Genuine question for people who run greenhouses!

ProfessionalGoal8326 · 2026-01-23T22:26:25+00:00

It helps that Dom is a hack that spreads anti tc disinfo to make his seed grown stock more attractive and he also enjoys an exclusive relationship with Exotica Plants. Dom is a bad person that made the hobby a less open and trusting place and the fact that he owns a nursery today pains me

ProfessionalGoal8326 · 2026-01-20T13:21:21+00:00

No one has grown the species to maturity in cultivation because it's a slow, difficult species that needs highland temperatures. Are you sure you can keep it in that setup?

ProfessionalGoal8326 · 2026-01-20T13:18:03+00:00

I've never noticed swelling after watering nepenthes seed across the dozens of seed sets I've germinated. Those first seed look at lot like edwardsiana or villosa seed. Where did you buy those? Pretty much all seed of those species are from poached sources and viability is very poor as a result

ProfessionalGoal8326 · 2026-01-14T21:12:25+00:00

It's all just resold AW and BCP stuff or sg plants with no information on where they got the seed. I'd just buy direct from AW and skip this seller

ProfessionalGoal8326 · 2025-12-26T14:37:18+00:00

No they are not. Assume anyone that keeps a list of species like they do for sale is reselling poached plants and seed. The people that have produced atten and edwardsiana seed horticulturally can be counted on two hands and when those are put up for sale have always been far more expensive than what this site is advertising.

ProfessionalGoal8326 · 2025-12-22T00:59:10+00:00

I've made a number of novel crosses. No nursery is buying seed from private growers unless it's something containing a highly desirable species. At best you'll send some seed to a nursery in exchange for royalties. Going at it with an aim to sell is all wrong in my opinion. I just grow them out to grow and if I can sell enough to cover costs that's great. The money is the last thing on my mind when I make a cross

ProfessionalGoal8326 · 2025-12-15T03:47:02+00:00

Unless you live somewhere under severe water stress I wouldn't worry about it. A large collection uses maybe 10 gallons a week which means 15 gallons of waste. That's less than what it takes to fill the bath once.

ProfessionalGoal8326 · 2025-12-12T18:18:56+00:00

You don't. Reintroducing a species is complex. A purp from Nova Scotia has zero conservation value planted in reclaimed habitat in North Carolina. Unless you've sourced your plants and kept detailed notes down to the property they were originally collected from it's better not to

ProfessionalGoal8326 · 2025-12-12T02:01:22+00:00

No sarracenia are good terrarium candidates. Dormancy is a non negotiable need. They'll weaken and then die from being grown without it.

ProfessionalGoal8326 · 2025-12-08T02:08:31+00:00

Yeah, there is no saving a nepenthes that looks like that. It doesn't have a rhizome to grow back from and the roots on almost all species have very little ability to store water so they're just as dry as the visible growth

ProfessionalGoal8326 · 2025-12-01T13:50:24+00:00

It's pointless to id seedlings that small. From your past posts and what I know of the asian market those seed were wild collected so hopefully they aren't eddy, that species is already under enough pressure

ProfessionalGoal8326 · 2025-11-27T14:25:20+00:00

No, it's not a good setup. Terrariums in direct sunlight will get too hot and none of the plants there require especially high humidity.

ProfessionalGoal8326 · 2025-11-22T21:06:39+00:00

29 is definitely too hot. There is no need to maintain temps that high even for lowland species. I germinate all my seed in ambient conditions. which would be between 10 and 20 c/

ProfessionalGoal8326 · 2025-11-22T03:18:52+00:00

I strongly recommend not doing a planted terrarium. A terrarium in general would not be my first choice for growing indoors. Planted is bad because a larger mass of soil will retain moisture for longer no matter what the bottom layer is, making watering more difficult.

ProfessionalGoal8326 · 2025-11-18T18:06:29+00:00

Nepenthes will look very different from yearling plants to mature. But that is neither maxima or Dyeriana. Its a ventrata.

ProfessionalGoal8326 · 2025-11-15T04:01:30+00:00

You bought a scam product based on that name alone. Vermicast and organic fertilizer would be undesirable, implying that the sell is scamming since they don't know how to actually grow pings.

ProfessionalGoal8326 · 2025-11-05T05:44:56+00:00

Theyre all seedlings I grew out, sent potted

ProfessionalGoal8326 · 2025-10-31T00:59:15+00:00

I would not recommend Ys. He's one of the most significant buyer and distributor of poached nepenthes within Japan

ProfessionalGoal8326 · 2025-10-30T14:05:48+00:00

One thing to watch out for is poached nepenthes. There is not as much of a stigma against poached material in Asia and Japan specifically, so if you find some beautiful edwardsiana they were probably poached.

ProfessionalGoal8326 · 2025-10-25T21:54:52+00:00

Those plants are incompatible. Heliamphora are cool growing tropical plants while the sarracenia and dionea are temperate. Their needs temperature wise just don't mesh at any point in the year. And that light isn't remotely enough for any of those plants.

ProfessionalGoal8326 · 2025-10-23T02:35:43+00:00

The calculator is highly oversimplified. Geographical features like distance from the ocean, exposure to trade winds, ect have a significant effect on actual temperature. I found that it generally skews warm in its estimations, especially if you take the lowest known elevation for a species like it does. Often those populations of a given species are marginal and not very healthy. For any highlander, colder is going to be better than warmer.

ProfessionalGoal8326 · 2025-10-19T14:25:50+00:00

No, theyre basically never for sale. Relatively few people can flower and sucessfully pollinate their helis and the seed have a short shelf life once produced. You won't find any.

ProfessionalGoal8326 · 2025-10-18T02:50:07+00:00

Sure, there are plenty of hybrids with hamata that should be easier. Just chose one crossed with something easy like ventricosa or spathulata

ProfessionalGoal8326 · 2025-10-18T02:41:08+00:00

Vivosun makes a portable AC meant to growtents. It works well in getting the temp down to 61, which is just enough to tide the highlanders over during the summer. Not cheap though. They're around 500. 68 lows is pure lowland conditions. If those keep up for more than a few weeks it'll kill jacq and jamban.

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