My project is to show how people grow their nepenthes on windowsill

Dogrem said:
Are Nepenthes hybrids good or are pure species better?
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This seems like your first "hot take" video. As someone who keeps dart frogs (an example you raise in the video), and believes in the importance of species genetics, I fully disagree with your assessment*.

I think it is telling that you talk about the species that are "unique", but hybrids aren't really. Indeed you point out that once you get too far from species in complex hybrids, people are less interested. Species are unique because each has an evolutionary history, and as a consequence a story to tell, if you were. I tell people, I can always get your hybrids from my species, but you can never get my species back from your hybrids. By the way, I also feel this way about the sea of Sarr hybrids, which leave me feeling... Nothing. They seem like hallow shells of the incredible forms of Sarr species with locals (and yes, I know Sarr hybridize in nature like mad things). I think in both cases hybrids are created out of laziness (as you point out for blooming issues with Neps).

Anyhow, it was a good vid! But, I suspect more controversial than you anticipated. Clearly, it got my dander up. :p

*I would never leave a contradictory comment on YouTube! That is just creating pointless argument. Here, where people are civil, I thought I could disagree with you in a civilized way. I hope it is taken that way. If I crossed a line, know I did not intend to, and regret any hard feelings.
 
Lloyd Gordon said:
But I do enjoy an interesting "easy", available plant too.
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This is a very fair point, and well taken! While I don't do hybrids, I do recommend them to people starting out. Sometimes. That said, I think species are more valued, and the proliferation of hybrids is out of laziness, in part. As @Dogrem points out in the video, complex hybrids can be worth less, because they are further from true species. Essentially, I think hybrids are good for beginners, but if you really get into growing CP, you should demand species. Not least to place a value on the preserving species withing cultivation. But that's just how I approach it.
 
Nothing like a good debate haha. For me on a windowsill, pure species are too demanding and you really need to know your stuff to have they happy.
That's also why if you were to ask a few years ago how to grow Nepenthes, the answer would be "terrarium, tent or greenhouse".
I know because because doing my channel when I was saying it's possible on a windowsill people called me BS lol

Now, in a tent pure species are great, that's right. But then the chance you can make pure species are quite low.
So most of the time, people will make hybrids. I don't think there is a good way or a right answer.
It's a bit like pineapple pizza! you love it or you hate it lol
 
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Dogrem said:
Now, in a tent pure species are great, that's right.
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I see your points. It is true that breeding can produce a much easier, and thus more accessible, plant to cultivate. Look at Phalaenopsis orchids. The species live in dark, stagnant, humid, and warm understories of rainforests. But through breeding efforts, we have the world's most popular houseplant orchid which tolerates bright, dry, and open home environments. Perhaps some day Nepenthes will be like that.

Dogrem said:
But then the chance you can make pure species are quite low.
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This is actually one of my concerns about all the hybrids. It's the same as for the dart frog folks (of which I am one). All this careless hybridization will result in the species becoming exceedingly rare in cultivation, and the remaining plants will become prohibitively expensive. This will be especially true as the restrictions on imports increase.

Dogrem said:
It's a bit like pineapple pizza!
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Nope! I am agreeing with your points that there are uses for hybrids. It is not like pineapple on pizza, which if there is any justice will eventually be properly recognized as a crime against humanity!

 
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Thanks for the heads up on Carnivero. Another way to spend my money. Just ordered a pod of the: Nepenthes boschiana -BE x {[(lowii x veitchii) x boschiana] x veitchii}.
 
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Lloyd Gordon said:
Very interesting. My take on this is that I certainly don't have to feed very often.
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Yes I was a little bit disappointed by the results...
Next time I'll try on TC clones to rule out the variables. And potentially also try root fertilization.
 
It's like misting the plants for years and finding it's bad for dews and not helpful for the rest (maybe it's good for my Heli's with the extra ventilation).
 
The too-small-to-feed pitchers on my smallest plants still end up full of springtails, mites, nematodes, algae, and other critters that presumably are pooping out useable nitrogen compounds/ammonium or otherwise dying and breaking down. The unfed plants in your experiment may well still be feeding themselves unless you block up the pitcher opening with something like a wad of cotton or cut them off.
 
Ertiocx said:
The unfed plants in your experiment may well still be feeding themselves.
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Fair, but the result stays the same: Is feeding a plant really useful?
Because if all the plants get springtails etc., the fact of adding some food/fertilizer manually should still have an impact.

If you want to see "what rock fall faster", dropping them under water will slow them both, but the fastest in water will also be the fastest out of water no?
 
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