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Nepenthes Ventrata and Nepenthes Mirabilis pitcher plants hanging in shady spot to rest after travel

Growlist: Nepenthes genus species and hybrids

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Most of the nepenthes plants I have are small, under 3 years old. Nepenthes can grow really, really slowly till they hit a certain critical size. Here is an almost comprehensive list of all the nepenthes I am growing. Apart from these, I have several other seeds sown, but not yet germinated and some unidentified plants.

I’ll be adding photos here as well as creating more individual descriptive pages as I get time.

Here are the species from the nepenthes genus that I am currently growing:

Nepenthes genus

Nepenthes species

  1. Nepenthes sumatrana
  2. Nepenthes ampullaria
  3. Nepenthes mirabilis green
  4. Nepenthes mirabilis red
  5. Nepenthes rafflesiana
  6. Nepenthes vietchii
  7. Nepenthes robcantleyi
  8. Nepenthes truncata
  9. Nepenthes thoreilli
  10. Nepenthes bicalcarata
  11. Nepenthes reinwardtiana
  12. Nepenthes benstonei
  13. Nepenthes burkei
  14. Nepenthes glabrata
  15. Nepenthes northiana
  16. Nepenthes bellii

Seedlings of nepenthes nepenthes mirabilis var echinostoma, nepenthes maxima, nepenthes ampullaria red, nepenthes veitchii, nepenthes maxima – giant wavy, nepenthes rafflesiana, nepenthes rafflesiana var alata

Seeds not yet germinated: Nepenthes smilesii, nepenthes hispida, nepenthes bongso, nepenthes merrilliana, nepenthes hemsleyana, nepenthes northiana, nepenthes maxima (sulawesi), nepenthes bongso

Nepenthes hybrids

  1. Nepenthes x ventrata
  2. Nepenthes rajah x veitchii
  3. Nepenthes mirabilis var globosa x hamata
  4. Nepenthes maxima x vogeilli
  5. Nepenthes densiflora x robcantleyi
  6. Nepenthes vietchii x platychila
  7. Nepenthes robcantleyi x veitchii
  8. Nepenthes mirabilis var globosa x ampullaria
  9. Nepenthes alata x mirabilis var globosa
  10. Nepenthes rafflesiana x ampullaria
  11. Nepenthes rafflesiana x ampullaria {west of Jale, Johor, Malaysia}
  12. Nepenthes alata x ampullaria
Unboxing nepenthes ampullaria

Nepenthes Ampullaria pitcher plants

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My Nepenthes Ampullaria pitcher plants arrived today. These are seed grown plants. And there were surprises. Some good, some… not.

The two plants I purchased arrived somewhat haphazardly packed. But there were lots of pitchers. Someone had put in a lot of effort and time growing them from seed.

Unboxing nepenthes ampullaria

The plants were sent in plastic bags with an inexplicable piece of wood added – for support? Can’t say. Didn’t appear to be supporting anything.

There were loads of extra plantlets. All apparently seed grown. And completely mixed up in the sphagnum moss they shipped with. It almost seemed like someone simply got rid of all the nepenthes ampullaria they had. Packed the two plants sold, then just collected the seedling pot and bundled it up as an extra – grown seedlings and newly germinating seedlings all mixed up in the sphagnum potting mix. Summarily evicted. Broke my heart to see it. The seller wasn’t selling anything else at all after I purchased these. I wonder if this was an end of hobby clearance sale. Plants grown from seed take ages to get as robust as the two I had purchased. And yet the manner in which they were packed almost reminded one of a trash bag.

Nepenthes ampullaria plants mixed up in sphagnum moss

Nepenthes ampullaria plants mixed up in sphagnum moss. You can’t see it in the photo, but the sphagnum moss contains lots of seeds, plantlets, germinating seedlings and such – nepenthes ampullaria in various stages of growth from seed.

Heartbreaking doesn’t begin to describe this. The plants were completely bruised and in some cases, just…. overwhelmed and wilting, broken, or rotting. What a contrast it was to the Nepenthes Ventrata and Mirabilis that had just arrived on the previous day, lovingly shipped in their pots in live sphagnum. Seedlings such as this one were all through the moss. Most of them broken, unlikely to survive. A joyous unpacking of new plants had rapidly turned into a search and rescue mission. I carefully pulled out as many as I could, but I could see that it was hopeless. They were too fragile for this kind of treatment.

Nepenthes ampullaria seedling rescued from sphagnum moss packing

Nepenthes ampullaria seedling rescued from sphagnum moss packing

And there were a couple of sundews as well! Completely smothered in the sphagnum and a sticky mess.

I potted them up as best as I could, knowing fully that the seedlings would most likely not make it. One larger plant perhaps may. Remains to be seen. I’ve given it a nice pot and will pamper it a bit. This is what the growing area looks like now.

rescued nepenthes plants

The rescued nepenthes plants settled in a well lit but shady area of balcony, to rest and recover from their trauma.