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Post by twoton on Jun 6, 2008 17:54:49 GMT -10
Wowwwww!!!!
What's the name of that small mammal again that lives in symbiosis with N. lowii? (it eats the "sherbet" while crapping into the pitcher, thus fertilizing the plant.)
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Post by twoton on Jun 2, 2008 20:29:09 GMT -10
I grow mine outside, a hundred feet from a large forest infested with ferns (small ferns, medium ferns, huge ferns, tree ferns...) so I can't escape the spores.
Michael, thanks for the input on those possibly beneficial symbioses.
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Post by twoton on Jun 2, 2008 20:26:12 GMT -10
Great topic! I've never thought of this differentiation, but now that you mention it...
SOME monkeys, not all!
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Post by twoton on May 26, 2008 4:42:43 GMT -10
François,
thanks for the warning about the root system. I'll give that a checkup....
Rich,
I have a baby bath-sized pot housing a fifteen-foot ventricosa x khasiana that keeps making basals. LARGE basals, up to two feet across....but you can't see them because they're overgrown by a forest of three-foot tall ferns. It's nature at its best and an awesome sight to behold (well, at least within the realm of my little greenhouse), so even though the ferns keep me from seeing the basals, I can't bring myself to remove them.
Strange, I know...
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Post by twoton on May 23, 2008 20:56:46 GMT -10
Almost every single pot in my greenhouse (and some in the tanks!) has ferns growing in it. There must be at least ten different species, and even more sizes (up to three feet tall). Until now, I've never minded them much, as they're indicator plants for high humidity, keep the humidity up and also contribute to the general jungly feeling in the greenhouse.
But today, for some reason it dawned on me that there might be downsides to these ferns: do they steal nutrition? do they attract pests or diseases? anything else?
What do you guys do with stowaway ferns?
Paranoid in Peihsinchuang
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Post by twoton on May 23, 2008 2:33:44 GMT -10
This is it. I'm now officially suing Sam for lowering my quality of life by continuously showing these nasty pictures of his plants. So far, they have caused anxiety attacks, clinical depression, a fist-sized ulcer, and, first and foremost, nagging envy. Dark green, foul envy that will eventually make me soak my greenhouse in kerosene and throw a match at it.
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Post by twoton on May 21, 2008 0:45:56 GMT -10
Michael,
why do you think this hobby is expensive? I believe a good starter kit for people in temperate zones can be had for as little as fifty bucks US. Sure, the light fixtures and the timer cost some money, but you can get the tank for free, a few starter neps for a tenner or two, and what else do you really need? If you want a greenhouse, then you're of course talking money, but I still think this hobby is WAY cheaper than keeping fish....
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Post by twoton on May 21, 2008 0:16:44 GMT -10
There are a lot of Chinese growers out there! I know two or three from the Taiwanese CP forums, where they keep complaining that nobody's interested in CPs in Mainland China, which explains their defection to the CP forums across the Strait. Tommi, how many people do you think grow CPs in China?
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Post by twoton on May 12, 2008 14:34:35 GMT -10
Yo, Unc, thanks for sharing your microcosmos :-) What critter is that? And what lens did you use for the last shot?
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Post by twoton on May 6, 2008 3:03:33 GMT -10
Love the skin! Hooray for vraev!!
Sayyy....is the word "messages" right next to the "logout" button not supposed to be in a button like the others to the left of it?
The Nerdy Poor Kid :-)
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Post by twoton on May 5, 2008 1:44:29 GMT -10
I agree with Michael: Flora Nepenthaceae or just plain Nepenthaceae sounds very good and flowery (pun intended). A huge caveat here, though: "nepenthaceae" will be misspelled by most people (including me) in most cases - see rainforest's follow-up post right above this one, he added an extra "e" before the first "a". Search any CP forum, and you'll find four or five different spellings. Not everyone's a botanist or knows Latin, and in the long run this might become embarrassing.
PS: Who's Chatsworth, Sam?
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Post by twoton on Apr 30, 2008 15:39:26 GMT -10
Merci, Mr. F :-)
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Post by twoton on Apr 30, 2008 6:08:46 GMT -10
Very intriguing! Who are the parents? And what's a Pandarus?
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Post by twoton on Apr 30, 2008 5:58:25 GMT -10
..first pix this year, that is. I finally managed to start cleaning and weeding the greenhouse today, and here's some of the new growth I found. (Disclaimer: this is the first real camera I've ever owned, and I'm still making more mistakes than progress, so apologies for the semi-crappy pix. The heavy overcast sure didn't help, but I didn't want to wait for better light :-) )ventricosa x pectinata x ventrinermis sanguinea 'Ulu Kali' talangensis x maxima ventricosa x talangensis sanguinea
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Post by twoton on Apr 28, 2008 13:58:13 GMT -10
Now that's thorough planning and organization - you didn't miss a bit! I don't see any climbing aids on the walls, though. What do you do when your neps exceed two feet in length?
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