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Post by brokken on Sept 1, 2008 5:09:36 GMT
A couple of months back, I got my first ceph - though for the most part, it seemed to survive the trek via snail-mail shortly after I got it all the leaves started dying. I later read in the forum that it's not uncommon for a ceph to lose all its leaves after shipping and mine was a textbook example of this. It died down to one small pitcher which was forming when I got the plant and the two non-carnivorous leaves in the picture. Since then it's made a good recovery in my lowland-nepenthes terrarium. I've read that it's not a good idea to keep the plant in standing water, but generally it gets watered from below when I flood the bottom of the terrarium and so far so good. I'll post occasional pictures to keep track of progress.  |
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Post by vraev on Sept 1, 2008 20:34:25 GMT
looking good. Keep it up.  |
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Post by jj1109 on Sept 6, 2008 23:22:31 GMT
nice looks like you have a little Drosera hitchhiker on the left there! |
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Post by brokken on Sept 7, 2008 16:58:45 GMT
nice looks like you have a little Drosera hitchhiker on the left there! They get everywhere! When I got the pot, it was on its side and the soil had settled to that one side, so I took a little mix from one of my bogs and voila! The last thing I want though is more D. capensis or binata growing in those pots though, so regretably they have reached the point where I need to treat them as weeds and remove them. There are plenty of its brothers and sisters growing in my other bogs though. |
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Post by alec000 on Sept 14, 2008 14:32:08 GMT
You said that your growing it in a lowland tank?
I thought that Cephs needed cooler temps- like a highland terrarium.
i just got my first ceph. Its outside so that it gets cooling at night- seems to be fine, but I'm confused.
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Post by brokken on Sept 14, 2008 16:32:35 GMT
It still gets a drop in temperature at night, but not quite as severe as Cephs would encounter in their natural habitat. Plants can tolerate a range of temperatures and what works for me may not work for you.
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Post by brokken on Oct 6, 2008 4:47:09 GMT
You said that your growing it in a lowland tank? I thought that Cephs needed cooler temps- like a highland terrarium. i just got my first ceph. Its outside so that it gets cooling at night- seems to be fine, but I'm confused. My tank consist of a relatively large 55 gallon tank which has a reservoir of about 5 inches of water (about 5 gallons). There is a fishtank heater which keeps the water at around 84 degrees. This creates a nice differential at night between the night air of San Jose (about 40 degrees in winter) and the mean temperature inside the covered tank such that at nights, there's actually quite a bit of humidity created during the evening hours. This seems to suit my ceph, but in reality this will be the first year growing them this way - so I don't know for a fact that this is the best way to grow them. I will report on them during the winter months and the following spring if they survive. I plan to leave this setup outside and will continue to monitor to see if this is appropriate for them to grow in this weather. |
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Post by brokken on Nov 1, 2008 20:03:01 GMT
Giant vs typical form:  |
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Post by brokken on Dec 26, 2008 19:14:23 GMT
This is what they look as of 12/26/2008:  |
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Post by brokken on Dec 26, 2008 21:07:00 GMT
 And this is the smaller of my two cephalotus. |
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Post by sundewman on Dec 28, 2008 6:26:23 GMT
wow, that is some impressive growth in a pretty short amount of time.
lookin good.
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Post by gold3nku5h on Dec 29, 2008 5:52:31 GMT
Im so jealous of your mosses, i bought some dwarf sphagnum moss off a guys website, and it came looking like a lump of the sphag you would get at a store, but still a little greenish, its not discolored completely yet, but i dont think it will ever look as lush as yours  |
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Post by SundeWCitY on Jan 21, 2009 23:42:15 GMT
very nice !! I d love to get one someday lol
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