Some Pics Of Cephs To Share

[Cindy]

Nothing spectacular but just wanted to show the rate of growth over 4 months.

November 2008
I imported some Cephs with one-inch rhizomes for sale. Here is one example in a thumbpot.

March 2008
I kept several plants in the thumbpots for myself. These now need to be further repotted into 5" pots from their 3" pots.

Plant 1


Roots are appearing from the base of the 3" pots.


The plants are forming adult pithers.


Plant 2




Plant 3

[Cindy]

This cutting had a rhizome about 1.5" long last November.


How it looks like now. The largest pitcher is 4cm (>1.5") tall.


A pic of a potential prey.

[plantlover]

Wow!! Nice cephs!! BTW whats the best treatment to revive dead cephs. My ceph is producing an offshoot from its root after getting murdered by some stupid mealybugs. I want that offshoot to stay alive.

[TS]

Beautiful plants! How you managed to grow them so big, Cindy? Did you grow them outdoor or in aircond room?

[Delwin]

[kentosaurs]

Wah Cindy So beautiful......And soo huge......Its amazing..Seems like they grow preety vigorously for you....

Ken

[Cindy]

Aaron,
It depends on how your media is like. Try not to keep it too wet because the remaining rhizome tends to rot off soon after the application of insecticide.

TS,
The plants (1-3) are under T5 lights. The one with all large pitchers are at my balcony which faces North-west. From November till now, there is only bright but indirect sunlight. That is also the reason why the pitchers are not showing very much colour. Temperature ranges from 25C to 34C. Airconditioning will easily bring this particular clone's pitchers to at least 2".

[nickjamie]

hey cindy, how do you keep the live sphagnum moss so alive and vigorous? its grows so well and produces 'branch' like structures.. mine doesnt do that..

[Cindy]

nickjamie,

LSM can be grown easily under full sun in marsh/wet conditions. The ones you see in the photo is grown at the balcony in a covered pot. I also have them growing in covered disposble plastic containers.

[TS]

Cindy, so, it's still the temperature doing the trick
After tried growing mine under full sun for a year with very slow in growth, I decided to changed it's growing condition (after getting some advice from you).
I can't put it in my room with aircond as my window don't get good sun light. Now I put it in my garden for 2 to 3 hours morning sun, bright for the rest of the day, the biggest pitchers recorded 1 cm in length. The temperature is 24-25°C average at night. I'll see how big the pitcher will go.
Jamie, live sphagnum moss grow well under direct sun if provided wet / humid condition. Try growing it with long fibre sphagnum in an undrained container (without any holes at the bottom), but drill a hole or two at the side (about 2/3 the height of the container from the bottom) to allow access water to flow out, so the live sphagnum moss on top will be always just d-a-m-p. Mine growing very well with this method, I have two pots growing vigorously in higher pots (with holes at the bottom), but I water twice a day. Don't place your pot in very windy spot, the moss will dry very quickly, especially under full sun.