feb 26, 2014 15:51:43 GMT
I can't really put my plants outside so much either, summers often get too hot and can be a bit dry (although winters are much drier). It is no wonder that Michigan is pretty much a CP wasteland. Really cold and dry winters (dry air), really hot and sometimes dry summers, lime and other mineral deposits that prevent most areas from having acidic soil. It is a miracle that even the 3 species that are seen here in small numbers (two drosera, I think, and sarracenia purpurea sub. purpurea) manage to get by.
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Post by hcarlton on Feb 27, 2014 1:19:30 GMT
Michigan has a number of cp's actually: S. purpurea, D. linearis, D. anglica, D. rotundifolia, possibly D. intermedia, Utricularia species.... and as for dry, my Sarracenia experience days regularly with humidity no higher than 5%, and temps in excess of 100 F.
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Post by sykosarah on Feb 27, 2014 15:24:05 GMT
Michigan also supposedly has black widow spiders, but good luck finding one.
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Post by hcarlton on Mar 5, 2014 15:58:43 GMT
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Post by sykosarah on Mar 6, 2014 4:08:13 GMT
Seeing all the pics of your nepenthes makes me all the more impatient for the weather to improve so that I can get my own.
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Post by hcarlton on Mar 10, 2014 15:04:13 GMT
Always more! N. copelandii is producing huge pitchers for the leaf size N. (inermis x singalana) x mira is a very vigorous plant... this thing's produced probably 6 or 7 basals (not all still extant however) And, it appears my N. khasiana may finally be settling in properly
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Post by sykosarah on Mar 10, 2014 15:48:32 GMT
You have such a variety. With the weather finally starting to warm up where I live, hopefully I will be able to post my own nepenthes pictures!
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Post by hcarlton on Mar 22, 2014 23:29:31 GMT
Major repotting of everything this week, so I snapped some pics as I was moving things around and such.... N. ventricosa x gymnamphora in its full length. It is probably around 5 feet long now, and as I found out when I repotted it, has 2 basals. Hopefully the bigger pot will make it flower.... 2 N. ventricosa "red" pitchers, showing the difference between a shade and sun pitcher This is a SG neoguineensis "Cyclops Mtn. Jayapura, New Guinea" and the whole plant. I have 3 currently The newest pitcher on my SG lowland truncata is nearly twice the length of its leaf... And the peristome is already showing promising stripes... N. Viking #19 x (maxima x trusmadiensis): when I got this plant last September or so, it was only around 8 inches across New pitcher on the mystery glabrata hybrid the jacq influence is finally really showing through on the spathulata x jacquelineae Fully colored pitcher on gymnamphora x bongso Big copelandii pitchers (inermis x singalana) x mira khasiana New clipeata x (clipeata x eymae) pitcher: the plant is starting to get huge After many months of waiting, my newest rafflesiana "Brunei Giant Red BE-88" pitcher opened! And, last of all, the new ventricosa x spathulata pitcher
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Post by sykosarah on Mar 23, 2014 2:38:07 GMT
How do you repot plants with such extensive vines without damaging them?
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