Update and some pictures

[leilani]

The new greenhouse is going up and between working on that (I'll post some pictures soon), caring for the plants, filling orders and taking care of EVERYTHING ELSE that has to be done around here I have not had much time to comment on threads or post pictures.

I did get a chance to snap a few today so here you go .....

How about a dubia-lookin' thing you can grow lowland ?
N. Triffid [N. splendiana xx dubia]







Or, a squat lowland spectabilis ....
N. Pandora [N. wrigleyana xx spectabilis]







Another highland/lowland combo ...
N. Vanessa [N. spathulata x rafflesiana (Kondo x Singapore)]



How about a BLACK spathulata???
N. Melvino [N. spathulata x bongso]



I am fortunate enought to have both male and female specimens of N. insignis from Biak. I was able to breed these in house and here is a young specimen from that grex.





I don't have the great specimens that our Thailand growers have but I like the colors in this picture of a N. viking.



Here is a plant that has turned out better, and more popular than I would have expected .... with lots of long thin and remarkably solid pitchers.
N. Elizabeth [N. ventrata xx sanguinea]





N. mastersiana on steriods .... big, bold and beautiful ...
N. St Brice [N. alata xx mastersiana]



From collected seed, I'm not exactly sure if this is N. sumatrana x beccariana or N. sumatrana x longifolia but have high expectation either way.





N. St. Phocas [N. tobaica x truncata] moving toward uppers .....



Some misc. plants that I did not get a chance to ID ....







Here is one created by rainforest (I don't think he has seen this one yet) .....
N. (thorelii xx (tiveyi x mixta) x alata





A few more ....

N. merrilliana



N. thorelii xx mixta



A cramped N. thorelii x aristolochioides ....



A couple of N. rafflesiana x mirabilis, winged ...





N. lavacola from BE ...



Finally, some of Exotica's best .....

[joel143]

Am speechless....beautiful! Thanks for sharing.

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[nepenthesfinatic13]

Wow!! those are some amazing nepenthes!! I love the lowland dubia shaped one! And how old is the truncata in the last pic and is it actually getting a vine??

[dvg]

Great assortment of beautiful, healthy and well cultivated Nepenthes pitchers.

Thanks for sharing!

dvg

[thezyo]

Niiice.

[cosmo]

Amazing! Congratulations Leilani, the thorellii x aristolochioides is particularly the one I would consider the most impressive of all, it's splendid!

[sirkristoff]

something about the thorelii x aristolochioides makes me think of those guys at the bars who suck their guts in whenever a pretty girl walks by haha....
love the plants, Sam....

[Noa_F]

Looking great as usual Sam! Would love to see the greenhouse and some of those beautiful plants one of these days.

I especially like the merilliana and N. melvino!

Noa

[crusher]

Beautiful neps man especially N. Melvino and lowii!!!

[morbus]

seriously Sam . . .
Amazing
im now officially over super heroes - when i grow up i wana be just like you
the dubia look alike is very cool - please make an Inermis as well
how big do those "dubia" pitchers get? and it probably grows much faster then the real dubia?
this may be a noob question - but is insignis at all related to burkei? (other than the obvious "nepenthes" relationship )
I hope exotica give you commission on their sales because you just made an advertisement for them. those are super superb plants - all of them!!
awesome Sam!!

[vraev]

Amazing Sam. I just can't take my eyes off the wonderful live moss dressing you have got there. Beautiful!!

[mikuláš]

The plants are stunning, Sam, and the black spathulata is genius. I particularly like the lowland x highland crosses, like Triffid and Pandora. As you mentioned for Triffid, I think that's one of the great things about all your splendiana hybrids -- highland pitcher shapes & colors on a plant that can do quite well (not just survive) in lowland conditions.

Kudos on the seed-grown insignis. To my eye the insignis pitcher is somewhere between a ventricosa and a maxima, aesthetically (not taxonomically) speaking. I've heard it's not a strong vining plant, and so I wonder if it could be used to make some lowland versions of popular ventricosa or maxima hybrids. I could imagine insignis x TM, insignis x bongso, insignis x talangensis, insignis x Tiveyi, insignis x ephippiata, x lowii, etc. Never hurts to dream

[crusher]

What mix do you use for Neps???