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Post by nepsaroundthehouse on May 24, 2008 3:07:11 GMT -10
Jeff,
For the most part I've never seen a BE group order mainly because BE plants are widely available. Exotica Plants are harder to come by since very few vendors offer them for resale.
J
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Post by jefforever on May 24, 2008 8:30:46 GMT -10
Thanks for the tips guys.
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Post by nepsaroundthehouse on May 25, 2008 3:47:12 GMT -10
For what it's worth. Looks like BE will have some small seed grown hamatas to become available. They will be high end. There was talk that all of the available tc hamatas were male if memory serves. This may increase the gene pool with more seed grown specimens around. I would guess that some of these will be in tc and be more readily available next year like other new offerings.
J
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Post by nepsaroundthehouse on Jun 1, 2008 13:08:44 GMT -10
The seed grown N. hamatas are now on the BE list. The CP Jungle is doing advanced placed orders if anyone is looking to reserve one. They're not cheap but from the description, they should be well hardened and unique.
J
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Post by nepsaroundthehouse on Jun 13, 2008 3:20:45 GMT -10
Looks like BE released a new seed raised hybrid of boschiana x densiflora. Also they have a variety of ventricosa that is similar to burkeii.
J
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Post by philgreen on Jun 16, 2008 12:05:15 GMT -10
BE have also got spathulata x mira as New for June. I hope I've got both reserved ;D
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Post by rainforest on Jun 17, 2008 12:39:36 GMT -10
Aside from making hybrids, I would hope that BE would attempt to produce MORE seed original species. It's ironic that they are attempting to infiltrate the hybrid seed grown market when their true mission is to propagate species in order to "save" them. While I am not a huge fan of tc plants, growing more species even from captive produced plants in the way of seed originals is the way to go. Imagine all of the previous work done on tc species that that much time, energy and money spent and we're no better ahead than we were from its inception. I hope enough original material was kept for tc propagation in numbers greater than three. The average ratio I have seen is one female for every six male seedlings. Let's pray there's more than six plants reserved for tc!
M
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Post by philgreen on Jun 18, 2008 9:12:40 GMT -10
Aside from making hybrids, I would hope that BE would attempt to produce MORE seed original species. Completely agree, and with the rest of it. Lets hope they are reading. Although, with the amount of wild seed now being sold and cultivated seed be produced, we'll probably be drowning in seedlings in a few years - I know I will be.
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Post by cloudsitter on Jun 18, 2008 19:53:46 GMT -10
Let the revolution begin!
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Post by nepsaroundthehouse on Jun 23, 2008 3:25:44 GMT -10
Exotica just made available N. lowii x campanulata. Let the stampede begin.
J
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Post by nepsaroundthehouse on Aug 26, 2008 14:45:14 GMT -10
The Nepenthes Nursery or Wistuba has N. tenuis cuttings available as of 8 / 26. Probably small and at 120.00 euro which is like 180.00 US. It's a collector's Nepenthes but he has some on his site. I've never seen them available from anyone else other than private collections as of now.
J
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Post by nepsaroundthehouse on Nov 9, 2008 3:41:03 GMT -10
Exotica updated their site a few days ago. Some new hybrids include ventricosa x ephippiata, lowii x boschiana, ventricosa x ramispina, ventricosa x sibuyanensis xx trusmadiensis, veitchii x boschiana. These were just a few of the ones that caught my eye.
J
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Post by rainforest on Nov 12, 2008 10:15:58 GMT -10
What is great about ep's offerings is that they come back and show photos of their true hybrid crosses. Of course we all drop our jaw when we see them, at least we know what the potential is. What you should be concerned of are those who make hybrids and not show what they should resemble or know what specific parents were used to make the cross you bought. AS more species show their flowers we will see more interesting hybrids come about. It was once a novel trend to see N. Trusmadiensis to be in a hybrid, now we look forward to what we can cross this to next. Imagine when a flowering N. rajah or a macrophylla or burbidgeae comes into flower.
M
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Post by nepsaroundthehouse on Nov 13, 2008 15:59:19 GMT -10
There's no doubt EP is the leader in hybridization. I believe there's only one "clone" of ephippiata that originated from Wistuba? BE has one clone that originated from Germany. And since they (EP) released ventricosa x ephippiata it must be a male. Now I don't know if there's seed collected ephippiatas out there. Probably likely. But I wonder if EP's ephippiata is from the German clone. Anyhow, EP is obviously growing these species to flowering adulthood and doing incredible things with them. I'd also toss out that their seedlings are well hardened and rarely suffer any transplant shock or stress. I don't know what they do, but their crosses are almost bulletproof.
J
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Post by nepsaroundthehouse on Nov 27, 2008 3:25:59 GMT -10
Borneo Exotics has a few new releases for November. For some of us this may be old news but here goes.
They have densiflora x spectabilis all from seed. Also there's spathulata x spectabilis all from seed as well. And finally on the list is sibuyanensis x ventricosa from seed and tc.
BE also released N. gracillima, can't remember if it's from seed or tc, that will be available through the CP Jungle and Exotic Plants Plus or Tony. This particular species was only available from Wistuba up until now. It doesn't appear on BE's list but importers often get word of upcoming Nepenthes before the rest of us.
J
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