Few Cephalotus

[Muckydoo]

Here is a few pics of my Cephalotus.
First is the one I got from VarunA.
Such a great plant, never gives me trouble and gets very dark!

And this one is my German Giant. Extremely vigorous in its growth.

I have them under a humidity dome and what I consider lower light levels. They really don't seem to mind!

 

[VarunA]

Looking good. Glad it is doing well for you.

 

[John Yates]

looking great ,getting some great colour ,coolish conditions in direct sun will usually make for darker colour in the ceph pitchers

 

[Muckydoo]

A division of the plant that I posted above.
Still going strong. Cephalotus are really hardy! I've had them die back a few times down to nothing and then start popping out big pitchers.

 

[VarunA]

Looking great man. Great job!

 

[Muckydoo]

Few weeks to get full colour on the pitchers.

 

[Muckydoo]

A little cephalotus tower I decided to play with. I still have 2 pots full of baby cephalotus that I made with a small tissue culture tube of cephalotus that I got from @WillyCKH over 3 years ago. Once they got out of that pot and bag they've been in for a few years, they really took off. I'm amazed at the resilience of this plant!

I didn't add springtails yet so there is a bit of white mold that need to cycle through.
I'm hopeful that it pushes upwards and fills the top in. I didn't do anything special with this, it's just peat and perlite and I shoved teeny tiny baby plants in there and hope for the best and I think 75% of them survived and even a few that I thought were dead turned out to be alive after over a month of looking brown and dead.

And my 2+ year old pot of TC cephalotus.
They sit on the bottom shelf out of direct light in pure sphagnum moss.
I open the bag three times in the past 2 years once to add a little bit of water and two times to harvest a few plants.

 

[Sparrow]

A little cephalotus tower I decided to play with. I still have 2 pots full of baby cephalotus that I made with a small tissue culture tube of cephalotis that I got from @WillyCKH over 3 years ago. Once they got out of that pot and bag they've been in for a few years they really took off. I'm amazed at the resilience of this plant!

I didn't add springtails yet so there is a bit of white mold that need to cycle through.
I'm hopeful that it pushes upwards and fills the top in. I didn't do anything special with this, it's just peat and perlite and I shoved teeny tiny baby plants in there and hope for the best and I think 75% of them survived and even a few that I thought were dead turned out to be alive after over a month of looking brown and dead.
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And my 2+ year old pot of TC cephalotus.
They sit on the bottom shelf out of direct light in pure sphagnum moss.
I open the bag three times in the past 2 years once to add a little bit of water and two times to harvest a few plants.

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Cool idea. Post pics of progress.

 

[WillyCKH]

So happy to see them alive

 

[Muckydoo]

Slowly taking the bag off, now past the top section of plants.

 

[Muckydoo]

First big pitcher. Double in size of the last one it made.

And here is the opposite side.
Not much going on at the bottom.

 

[Muckydoo]

These are doing really really well.
I have given them no food other than a few springtails which I have seen floating in the traps. I might given them a tiny amount of maxsea this weekend. Maybe. Still hesitant since it's doing so good on its own but I will start with a very diluted mixture of 50ppm to start.

The bottom row is still incredibly slow but I expected that.

 

[Lloyd Gordon]

I feed the tetra colour bits if the pitchers are big enough.

 

[Muckydoo]

I do have a bottle of fluval bug bites.

 

[Shoggoths]

Nice, when mine are doing well, I usually do nothing but recently, I put a pellet of slow releasing fertilizer (like osmocote) in one pitcher of each plants and they are looking way better (I try on one a few months ago to be sure it would not kill it).

 

[Muckydoo]

Getting some colour.