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Beautiful flower and lovely photo!

The original eBay listing for these in US is also definitely jungle collected plants not even nursery propagated. This article has been posted on here before but it is enlightening https://www.wired.com/story/nightmare-houseplant-obsession-nepenthes/

Wow, special plant! Sorry to hear about your cat.

Wow you should be pleased! Those flasks almost have too many roots! I’d like to at least feel like I’m adding more roots for deflasked plants but would be tough to grow those any better!

Unfortunately there are many illegal things for sale on the internet.

Well grown and excellent plant!

Looks cool and newly discovered = illegal for sure

Still illegal in USA as far as I know

Where did you get this one from? I have few from Teresa. One of mine is in bud but i think a ways off from bloom

Did you have any idea how big the synsepalum was going to be when you purchased it? I’ve never seen a strain like that

Really lovely. Well done!

I think that is a very honest assessment. At least from a hybridizing perspective I would say this one falls within the 'worth a shot' category. I have a handful of catasetinae from SVO, I've tried to stick with stuff that has a really strong hybridizing direction.

That is a good point - I guess what I meant is that with higher nitrogen ratio the total ppm of fertilizer added (ionized or not) will be lower for the amount of nitrogen provided. I don't have RO where I am but I have decent well water and I continuously feed my paphs so I try to limit using...

This is a plant I’ve hadfor a while now blooming earlier this year. You can guess where it came from. Actually a hard variety to come by. More of sentimental value than anything else - the flower reflexes badly after a little while. But it does bloom twice a year. The other photos are lehua...

Dyna-gro 7-9-5 seems like a similar concept with lower cal-mag. But for tds it adds to the fertilizer solution it doesn’t have that much nitrogen. I think your formula would be better in that respect. It would be great if there was also a commercially available orchid fertilizer with an...

I’ve been using southern ag max acid 30-10-10 which you can get in Amazon 22% urea, 5% ammonia, 2% nitrate so it’s not 100% urea like jack’s. I would think you could try rotating it every once in a while. Though I would recommend mixing fertilizer with some tap water for the buffering effect...

lol I guess I’m only going have even more trouble with tribbles as time goes on given the growth rate of the damn thing

I’m just going to say regarding clonal names, though appropriate maybe you could rein it in a little bit? You gave me a piece of your mexipedium which is growing happily but now I just found out what its name is 😂😂

Thank you! I think we might both be using the same racking and lighting system. It’s nice how easily available a reasonably priced LED set up is these days. I used to grow with a southeast window but the plants grow so much more consistently with the lights.

I work very close to Longwood - I’m sure that was a cool experience. They’re just finishing up a huge renovation (I think it was $300 million) where they tore down a lot of those old greenhouses. I think most of the orchids are now kept in different complex on the other side of route 1. I am...