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Post by vraev on Jun 7, 2007 22:05:27 GMT
damn! I would love to have even one of those small ceph plugs. Its sooo beautiful. WOW!!
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Post by wadave on Jun 29, 2007 10:01:51 GMT
I've been lucky enough to visit Phill's setup and it is quite impressive.
His large cephs were a sight to see, quite breath taking infact.
I will see if I can manage to put some photo's of the plants I received from Phill about 12 months ago.
I have mimicked Phill's greenhouse setup where the plants recieve overhead watering and they seem to love it.
After looking at them in the wild and observing the slow moving water they sit in I'm not surprised they like water flowing over their roots instead of stagnant water in a tray.
The bonus of overhead watering is that all my plants seem to be far happier, and my Heli's seem to love it giving me plenty of growth during the year.
Dave.
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Post by wadave on Jun 29, 2007 12:11:43 GMT
yep it worked, so I've got some pics of my cephs plus some shots of a field trip I took at the end of last year.
Plus I've also managed to add some photos of some of my pings in the ping section.
Dave.
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Post by droseraguy on Jun 29, 2007 20:34:32 GMT
Great shot of the bench full o' cephs. picrophyll. The pots look like they are 7 x 12cm ?
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Post by agustinfranco on Dec 7, 2007 12:07:59 GMT
Hi all:
The question of the elusive giant forms keeps coming back to haunt us!. Are there really giant forms?.That's very complex question. We know for sure that large pitchers are produced by certain clones like hummer's and big boy, but we must learn to understand how these plants grow before we can categorize anything.
To be honest with you all, even the so called giant forms produce mostly regular sized pitchers and when the plant gets very mature then larger pitchers are produced, but most of these are not large enough to call them giant pitchers.
Besides those pitchers produced in plants from some well experienced growers, one can very rarely appreciate giant pitchers in the so called giant forms!. If anybody has a recent photo of a giant form with mature pitchers, please post it, i'd be very interested in studying it! Thanks.
Gus
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Post by wadave on Dec 8, 2007 2:45:11 GMT
Hi Gus,
When I went to visit cephalotus in the wild last year I noticed one clump of plants that produced traps of a significantly larger size than the rest.
The largest was about 6 cm from the tip of the open lid to the base of the trap and it measured around 4 cm wide.
It certainly wasn't in the proportions of the giant traps I've heard about, measuring three inches, but out of the thousands of plants that I saw this one was very much larger.
Phill manages to grow very, very nice cephs and some were impressively large as you saw from his photo of the 7 cm pitcher.
I've also read that by giving them less light they grow bigger, so with this in mind the wild ceph mentioned above may produce bigger traps if it wasn't exposed to the full summer sun. During our summer the days stretch out to 15 hours of daylight or more and the intensity is very high.
But again I'm not the expert, I simply follow Phil's lead, and the other proviso is I've only been lucky enough to see them in one place so who knows what is out there?
Dave.
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Post by agustinfranco on Dec 8, 2007 12:00:18 GMT
Hi Dave;
Very interesting observation, indeed. Thanks. I am aware of the cephalotus with large traps, but then again, if it is solely a genetic trait, why then a clump of plants just had those large pitchers and not more plants around these, as cephalotus tends to self propagate by either seed or divisions. It is a very interesting observation. Thanks
Considering now the clones found in cultivation, i've heard that only few hummer's giants tend to produce large pitchers and these are not produced all the time. Anyone else cares to contribute to this topic?
Thanks
Gus
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Post by DelawareJim on Dec 22, 2007 14:15:22 GMT
Great looking plants. I noticed you weren't using a tray method and the pots looked fairly deep versus their width. What is your potting mix and how frequently do you water?
Cheers. Jim
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Post by picrophyll on Dec 22, 2007 15:37:06 GMT
Jim Pot size doesn't really matter as long as the roots don't remain too wet. The Cephs grow in natural water logged areas where plenty of water moves through the soil either underneath or ontop of the soil. I use ordinary Composted Pine Bark and perlite. It's neutral and pourous but holds plenty of moisture. I also water very heavily washing through the pot constantly. Cheers Phill
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Post by mkburleson on May 6, 2008 17:30:23 GMT
Phil,
Do you have water constantly running through your Cephs or do you just water frequently?
Also, is your soil mix 1:1 Composted Pine Bark : Pearlite?
Thanks for the pics. Your plants are beautiful, as for the ones growing wild I just wish we had sites like that in the US.
Mary:)
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Post by PingKing on May 11, 2008 18:54:09 GMT
beautiful, really amazing nice pictures
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