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« Reply #80 on Mar 20, 2008, 10:15pm »
its not regular topsoil/compost. the burnt earth i'm referring to is actually soil that has been commercially oven fried/combusted and it looks like this:
its like chunks of hard solid clay. it is quite sterile as all the organic materials has been burnt off during the process of making it. i do kinda rinse/wash the chunks before using to get rid of any loose clay powder that may cause clogs. « Last Edit: Mar 20, 2008, 10:16pm by hongrui »Link to Post - Back to Top  Loggedlooking for different forms of N. ampullaria, N. rafflesiana and N. xhookeriana.
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« Reply #81 on Mar 21, 2008, 1:17am »
Hongrui,
that was the first thing i thought about burnt soil - depleted nutrients. However, from this, and this website, the experiments indicate that the nutrients had not only been preserved, but the soil had also been enriched with minerals and nutrients  (my grandma, a rubber tapper, who lives a kampung life and grow vegetables also said that burnt soil is good for growing plants due to its nutrients. ofcourse she doesnt have any science evidents to prove it  )
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« Reply #82 on Mar 21, 2008, 8:03am »
hmm.. oops! 
i can understand why a forest fire would increase the amount of nutrients in soil though, a forest fire should increase the amount of organic material available for decomposition which means more nutrients. but a forest fire does not burn the soil and dry it up to the state of hard chunks.
i think your grandmother is correct though, burnt soil is very fertile. but i still believe/think that the burnt earth/clay are sterile. in singapore, burnt soil is black and crumbly and is sold as being full of nutrients while the chunks of burnt earth (dried clay pellets, i've been corrected) are promoted as sterile but useful drainage materials. how true the claims are, i'm not sure.  « Last Edit: Mar 21, 2008, 8:05am by hongrui »Link to Post - Back to Top Loggedlooking for different forms of N. ampullaria, N. rafflesiana and N. xhookeriana.
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« Reply #83 on Mar 21, 2008, 9:21am »
I'm just wondering if chunks of broken red brick might work ?  It is baked clay after all. « Last Edit: Mar 21, 2008, 9:37am by ameliepoulain »Link to Post - Back to Top LoggedAthene's CP Growlist
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« Reply #84 on Mar 21, 2008, 9:35am »
I suppose broken red bricks could work, if you hammer them into small enough chunks. but is anything added to clay to make bricks?
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« Reply #85 on Mar 24, 2008, 7:23pm »
hongrui : your campy campunalata has grown quite a bit from the last time you posted...lovely....does every leaf result in a pitcher plse ?
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« Reply #86 on Mar 24, 2008, 9:49pm »
tarence: after changing the media, it's starting to pitcher on every leaf. it's been only 4 leaves and the 3rd pitcher is just forming.
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« Reply #87 on Mar 25, 2008, 8:15am »
Good for you. It seems to be doing better than a friend`s garden in Kuching then. His doesn`t pitcher well.
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« Reply #88 on Apr 16, 2008, 12:22pm »
N. x Gothica [EP]
another plant:
N. alata-striped x truncata [EP]
N. maxima-dark x truncata [EP] intermediate/upper
N. maxima-dark x xTM [EP] intermediate/upper. i was hoping to see more of the x TM influence in the uppers but not much so far.
N. gracilis. I know N. gracilis grows like a weed but i have a soft spot for them and i like this particular plant for its striped peristome.
N. x hookeriana (c.) [EP]
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« Reply #89 on Apr 16, 2008, 9:50pm »
WOW! DUDE!
HOW WISH MY ALATA x Truncata can grow until that size. Now mine only around 20cm ~ 25cm. Yours is WOW!
Maxima x TM? TM??? Cant wait for it to grow like Lowii type.
Oh dear.... when or where I can get truncata x TM
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« Reply #90 on Apr 16, 2008, 10:41pm »
yo jeff my alata x truncata is about the same size lahhh.. 25cm thereabouts
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« Reply #91 on May 7, 2008, 11:33am »
i was out in the garden taking another set of pics so i thought i should take some pics of my favorite plants/pitchers.
N. ampullaria
N. bicalcarata
N. x dyeriana - i have no idea if this is the real victorian cross or a remake
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N. rafflesiana - white and black and everything inbetween.
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« Reply #92 on May 7, 2008, 12:27pm »
I don't think anyone has remade dyeriana.
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« Reply #93 on May 7, 2008, 12:33pm »
Wow hongrui, you sure have an extremely huge collection of neps.
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« Reply #94 on May 7, 2008, 1:12pm »
May 7, 2008, 12:27pm, phissionkorps wrote:I don't think anyone has remade dyeriana.
i vaguely remember reading a post on pitcherplant forum that there are several clones of dyeriana but there's only one original male clone left. but i'm not too sure about this.
plantlover, your collection can be as big as mine too, just build it up slowly and soon they'll be all over.
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« Reply #95 on May 7, 2008, 2:58pm »
 Wait till I'm adult only as big as yours. Unless I can hypnotize my parents and buy many plants.hehehe
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« Reply #96 on May 7, 2008, 3:42pm »
All I heard was the EP remade it, but that was a rumor. On the photo finder it says this: "Trent Meeks says there is only a single clone remaining (female). Also, see the cultivar N. 'F. W. Moore'"
However, I've never seen a female dyeriana. Everyone's seems to be male, so if the male clone is a "fake" I don't know where it came from or what happened to the real one since no one seems to have it. Mine came from Longwood Gardens, is male, and looks like yours. Where they got it from, who knows.
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« Reply #97 on May 7, 2008, 4:20pm »
thanks for the info, phissionkorps.
i've found the old thread, here, on Dyeriana at pitcherplant forum. it seems like EP has done a remake of dyeriana. sunbelle has also remarked that "all N. Dyeriana are male, it's the only clone".
considering that my plant came from thailand, i'm inclined to think that mine is a EP remake and not the victorian cross.
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« Reply #98 on May 7, 2008, 4:42pm »
Oh ok, then there is a mix up on the photofinder site, and it should be changed to all of them are male.
Quote:All I heard was the EP remade it, but that was a rumor.
. They never remade it.
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« Reply #99 on May 7, 2008, 6:52pm »
they never remade it? yay then mine should be the original and i won't need to go source for another!
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