My Little Christmas Tree
 

Here's is a very upright ramispina plant. With pitcher at the tip of each leaf, it does resemble a small christmas tree with trimmings to the branches.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v5...pina_plant.jpg

One thing about ramispina is that their pitchers are very long lasting. The still living pitcher at the bottom has been with me since February. While those pitchers at its side only dried up in September, had been around since January. So those new pitchers should still be around for the Chinese New Year.

Here's a close-up of a new ramispina pitcher alongside a very red tobaica. This is the largest tobaica so far, with 12cm height and a girth of 12 cm around the bottom.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v5..._ramispina.jpg

Ah, one of my favourite is this compact sanguinea. It was featured in my father's day article. Unlike the ramispina it remains short and compact. With the few sanguineas and ramispinas that I own, it looks like ramispina are more of a vining plant than sanguinea.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v5...9snaguinea.jpg

Another plant with long lasting pitchers is adrianii. This plant was also featured in my father's day article. Unlike the sanguinea, the pitchers are still around since May/June. It flowered a few months ago and has two basals with pitchers.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v5...55adrianii.jpg

This sibuyanensis was a sickly plant at the beginning this year when it was grown under low land condition. I got it in December 2006. Now after nine months living in air-cond environment, it has strong healthy leaves with three pitchers - two hiding in the mosses.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v5...buyanensis.jpg

This boschiana also has very big and healthy leaves but the largest pitcher to date is only 13cm tall.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v5...2boschiana.jpg

Ah! the best looking pitcher must be spectablis. I really like the banded raised peristome. The pitchers that came with the plant were more stunning. The bands and spots were really dark, but dried up soon after I took the big plant out of the bag. I had Fauzi ordered for me from BE in March. It has taken the plant 6 months to pitcher again.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v5...spectablis.jpg

Choong

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Nice pics Chong and welcome back! ;)

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Hi

Very nice pictures of pitchers

Ken

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Yep, same as all the others say, "Great looking plants, Choong"! I like the 'teeth' on the spectablis and the coloration on the compact sanguinea, and the dark pitchers with light green interiors on the ramispina. Hmmm, is there anything I don't like?

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Choong, each time to you post an update on your highlanders, they seem to look better and better. Congrats!

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Great plants, Choong.

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Thanks guys for the compliments. To get the plants in shape you have to endure sleeping in a room that can go down to as low as 15°C and paying high energy bills.

Choong

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Nice neps choong! Love the spectabilis. So, you keep all your HL neps in air cond room?

Thanks!

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No wonderlah healthy and big pitchers.I doubt we can grow them like that in LL conditions.;)

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Hi Choong

You on the air cond for how long???The whole night???Until you wake up?The bills must be quite high to grow them like that

Ken

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Gotta love those HL neps, nice growing Choong !! :1thumbup:

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Those are really nice plants, I also really like the spectabilis with it's great coloration. Just one question though, HL plants are used to fluctuations in humidity with the humidity being the highest at night with cool weather. Doesn't AC lower the humidity in the room? In my experience, AC drastically lowers humidity. I wanted to know what your situation is as I would love to able to grow HL plants simply by air conditioning a room hehe. Take care, good growing. Later!

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Great pics! Those are some extremely healthy neps you have. -You're making me jealous. :tongue:


Just a thought- Wouldn't specabilis x ramispina be a great cross?

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You are right Pananep, air-cond does strip off water vapor.

Here's my set-up. I keep my HL plants on a four tier metal/chrome display stand. But I added wheels to the stand to allow me to move the plants to face the morning sun and wheel back to my bedroom at night. I mist the plants every morning before I go to work. In addition, I replace water to a Samsung humidifier located at the bottom of the stand in the morning and at night. The plants closed to the humidifier are really saturated. Those at the top level are around 70% RH.

Because of the routine, I dreaded taking holidays!!!!!

Choong