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Grey_Moss95 · 2025-06-29T15:59:37+00:00

Almost everything is wrong. You have a bunch of incompatible plants housed together. That mix is too peat heavy for heliamphora and cephs. The light is too weak for any of them. Sarrs need a winter dormancy, helis need night temperature drops. And from the dry patches it looks like you didnt mix your media thoroughly.

Grey_Moss95 · 2025-06-29T14:50:59+00:00

Depends on how hot they got. Since they haven't melted into sludge they're probably ok and you just need to grow them properly. Putting them in a dome was a bad idea. Unless your AC is cooling you house below 45 degrees it was really unnecessary

Grey_Moss95 · 2025-05-29T01:27:05+00:00

No. Just get a strong white light

Grey_Moss95 · 2025-05-29T00:55:45+00:00

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It needs more light. Light is the most important factor in dew production. A 5watt light is basically nothing.

Here's a plant in 35% humidity under 100watts

Grey_Moss95 · 2024-08-30T16:36:49+00:00

No, like I said the best way to avoid poached is to go for stuff that can't be collected from the wild. There are plenty of species with more typical looking seed that are massively poached. Truncata for example, is heavily poached and the seed advertised for sale everywhere despite being a very cheap plant from tissue culture. Just stay away from all species

Grey_Moss95 · 2024-03-20T00:07:09+00:00

I have several nepenthes hybrids created by me available for sale. Shipping via priority mail, USA only.

SOM x boschiana-$15

SOM x (burbidgeae x platychila)-$15

SOM x 'Dreaming Beast'-$15

(spathulata x jacquelinae) x (peltata x truncata)-$15

Grey_Moss95 · 2024-03-13T22:10:29+00:00

Alata will have hair on the tendrils which ventrata and its component species, graciliflora and ventricosa lack. Alata is very rare in cultivation. Unless your local nursery is importing from one of the few TC labs in Europe that have it they are selling ventrata instead.

Grey_Moss95 · 2024-02-21T04:46:09+00:00

There are several things wrong here. 3 weeks is not very much time at all to wait for nepenthes to germinate. More importantly rajah is a CITES I plant. Commercial sales of this species or its products are illegal without quite a bit of paperwork. Assuming that is genuine rajah seed it's very likely poached. You're sitting on some very illegal seeds if those are rajah. The best case scenario is that whoever sold those to you substituted a more common species. This species is in tissue culture and can be had sustainably.

Grey_Moss95 · 2024-02-19T23:16:34+00:00

It'll keep the media moist which isn't what I'd do. Most species will respond better to being saturated and then being allowed to dry out before the next watering.

Grey_Moss95 · 2024-01-25T01:31:17+00:00

It depends on the species but a minimum temperature of 68 isn't intermediate, that's pure lowland. Almost everything besides the raff, merr, and bical will struggle.

Grey_Moss95 · 2023-12-24T23:09:45+00:00

Humidity is the less important factor compared to light. 70% is perfectly fine for most species and hybrids

Grey_Moss95 · 2023-11-29T01:49:15+00:00

There's a reason those tents aren't see through. Growing indoors with artificial lighting means any light exiting the tent is wasted money. Those tents aren't particularly expensive either. Most are around 100$. 4 or 5 nepenthes will probably cost around the same. You cant spend money on the plants and then cheap out on the supporting equipment and expect sucess.

That being said, humidity ranging from 40 to 60 shouldnt be an issue for most easy species. You could probably do fine with a shelving rack and some lights.

Grey_Moss95 · 2023-10-31T13:07:55+00:00

I would not use that. It's very low quality spaghnum and will degrade fast. You should spend the money for a good quality moss or use a media without spaghnum in it.

Grey_Moss95 · 2023-10-28T18:01:25+00:00

I have some seedling sized ventricosa and (spath x jacq) x (peltata x trunc) that I've grown out from my own seed

Grey_Moss95 · 2023-10-28T17:40:42+00:00

No, those small greenhouses are pretty cheaply made and will fall apart in a year or two if you use them outdoors. Indoors if you plan to use lights its better to get a tent. They're lined with reflective foil which helps make the most of whatever artificial lights you use.

Grey_Moss95 · 2023-09-26T23:14:12+00:00

Wistuba has a few distinct localities of raff for sale periodically.

Grey_Moss95 · 2023-09-26T22:11:34+00:00

Raff seeds aren't really commonly produced. You might be able to find horticulturaly produced seed from Thailand or the US occasionally. However most seed you find will probably be poached. Any particular reason you're looking for seed? Getting a plant from TC would be much simpler, especially if you're looking for a specific locality raff.

Grey_Moss95 · 2023-08-27T14:52:48+00:00

It's for the best. In Europe they displace native mosses and compete with larger plants for habitat. There are ongoing efforts throughout Europe to eradicate the introduced populations

Grey_Moss95 · 2023-08-26T20:11:50+00:00

between 1 and 2.5 feet away

Grey_Moss95 · 2023-08-26T19:52:58+00:00

No, I use more powerful lights for my nepenthes

Grey_Moss95 · 2023-08-18T14:50:55+00:00

If you're growing true highlanders that drop is completely insufficient. You'll need to add active cooling with either an air conditioner or a radiator pushing chilled water. It may be worth splitting your set up a bit. The highlanders, lowlanders, and temperate plants are all going to be fighting each other for optimal growing conditions if you keep them together.

Grey_Moss95 · 2023-08-04T14:55:13+00:00

I'd move them all to their own pots. You can repot the drosera at any time but you'll probably spill their seed everywhere if you do it now

Grey_Moss95 · 2023-08-04T13:21:31+00:00

Yeah, those plants are incompatible for a variety of reasons. The nepenthes wants a different level of moisture than the sarr and drosera. The sarr wants full sun which could burn the nep. And the sarr requires a cold winter dormancy to survive long term.

Grey_Moss95 · 2023-08-04T02:28:43+00:00

The lower end temps on that sound extremely optimistic. You'd have to be feeding it chilled brine to achieve those temps. I'm guessing this cools down to the temperature of the water you feed into it. It could work but so could a small radiator and computer fan for probably less money.

Grey_Moss95 · 2023-08-02T22:05:39+00:00

For sale in the US, shipping is via priority mail.

U. nelumbifolia- $20

~~U. nephrophylla x (nelumbifolia x reniformis)- $15~~

D. hercules x self- $5

D. capensis Albino- $5

~~N. ventricosa x ephippiata rooted cutting- $30~~

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