i never thought these would get this big....lol..now i gotta go find the name...again
cindy
big bloom?
WOW!!!
Wow, love that bloom
i paid $32 for the big basket of this plant...just on sunday i saw our local lowes had little 4 inch hanging baskets..but i like my biggun....lol
cindy
we don't get stuff like that!
It's a Nepenthes http://davesgarden.com/pf/b/Nepenthaceae/Nepenthes/
i knew as soon as someone said the name i would know it.....lol...tyvm..:)
does anyone know how to propogate these?...there are more than one plant in the pot, but i was just curious
cindy
really neat looking
That bloom is just way weird!!! You have to get use to it. The first sighting is a shock. Really a nifty bloom!!
Judy
Yes, that is Nepenthes, in English it is know as Pitcherplant. That thing in the picture is not a bloom, it is a pitcher, which function is to make insects to go inside of it, and to collect the available energy that has been released from the dead insects.
Pitcherplants do also bloom with quite common looking flowers, but the blooming is quite rare.
There are very many different species of Pitcherplants, and they differ quite much from each other. The one in the picture looks like a hybrid and luckily those are usually quite easy to propagate, all you need to do is to take a few cuttings and soak them in rainwater in 100% humid until they have formed roots. Then just plant them into a mix of pure peat and sphagnum-moss.
nepenthes fusca..a highland type..easy to grow and the pitchers get fairly large. I just started collecting these again..I had a huge plant in a 10 inch basket two years ago at work that had over 100 pitchers at once.I gave it to a grower nearby..he didn't water it all winter and it died!!GGR! I just got N. truncata..the pitchers can get so big a person can stick their hand down into it.I also got a N.ramaspina...which gets black slim long pitchers. This is a pic of my N. Fusca
FEED ME........ROTFL
Hap
Can I actually grow these in a hanging basket?
Put it in the GH for the winter????
I was filling my order for Logees out and scratched the pitcher plant off
now it may be back on.....
i just got mine this spring...but it is in a hanging basket, 10 inch, and it will be in the greenhouse this winter.....:)
cindy
Why wouldn't they be fine......?? As long as you keep a warm GH....My is in a hanging basket and seems to be doing fine. Of course, I won't go below 45 in the winter and if I do I will be for about 10 min. You should be fine. Neat plant.
They seemed like a bog type plant
so I didn't think a hanger was where they'd be happy
Water them alot. They'll never know that they are hanging instead of being in a bog if you don't tell them....LOL
Hap
Nepenthes do well in unmilled shapnum moss kept moist not soggy.mist occationally, and water with rain water or distilled water.Bright light..no hot sun, and humidity should be around 40% or higher.cuttings can be taken and placed directly into the shapnum moss in another pot and kept moist till growth starts.keep cuttings in lower light till rooted. I grow all mine in baskets....these are a jungle type not really bog type like USA types are.
:-)
As long as the pot is plastic or glazed ceramic, the hanging basket idea works. Nepenthes have two types of growth and pitchers. In my Nepenthes, the rosette phase produced large 6" - 7" pitchers most of last year. Late last year, they started to vine. This phase, on my Nepenthes, produced only a little nub. I cut all, but one, down to a few inches a month ago. Other rosettes have formed on the sides and have produced 2 or 3 small pitchers.