End of greenhouse season

[Boris]

I've posted this already in other forums. I hope it's ok to post it here again because I like this forum very much.


Weather gets frosty here and my plants had to leave the greenhouse this weekend. Again for months no sitting in the sunflooded greenhouse and enjoying the plants while having a cup of beer.


I was a bit afraid that I won't get all the plants back in the basement because some of them had some good grow this summer in the greenhouse. Having them seperated I took the chance for some photos of a few of them.

One of my very few newbies this year: N. burbidgeae x edwardsiana (Malesiana tropics)




Just repotted in spring: N. thorelii (d) x truncata (Exoticaplants)




N. lowii x campanulata (Exoticaplants)





pitcher before with lots of exudate. Insects got really attracted by this and the pitcher was good filled



the often discussed N. eymae (Wistuba). I really like it what ever it is.






N. sibuyanensis x xTrusmadiensis (Exoticaplants). The basals started developing in december 2009.




N. mira x lowii (Christian Klein)






after 6 years waiting the first flower (male) for my N. ventricosa x xiphioides (Wistuba)



in the basement already totally nuts my N. spathulata with over 20 flower stalks:






Goodbye old trusty friend

[jimmy0123]

Wow nice pic especially the pic that show lots of exudate in the pitcher Keep up with the good work !!!

[NepNut]

Nice pics, thanks for sharing

Wish your plants will continue to grow well...

[Robert]

really nice plants.
Having transfered to the basement and with the changed in environment i like to know what is the response of N.spathulata's flowers once they ripe ie what is rate of germination of seeds per pod. This will take time and will only be able to evaluate once they ripe, sow and germinate.

[Boris]

Many thanks for your comments!

Originally Posted by jimmy0123

Wow nice pic especially the pic that show lots of exudate in the pitcher

The amount of exudate made me really wonder. No pitcher before had so much exudate and also the newest pitcher doesn't show much of it yet.

Originally Posted by Robert

Having transfered to the basement and with the changed in environment i like to know what is the response of N.spathulata's flowers once they ripe ie what is rate of germination of seeds per pod. This will take time and will only be able to evaluate once they ripe, sow and germinate.

I transfered the spathulata already to the basement after I noticed the first flower. So it's already nearly 3 months back. It'll be interesting nevertheless because of the many flowers. The pods of the flower stalk with 8 months old truncata pollen are already increasing size very much. If pollination wasn't successfull the pods didn't developed on this plant. So I guess that this old pollen was still viable.
Germination of the spathulata's seeds always took 3 months. So this will be quite a long time for seeing how the plant took the transferring and the lots of flower stalks.

[sooxiwei]

that's amazing, awsome photography and beautiful nepenthes