n. ampullaria
 

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okay.. so this is it. one part of it is damaged cuz my seramas keep pecking on it!

im just wondering only during certain times of the year this species forms basal rosettes.. and i think that ampullaria looks pretty elegant with large pitchers forming from basal rosettes..

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Nice plant with lots of basels. However, I noticed the speckle on the picthers are a little faded. Does the pitchers get alot of sunlight? An advise from an experience grower to me... Try to shade the pitchers but give lots of sunlight to the leaves. The colours on the pitchers will become more vibrant and dark.

Off topic: Wow! You're into seramas. Beautiful birds. Was thinking of getting one as a pet once before but decided not too since I live in an apartment.

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Very nice plant. Love the clump of basals formed. How tall/long is the main stem?
I think N.amp formed basal all year round, what I mean all year round is the new basals keep on producing pitchers and the old ones dry off.
I wonder how long will the vine grow until it flower, I have one amp that grew taller then me :2thumbup:, about 6 feet tall, but still no sign of flowering.:confused::bored:

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i have never had an ampullaria that flowered for me. the only flowers i had was n. gracilis, northiana, rafflesiana, and one more unidentified species.. haha.. somehow i find ampullaria unique in the sense that theyre pitcher lids are 'open' to get plant matter in the wild. how i wihs i had pitchers that reach 15 cm like those in the wild haha.

your old ampullaria basals dry off? my old basals continue to grow and grow and grow until about like 12++ inches? i snip them off when they reach that height. it doesnt look nice to me.

waaaaaaa. mor ethan 6 feet tall? you put under partial shade or more on the direct sunlight side?

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hey david. thanks... yeah. its getting quite a lot of sunshine.. ill shift the location then.. thanks for the tip =)

yeah.. im into seramas.. more of kapan actually. theyre nice. ive lost a few to the musang in my area. (you wont believe it) as i stay near bukit Gasing..

yeah.. seramas need space. they like to peck on grass, eat crickets too. haha.. but the bad part is the poop lah.. its stinks.

last year i lost a few of my CPs to a pair of turkeys. but i sold them off a long way back.. they poop like 20-30 times a day, and the poop size is like the size of a cats! seramas are not so bad. the turkeys are worst peckers..

anyway, youll be selling VFTs in the calravy carnival? how much and is it the YG one?


thanks

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:2thumbup: You misunderstood me, the old pitchers formed on the basal dry off, but the new pitchers keep forming on the media surface to replace the old ones.

I put the plant beside my house, getting only 1 to 2 hours of noon sun, the rest of the day is bright. The taller part of the stem is getting more direct sun. I'll try to mimic the environment in the wild to induce it to flower. :smile:

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I have no amps but the closest to it is N hookeriana for me.My hookeriana has a few basals covering the whole top of the pot but the main plant pitchers dont last long or may not even pitcher at all dunno why,very moody plants. Maybe its like amp and needs more shaded conditions but it still seems healthy since it produces a lot of basal pitchers.I have no pets except fishes so my neps are safe from any other animals unless some birds or insect fly in my balcony and destroy them.But normally if insects come they kinda die and once awhile i check in the pitchers they scare me suddenly theres a dead bee or something.

Ken

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now...

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Ken,as i told you before xHookeriana likes full sun.All my Hooks are growns in full sun and they produce monster pitchers.Just leave them at one spot and they will recover and grow well for you.

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Hi Ali

Well yeah i've read some about it and i know it does like a lot of sunlight....Now mine is in partial shade and somehow only pitchers for me there......

Ken

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That's strange...good if it works for you.

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Hey, malowie, nice amp you got over there.:two thumbs up:

Ali, even hookers in some shade produce pitchers, although not very big. However, they grow annoyingly fast in partial shade.

Cheers

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I got 2 hookerianas that I purposely grown on 2 different spots to experiment. 1 under 50% shade cloth and 1 under a tree without much direct sunlight. Both grew and pitcher fine with 2 noticeble difference, the one under shade cloth grew faster and have smaller leaves. The one under the tree grew 1 pitcher/leaf slower and have bigger leaves. Pitcher size for both are almost the same.

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Yeah. My balcony is shielded from any direct sunlight completely, unless in the late evening where some light hits the balcony. My hookers had leaves of 5-6 inches long when I got it from Hee Nursery. The first leaf it produced for me was 7 inches long! Now the longest leaf is about 8 inches long. Only one pitcher was made during the whole time my hooker was with me, but now more pitchers are starting to develope slowly and inflate.

Cheers

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Hey Ed you got your hookeriana from Hee nursery????? Yours is green speckled type right?? Well mine is some purpurlish with green spots...I always see only this 2 forms around never more than that.So far now my hookeriana has 1 pitcher and 1 inflating from the mother plant and a million pitchers from the uncountable basal shoots (exagerating).Mine doesn't seem to have much space between each leaf..Making it somehow compact..Or maybe its just not quite a fast grower for me.Its one of my oldest plant but its only 20 cm tall.... When i got it it probally is around 10cm? I think i got it at the beggining of this year.

Ken

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Your plant looks great :laugh: but the pitchers of your plant looks a bit faded so you can put it in partial sunlight:2thumbup:.

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Mine is like this: LINK

I believe this is MT clone.

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Hi Ali

Yeah mine is like that too......

Ken

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Mine is something like that, but I bought the one that was small, kenneth. Only one pitcher and no vines at all.

Cheers

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Mine looks like that too.

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Mine is a short stem full of basals that i have a little difficulty watering it without the basal leaves blocking the water from going into the soil. Some of the basals has elongated pitchers which look like kuchingensis haha.

Ken