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Post by picrophyll on Mar 16, 2007 15:52:04 GMT
I posted a few photos here this week and they have disappeared. Here's a few more that may be of interest. The birth of Fatso  Fatso in the wild  Fatso in cultivation  A large pitcher  Crowded bench  Flowers & seed set  A colony growing in full sun  Individual clumps   |
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Post by pthiel on Mar 17, 2007 2:14:06 GMT
Phill,
I love the photos but man do they make me jealous. How are you growing your cultivated plants - I never seem to be able to get them to turn that rich red, they always stay green in my current conditions.
Cheers
Pete
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Post by picrophyll on Mar 17, 2007 4:45:02 GMT
Pete
Greetings, I think the big secret is that thing called constant sunlight.
Unlike you guys who delve into the dark ages when it is bleak and snowing fopr the best part of 1/3 of the year.
No really my glasshouse/greenhouse is very bright and with our summer drawing to an end the temps reduce but not the light.
The photo with the large number of Cephs came from an area which is probably close to our wettest place in West Aust and as you can see the sunlight has turned them purple/black.
I still think the big secret to growing Cephs is to keep the temps around 18 - 25C and plenty of water through the pots but not standing in it.
Cheers
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Post by neps on Mar 17, 2007 4:48:24 GMT
Truly excellent, Phill! Some of the best looking Cephs I've ever seen!
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Post by Clint on Mar 17, 2007 19:14:26 GMT
No, I moved them to the field section.
FANTASTIC! I love it! Are you planning on registering this?
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Post by loakesy on Mar 17, 2007 19:37:43 GMT
Absolutely beautiful!!!
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Post by chug on Mar 18, 2007 7:25:09 GMT
Great looking plants.. and so nice and red! It always seems to look great in its natural habitat.  |
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Post by picrophyll on Mar 18, 2007 10:27:37 GMT
"FANTASTIC! I love it! Are you planning on registering this?"
JustLikeAPill
I'd like to register it but at the moment it is near impossible to multiply. All the other clones I have are just flying along, all bar this one. I'd like to get it big enough to pull apart and get into culture.
Cheers
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Post by Sockhom on Mar 18, 2007 17:11:02 GMT
Fabulous  ! That's one of the best Cephalotus i've ever seen. The pictures in the wild are awesome. François. |
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Post by purpman on Mar 19, 2007 0:24:57 GMT
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Post by pinglover on Mar 19, 2007 2:15:53 GMT
Here's my little 'Hummer's Giant', dare to compare with all the gorgeous photos you posted of cephs? Just teasing. I know mine is itty bitty but it's my very first. I would have placed a ruler in the photo to illustrate how tiny mine really is but I was afraid I might damage my plant.  |
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Post by Steve D on Mar 21, 2007 0:40:25 GMT
Here's my little 'Hummer's Giant', dare to compare with all the gorgeous photos you posted of cephs? Just teasing. I know mine is itty bitty but it's my very first. I would have placed a ruler in the photo to illustrate how tiny mine really is but I was afraid I might damage my plant. That's a beautiful little Ceph! Mine started out the same way 2 years ago, and it seemed like it was going to take forever for it to grow to moderate size. But they really do build up speed and vigor and grow faster and faster in a kind of geometric-progression way over time. It just takes a bit of patience (and lots of other plants to distract your attention) to not become too frustrated with their initial slow growth, I think. Anyway, it looks really healthy and nice to me. :-) |
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Post by pinglover on Mar 21, 2007 1:58:26 GMT
I felt sort of silly posting a photo of my plant after picrophyll and purpman posted all those really great images but I must admit I didn't think mine was all that slow growing. I have an original photo of it when it was the size of a dime and now it is about the size of a silver dollar so it has about tripled in the past 6 months. Overall, I'm very pleased but naturally I look forward to it hitting warp speed in growth.
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Post by Jefforever on Mar 31, 2007 1:20:38 GMT
In the first pic are those all flowers? I've never seen anything like that on my plant. Wow. You're all ceph masters.  |
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Post by picrophyll on Mar 31, 2007 9:37:50 GMT
Jefforever
Greetings. The flowers on the Cephs are small and rather insignificant. they are usually on a very long stem to get them above the surrounding plants. What you see in that photo is the new flowers as well as the old (brown) and the seed as it is released. Just in case you are not familiar with the seeds, they are the little white fury parts in the middle of the photo. Normally the flower spiders live on these and the web tends to tie up the seeds.
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