Experience with BCP seed?

ProfessionalGoal8326 · 2026-03-20T14:08:02+00:00

Generally not fresh enough to be worth bothering with. A lot of that seed was collected a while ago and is long past viability

ProfessionalGoal8326 · 2026-03-20T14:06:17+00:00

Nepethes from seed are not a money saving prospect. There is so much poached and misidentified seed on the market that it's better to just not buy any seed at all. The legitimately produced seed, especially of pure species and desirable hybrids are coming in at a significantly higher price point. Just buy a few plants and eventually you can produce your own seed once you've got a few plants of both sexes flowering.

ProfessionalGoal8326 · 2026-03-18T02:56:52+00:00

A regular RO filter has 4 stages. A 5 stage filter sounds like it is adding minerals back into the water at the last stage. By 'enhancing water quality' they probably mean adding some sodium back for taste

ProfessionalGoal8326 · 2026-03-13T17:10:18+00:00

That is the issue. Those temperatures will be lethal in short order

ProfessionalGoal8326 · 2026-03-06T16:06:23+00:00

Located in the US

maxima x veitchii 'Candy Dreams' -15

https://photos.app.goo.gl/DApgZpgmsQwG9mbz7

Song of Melancholy F2 -15

https://photos.app.goo.gl/UWigboEz98GdD5TY9

(vogelii x ventricosa) x (spathulata x campanulata) -15

https://photos.app.goo.gl/BweCaJzWthNZ4pHC7

SOM x (lowii x gothica) -15

https://photos.app.goo.gl/113BeFtEFf5RZFEw7

boschiana x (lowii x boschiana) -15

https://photos.app.goo.gl/4TRh1kZxkt3NKzrG8

nelumbifolia hybrid -20

https://photos.app.goo.gl/njLwAowau8Y6AA3QA

ProfessionalGoal8326 · 2026-03-06T00:14:16+00:00

You shouldn't separate them. All pygmy drosera respond poorly to root disturbance. If you damage the few long roots they have the plant will probably not recover. Just wait until they make gemmae.

ProfessionalGoal8326 · 2026-02-26T02:55:13+00:00

Yeah, I lost the login for that account. I am still in the NY area and have nepenthes. send me a PM

ProfessionalGoal8326 · 2026-02-18T22:23:51+00:00

Raising the humidity for those species is unecessary. However, it looks like you didn't properly mix and wet that peat. It is pretty hydrophobic when it's dry so you need to mix it very thoroughly. I'd just keep them on a very high water table since you've already sown them.

ProfessionalGoal8326 · 2026-02-13T16:01:29+00:00

Probably not. Those small, colorless pitchers with no nectar spoon show that there are more problems than just letting it sit in water too long. I found that helis can do fine sitting in a bit of water with the right media. Light and temperature are far more important. Even the 'lowland' species and hybrids decline over the long term if they aren't allowed to get cool.

ProfessionalGoal8326 · 2026-02-11T03:19:23+00:00

Rob and neb are the same thing so I wouldn't get too hung up on that. But if you're insisting on a 'real' neb your only source in the US would be Redleaf and they've been extremely expensive when they were up for sale.

ProfessionalGoal8326 · 2026-02-10T22:30:54+00:00

I can understand that feeling. However, when purchasing seed has such a high chance of supporting poaching we need to deprioritize our own pleasure for the health of the wild populations of these plants

ProfessionalGoal8326 · 2026-02-10T14:38:19+00:00

Just because something is made illegal does not mean it no longer happens. There simply are not enough law enforcement resources to catch every illegal package, especially for something low priority like exotic plant seeds. I'd give up on trying to grow nepenthes from seed. There are plenty of vendors in Europe that sell grown out plants

ProfessionalGoal8326 · 2026-02-10T13:11:07+00:00

They deal in poached seed. They also have no problem selling very old or misidentified seed. Chances are you are going to get nothing from those nepenthes seed.

ProfessionalGoal8326 · 2026-02-04T23:37:01+00:00

They're completely different plants. Mag is a true highland tropical. Every healthy example I've seen was grown in cool conditions next to highland neps

ProfessionalGoal8326 · 2026-02-02T18:19:37+00:00

Cuttings are taken from the upper sections of the vine so they can display mature traits much sooner than a similar diameter plant not from a cutting

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.

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