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Post by kltower on Aug 9, 2007 10:22:46 GMT 8
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Post by isaacgoh on Aug 9, 2007 19:08:41 GMT 8
Wow,
My eyes nearly came out of its socket when I saw the pictures. Glad I put my name first on the list of Rajah buyer from BE.
Rgds,
Isaac
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Post by cactustts on Aug 9, 2007 22:51:20 GMT 8
Wow, that's spectacular. Wonder how they take care of so many of them, they will need another few more hills to accommodate all the neps in their list!
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Post by rainforestguy on Aug 10, 2007 5:07:20 GMT 8
20,000 sounds like the reinvention of N. Miranda to me. N. Miranda is gorgeous but is infertile.
Time will tell if these "beauts" are productive or sterile. Seems like a lot of time and a lot of work to reinvent the wheel which cannot run because of lack of fuel.
The seed grown plants you grow today will be the progenitors of tomorrow. Don't let a species fall through your fingers. Each one is unique and when its gone, its gone forever!
M
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Post by kltower on Aug 10, 2007 11:39:53 GMT 8
Michael,
Seeds of exotic neps (other than mirablis and gracils) are hard to come by even in this part of the nepenthes world. Especially rajah seeds, when legally they are not supposed to be harvested from the NP. So TC plants will do. Afterall, you did start with tc plants. Since we are trying to grow rajah in an unnatural environment, killing them will not be as bad as killing a seedling.
Choong
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Post by rainforestguy on Aug 11, 2007 5:42:26 GMT 8
There are fertile seed producing plants in captivity and no these are not from BE's clones. I believe there are over a dozen plants of matured sizes in Germany alone. Others exist in private collections mostly belonging to state officials and people in the know.
I believe other adults also exist in some parts of asia and even in the states. This is something of an unknown data. I even received seeds from an unknown donor who sent them to my work address and how they knew my work address and who I was is still a mystery. It was labeled N. rajah and I thought it was a joke.
M
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