End of greenhouse season
 

I've posted this already in other forums. I hope it's ok to post it here again because I like this forum very much.


Weather gets frosty here and my plants had to leave the greenhouse this weekend. Again for months no sitting in the sunflooded greenhouse and enjoying the plants while having a cup of beer. :sad:


I was a bit afraid that I won't get all the plants back in the basement because some of them had some good grow this summer in the greenhouse. Having them seperated I took the chance for some photos of a few of them.

One of my very few newbies this year: N. burbidgeae x edwardsiana (Malesiana tropics)

http://www.3ddart.com/neps/burb_eddie01.jpg


Just repotted in spring: N. thorelii (d) x truncata (Exoticaplants)

http://www.3ddart.com/neps/thorelii_x_truncata02.jpg


N. lowii x campanulata (Exoticaplants)

http://www.3ddart.com/neps/lowii_camp05.jpg

http://www.3ddart.com/neps/lowii_camp06.jpg

pitcher before with lots of exudate. Insects got really attracted by this and the pitcher was good filled
http://www.3ddart.com/neps/lowii_camp07.jpg


the often discussed N. eymae (Wistuba). I really like it what ever it is.

http://www.3ddart.com/neps/eymae03.jpg

http://www.3ddart.com/neps/eymae04.jpg


N. sibuyanensis x xTrusmadiensis (Exoticaplants). The basals started developing in december 2009.

http://www.3ddart.com/neps/sib_tm02.jpg


N. mira x lowii (Christian Klein)

http://www.3ddart.com/neps/mira_lowii06.jpg

http://www.3ddart.com/neps/mira_lowii07.jpg


after 6 years waiting the first flower (male) for my N. ventricosa x xiphioides (Wistuba)

http://www.3ddart.com/neps/vent_xiph04.jpg

in the basement already totally nuts my N. spathulata with over 20 flower stalks:

http://www.3ddart.com/neps/spath_flower_01.jpg

http://www.3ddart.com/neps/spath_flower_02.jpg


Goodbye old trusty friend :crying:

http://www.3ddart.com/neps/spider.jpg

Re: End of greenhouse season
 

Wow nice pic especially the pic that show lots of exudate in the pitcher :1thumbup: Keep up with the good work !!!

Re: End of greenhouse season
 

Nice pics, thanks for sharing :1thumbup:

Wish your plants will continue to grow well... :smile:

Re: End of greenhouse season
 

really nice plants.
Having transfered to the basement and with the changed in environment i like to know what is the response of N.spathulata's flowers once they ripe ie what is rate of germination of seeds per pod. This will take time and will only be able to evaluate once they ripe, sow and germinate.

Re: End of greenhouse season
 

Many thanks for your comments!

The amount of exudate made me really wonder. No pitcher before had so much exudate and also the newest pitcher doesn't show much of it yet.

I transfered the spathulata already to the basement after I noticed the first flower. So it's already nearly 3 months back. It'll be interesting nevertheless because of the many flowers. The pods of the flower stalk with 8 months old truncata pollen are already increasing size very much. If pollination wasn't successfull the pods didn't developed on this plant. So I guess that this old pollen was still viable.
Germination of the spathulata's seeds always took 3 months. So this will be quite a long time for seeing how the plant took the transferring and the lots of flower stalks.

Re: End of greenhouse season
 

that's amazing, awsome photography and beautiful nepenthes:1thumbup: