basement jungle
 

my room for recreation in our basement:

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

spathulata pods

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

thorelii x tm pods

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

thorelii x tm upper

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

lowland seedlings in the heated basement terrarium

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

from seed grown (viking x ampullaria) x thorelii

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

cheers
Boris

Re: basement jungle
 

Wow, that's really impressive. That is a great basement you have there.

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Wow sooo many plants.............I love the seed grown hybrid.....And also it seems like you have quite a number of matured plants..

Ken

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Wow! That's a lot of plants. I can see you use every inch of space you have there. Can I know what type of lighting you are using? Thanks.

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A big thanks for all your nice comments :shy:

The basement room is 3m x 2m. There is a 400 W High Pressure Sodium and additional 2 x 30 W fluorescent tubes. The terrarium is 1m x 1m. There I use a 150 W Ceramic Compact Metal Halide CDM-T.

Talking about effective use of space. Here is my wall of maxima seedlings

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

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Hey Boris, Great plan on that wall of seedlings! I love it! Thanks for a great example, I've got so many seedlings that all spaces in my greenhouses are full already! This could open up some table space. I already hang baskets but hadn't thought of using the wall spaces this effectively!
~Shawn
http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/j...essed_0088.jpg

http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/j...essed_0091.jpg

http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/j...essed_0086.jpg

http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/j...essed_0099.jpg

:biggrin:

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wow ... great greenhouse you've got there. That's a jungle. I wish I could grow my neps outside all the year but our winters aren't suitable even for the most ultra-highlanders. That would be a bit more friendly for the electricity bill. But nevertheless I already plan a big lowland terrarium for our livingroom. My wife already said yes because she wants to see me more often upstairs ;)
Also I'll get another greenhouse which I'll put in another basement room. So my seedlings will get some more space to get bigger.
Drilling the holes and preparing the wires for your many seedling pots will keep you busy for a while *biggrin2*

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Hi Boris, Believe me - whatever you saved on the electric bill you'd make up for in pots, media and water!

That's a good plan you worked out with the wife, I've seen some photos of amazing in-house terrariums on the web.

Regarding drilling the holes and preping the wires - Hmmm maybe I could put up a velcro wall and glue little squares to the back of the pots!:unsure:

By the way, in your first photo there's a tall grass-like plant (more onion-like). Any idea what it is? I have them coming up in some of my older neps baskets too and have no idea as they must have been in the media when I bought the plants a loooong time ago. I like them as a contrast to the nep form.

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it's quite funny what there is suddenly poppin out of the substrate. The newest plant I've got is some sort of mimosa. I guess it isn't mimosa pudica but it's also folding back its leaves if it get touched.
I think that grass like plant is some juncus species. Meanwhile I've got a lot of them and I also like them. The biggest in the greenhouse are over 1 m tall. Some nepenthes tendrils also used them as climbing aid.

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Here's the grass-like one in a ventrata basket. This is a few weeks ago and it's already way outgrown the Nep! I hadn't considered them getting 1 meter tall though!
http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/j...p_IMG_1984.jpg