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Post by mikuláš on Nov 3, 2010 9:54:51 GMT -10
Congrats, morbus! I can't wait to see how those vines have engulfed your house/yard in a few years from now One minor note: isn't Billy Bailey ventricosa x singalana, not the reverse? I believe BE made the cross singalana x ventricosa as well, but it does not bear any other name.
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Post by mikuláš on Oct 18, 2010 5:48:47 GMT -10
@ Nol:
Do you have a few links to some of these grow logs handy? I'm assuming you're only talking about the low-end products here that require such careful adjustment/placing.
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Post by mikuláš on Oct 18, 2010 4:21:33 GMT -10
Darn. I'll have to keep holding out hope then for the campanulata hybrid with short internodes throughout its life cycle (apart from Menehune, of course).
Good to see the campanulata influence re-emerging, nonetheless.
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Post by mikuláš on Oct 18, 2010 4:18:15 GMT -10
marka: Could you tell us what plants you used, how far you kept the lights away from the tops of the plants, if you used reflectors, etc.? Or maybe even post some comparison shots? If you had good results with the el-cheapo versions, I may try them after all....
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Post by mikuláš on Oct 16, 2010 5:17:28 GMT -10
Very nice, Sam. But if that's an upper, where's the vine? Has campanulata succeeded in taming the height of rokko?
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Post by mikuláš on Oct 7, 2010 7:19:14 GMT -10
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Post by mikuláš on Oct 5, 2010 3:47:33 GMT -10
Nol, Do keep us updated on how your lights work out. I understand why you chose them (maximum PAR/PUR), but how did you determine that these bulbs provide the most PAR/PUR?
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Post by mikuláš on Oct 4, 2010 11:05:57 GMT -10
Nol, This is some interesting info re:indoor plant lighting. Perhaps you could share how you've translated this into practice with your own plants? That is, it looks like you use specialized lighting in your second photo?
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Post by mikuláš on Sept 29, 2010 6:41:30 GMT -10
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Post by mikuláš on Sept 29, 2010 4:17:30 GMT -10
Regarding LEDs, the one manufacturer that I've found who openly advertises his wavelengths is HydroGrowLED ( www.hydrogrowled.com). Allegedly many other manufacturers are too far away from the necessary wavelengths to produce good results -- you can read a long discussion about these on a marijuana-growers forum: www.420magazine.com/forums/grow-supply-product-reviews/88642-led-grow-light-review.html Price has certainly kept me away from experimenting with them. With regards to HO T5s, just a word of caution: They produce A LOT of heat (learned that the hard way). I lit an 18" W x 48" L enclosure with just one dual-bulb HO T5 fixture and the coloring on my plants was great -- actually, it seemed a bit much for my Miranda, which makes pitchers that look less washed-out now that it's in shadier spot outside. I used 1 grow bulb (6400K) and one bloom bulb (3000K) with good results -- lots of red-tinted leaves as well.
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LHNN204
Sept 27, 2010 11:32:08 GMT -10
Post by mikuláš on Sept 27, 2010 11:32:08 GMT -10
I'm always amazed at how dominant the gracilis genes are with respect to pitcher & peristome shape. The only gracilis hybrid I've ever seen that has more than the thin-rim peristome is a purported gracilis x veitchii: www.plantarara.com/carnivoren_galerie/nepenthes/nepenthes.htmI can see a little of the bicalcarata in Shawn's cross, but much less of the truncata in Sam's.
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Sept 26, 2010 12:05:54 GMT -10
Post by mikuláš on Sept 26, 2010 12:05:54 GMT -10
Congratulations, Sam! This is exciting news indeed. One can only imagine the giants that these lovely ladies may give rise to!
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Post by mikuláš on Sept 25, 2010 4:04:02 GMT -10
See, that's what happens when you don't repot in time #2 reminds me of one of the Pulelehuas.
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Post by mikuláš on Sept 21, 2010 4:51:01 GMT -10
It's peculiar that the albomarginata hybrid has dark leaves but light pitchers -- we usually expect the pitchers to carry darker pigmentation than the leaves. It will be interesting to see if that pattern continues in its offspring. From the glance of a Buttons pitcher in one of the photos, it seems that its leaves are also darker than the albeit young pitchers. I'll be very curious to see how Buttons turns out -- with the amount of "thorelii" in it plus maxima, will a dark-leaved, rokko-like plant be the result? Or will mirabilis yet again dominate? No doubt there will be some variability in this grex.
Thinking more generally, it's interesting how the leaves of all these hybrid plants are darker than any of their parents -- it looks like the genes for dark pigmentation spread from the pitcher to the rest of the leaf in the hybridization process.
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Post by mikuláš on Sept 3, 2010 5:00:35 GMT -10
Ah, the magical, marvelous fences of LHNN....It's almost like an ad for a Nepenthes grower's favorite vacation spot
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