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Post by rainforest on May 31, 2009 8:10:16 GMT -10
I have had this plant for years and it has never really taken off for me. I am planning to do some intensive media changes and perhaps changes its location. This is the hard, heavy leafed form of maxima. Anyone else grows this? How do you grow yours? M
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Dave Evans
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Post by Dave Evans on Jun 11, 2009 10:51:45 GMT -10
Hello Michael,
I don't grow this plant, but I've seen some examples of it and they seem to hate hot temperatures. I don't know how many clones of this variety are cultivation, but I haven't seen much variation and I've only seen smaller examples that were growing well.
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Post by walterg on Aug 26, 2009 6:14:12 GMT -10
I have several thousand seeds going from 3 different collections, and I have distributed samples to 20-25 people in 8 countries, so with luck there will be a lot of them in cultivation soon.
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Post by philgreen on Aug 26, 2009 8:06:28 GMT -10
Nearly 2 years ago, Stewart had some maxima Wavy leaf seeds amongst the large seed offer he made. I have 2 seedlings gorwing and there will be loads more amongst 'god knows' how many collections.
I also have germinated so far (more expected), just over 20 each of two different 'Giant wavy leafed' maxima's. These came from Ebay and many more were offered. So like Walter, I guess give it a few years and hundreds if not thousands of clones will be around.
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kentosaurs
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Post by kentosaurs on Aug 28, 2009 13:55:34 GMT -10
Hi guys....I too got some seeds from walterg...Still waiting for germination and it is in lowland conditions...It was labeled N maxima tentena but i cant seem to find much info on it
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Post by philgreen on Aug 30, 2009 1:09:09 GMT -10
Hi guys....I too got some seeds from walterg...Still waiting for germination and it is in lowland conditions...It was labeled N maxima tentena but i cant seem to find much info on it That sounds like the Giant wavy leaf (from near Tentena area-Central Sulawesi), there were 2 clones on offer both described "Not far from the habitat can be found Glabrata and Tentaculata.This form of Maxima are huge in size and have a wide colorful peristome like hurreliana and candy stripe veitchii." The pictures showed clone 1 as having a greener body colour, with clone 2 having more/bigger reddish splotches. It's hard to be sure from the pic's, but I would guess they show pitchers about 25-30cm tall. Both very nice - I'm looking forward to seeing them develope.
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