to my fellow CPers
 

to all my fellow CPers, it's with a heavy heart that i'm announcing that i'm (temporary) giving up on growing CPs. my working schedule and the frequent travelling really doesn't allow me to grow them any more. my drosera and vft populations are down to zero and i only have neps and cephs left which i hope will survive my neglect.

i'll still try to pop in to the forums once in a while but i'm afraid i won't be as active as before. i'll be trying to grow some begonias, hoyas and maybe amorphos and see if they can survive my neglet. hopefully, i'll get to grow some AVs on my office table too!

but i do still hope to be able to grow droseras again in the future, but this is still, goodbye for now!

:laugh:

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Wow, so sad Hongrui! Thank you for all your help in the past and we have really enjoyed getting to "know" you here through the forum. On the bright side - Hoyas are one of the few plants that THRIVE on neglect! Please PM/e-mail me if I can keep you supplied with such plants that fit your busy schedule. I still have a number of amorphos 'staked' out to dig for you when they go dormant. And...I think I can speak for a lot of us whom you have helped when I say I'll be happy to help you re-start your CP collection when your situation changes again! And it will, once a CPer - always a CPer!
Bye for now my friend!
Shawn

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This is so sad hongrui... You had such a great collection and you grow them so well. I do hope your work would allow you to grow CPs again. Do keep in touch and drop by if you have the time.

Yaa, I second what Shawn said that we will be happy to help you re-start your CP collection when your situation change.

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How about all those beautiful neps you're growing.??don't tell me you've killed them too and i'm sorry for your work..
Don't you have anyone that can help you take care your plants?

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Its so sad. Needing to give up CPs. That is too sad.

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Hi Hongrui, how sad that you have to give up hobby because of work. Hope your "temporary" won't be long.
We still need your advice, help and experience in here, so please if you can (we hope you can), squeeze some time to login here as frequent as you can.
Take good care, don't over work!!! :smile:

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hello TS, i'm not really giving up my hobby. hehe just changing the genre of plants in my collection but i'll still try to pop in to the forums whenever i can to offer whatever help i can.

as a side note, i'll be going up to kl again in the next two weeks. =)

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no worry, Hong rui will come back in no time:1thumbup:

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sad to hear that... but dun worry i think soon you will come back of collection. cheers

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edmund & robert, thanks for the confidence in me. LOL. Or are you guys confident of my lack of will power?

actually i'm starting to see some pitchers forming again on some of my neps and perhaps you guys will see a thread started by me showing how my abandoned neps are doing.

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So hongrui how long will you be out i mean doing what you're doing?????I see you still have some neps with you i thought you threw or sold them all away already.

Will be intrested to see your neps now probally still looking as glorious as they used to be as usual.Anyway hope you can get back soon ;D

Ken

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i have no idea how long i'd be out of action. i probably can only grow droseras again when i've got a place of my own, but even then it'd still depend on my working schedule. i go outstation at least once every month currently, so.. it all depends.

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It would be a loss to the CP world if you gave up growing them. Have you thought about an automatic watering system, which would significantly reduce the amount of time you would have to attend to your plants?

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jk, i have considered that option. but due to some personal factors, i still had to let go of all my drosera and vfts.

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Hongrui,

If you grow your Sundews and Pings in a terrarium, there is very little maintenance work to be doen to upkeep them and even water them. I water my sundews only once or twice a week.

But perhaps like you said, you have some personal reasons

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hongrui, is this one of those episodes in life where you tell us a sob stroy, we plead beg, then you gallantly return ?

naw, just kidding. i know how difficult it was for you to give up CPs esp your droseras.....

thank you a million times over for your help in the past.

rgds, Tarence

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Give the guy a break Tarence. As it is I am sure it is difficult for him to give up his passion for CPs and to cope with the stress and presures of his new job profile.

It is alright to talk and discuss about your your life. Afterall this forum is much more than a place to share about the cultivation of CPs.

Hongrui, we shall plead and beg until you return. :)

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Peeps, Hongrui is still going to grow CPs...he is just taking a break due to his work committments. He is still growing plants which can be grown outdoors and watered by the rain i.e. Neps and Cephs.

He is not leaving totally but just not coming in as frequent as before. That is what we will miss. We are not losing one of the very experienced grower.:1thumbup:

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hahaha @ tarence! i'll go spin a nice sob sob story on my way up to kl next week and perhaps i'll tell it to you over coffee then *wink wink*

yep, like cindy said, i'm still keeping all my neps and cephs. while my neps are alll pitcherless and they look like weeds now, i have hope that they will pitcher again in the future.

actually my 'personal' reason is mainly because of mosquito breeding. the environment ppl seems to have my address on a blacklist somewhere because of all the water trays that i used to have. they can drop by twice a week to check on my address, probably they just wanna fine me. because of that my mother is hesitant about keeping the trays topped up and a direct result is that my droseras and vfts would suffer. now that i'm unable to care for my plants because of my work schedule, i felt that it wouldn't be fair to trouble my mum to keep the water trays full and still constantly check for larvae. i know how much of a hassle that can be.. with the number of trays that i have. so in the end, i decided to let go of them all.

on the bright side, i now have 2 empty racks to fill up and i think begonias and episcias should do pretty well... altho i still have to install a watering system somehow!

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Hi hongrui,

Glad to hear you're still keeping a number of them with you.Weird huh a nepenthes without a pitcher it will look more like a creeper than a carnivorous plant i imagine..You said ALL your neps are pitcherless!!???? That must be a sad sight not saying u're not taking care of it.Don't worry your neps and other cps will understand haha

Ken