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You make me so jealous! I wish I had them!!!

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Congratulations Ifurita! Great looking collection. That R. dentata has tweaked my interest...I'm not familiar with it, but boy its got a beautiful leaf form!

So how many years ago was it when you started getting infected?

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wow! your collection is mighty articulate!

love the ceph and the campanulata hybrid!:2thumbup:

where did you get ur heliamphora and snake pitcher plant?

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Simply amazing that you have all the genera of CPs. Hope you could shed some light on how to grow the more rare ones so that we can learn.

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Congratulations on a complete collection!!

I have one comment the picture of P. sp. "Tolantonga" has a Capensis trying to hog the picture, and the Ping just looked so nice and cute, maybe you can try taking another photo of it solo? :) hehehe, it really looks so cute. Well don't get me wrong your Capensis looks in great shape as well, did it invade your Ping pot? Or was it intentional?

TTFN
Arvin

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Thanks for the encouraging comments everyone!!

Hi shawnintland,
Yup, I like the R. dentata too! Its quite fuss free too, but man did it take a long time for the seed to germinate(I grew this one from seed). I've liked CPs for a long time, but only really started growing then around 3-4 years ago when I had to do some research on a local nep population during my uni days.

Hi malowie,
They were obtained from two different european nurseries via mass orders. They were actually fairly cheap, the Darlingtonia for example cost me about 20SGD after(not before) adding in the shipping and cert costs, which is a lot cheaper than quite a good number of my neps and other stuff.

Hi David,
I'm no expert, but sure if anyone here needs any info on how to grow any of these, I can share what works for me. What are you all interested in?

Hi Arvin,
Sure, I'll go charge my digicam batts and try and get in a pic of just the ping alone. The capensis just happened to pop up and since it wasn't bothering the ping, I just left it there. lol. For the time being, here's a random pic taken of one of my plants by a friend of mine who has a better camera and is much, much more skilled than I in using it:

http://www.hexazona.com/hwchoy/galle...0119_6184_.jpg

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Sometime, Im wonder whether you all own a CP nursery!!!!!! :crying:

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Thanks for sharing ur collection.Nice to see some rare stuff..

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At the moment I am interested to learn more about cultivating the following well in our climate:

- Heliamphora
- Aldrovanda
- D. prolifera
- D. falconeri
- D. californica
- Cephalotus

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Originally Posted by David (Post 4152)

At the moment I am interested to learn more about cultivating the following well in our climate:

- Heliamphora
- Aldrovanda
- D. prolifera
- D. falconeri
- D. californica
- Cephalotus

Okay. Perhaps the long version can be given in a thread more dedicated to each specific plant, then other growers can share their methods too?

Here's the short version:
- Heliamphora
Seems to require night cooling and relatively humid conditions. Less cranky when mature, but also starts requiring more light. Not an easy plant, this one will have to stay in my room for good.

- Aldrovanda
Getting a tropical strain is 75% of the battle. Those can grow outdoors here with no problems, just treat as an aquatic Utric and it'll be quite happy. With sun, the red strains will turn completely red.

- D. prolifera
Seems to prefer humid, shady conditions. Cooling seems to help a new plant settle in, but is unessential in an established plant. Is fine without any direct sun at all, will tolerate conditions too shady for most other Drosera.

- D. falconeri
New plants can be initially cranky and tricky to handle. However, an established plant can grow outdoors here with no problems. It prefers as much sun as you can give it and does much better in humid conditions. Not great for a windy area.

- D. californica
Am currently experimenting on this one. Does not seem as cranky as its supposed to be, so currently plannin to grow it outdoors...we'll see how that turns out.

- Cephalotus
Can grow outdoors, though it does appreciate night cooling. Control watering if grown outdoors, media should be just moist. Wet, soggy media plus heat tends to cause the plant to either rot for go cranky.

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Hi

Hahahahaha i will almost never reach the list u have Ifurita now i only have 3 generas of CP's and almost all the common ones

Nepenthes
Dionaea Muscipula
Sarrcenia

Ken