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Post by tarence on May 2, 2007 17:26:54 GMT 8
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Post by artificialive on May 2, 2007 17:38:07 GMT 8
huhuhuhuhu wish i have at least one...
Btw, what is ur growing condition for Ceph, Terance?
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Post by tarence on May 2, 2007 17:47:44 GMT 8
vermaculite plus peat moss plus spag moss.....actually i did not change the original medium it came in...i was too scared of disturbing the plant.
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Post by piscesilim on May 2, 2007 19:54:10 GMT 8
Cool!
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Post by bifurcatum on May 2, 2007 19:58:04 GMT 8
Not only droolling,
I'm poisoned~
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Post by tarence on May 2, 2007 20:44:55 GMT 8
oops, growing conditions ? i just put in in full sun....kept it a lil` dry but moist not wet....i`m porbably not the best person to ask as it only survived 6 months......it was 6 wonderful months though....
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Post by stefan on Sept 8, 2007 22:27:01 GMT 8
Wow, pretty, I agree with you on being afraid to change the medium, Im too scared to change it in my VFT!  Lovely looking, but The pictures are a bit small in myopinion |
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Post by cactustts on Sept 8, 2007 23:24:14 GMT 8
I wonder how long would it take from small plantlet to that size? Years probably.  |
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Post by cindy on Sept 9, 2007 0:12:12 GMT 8
cactustts, it depends on whether the plantlet is a seedling, a cutting or a TC plant. The cutting would grow to adult size fastest.  Tarence's plant would be a good 2-3 year-old from a cutting. |
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Post by cactustts on Sept 9, 2007 9:56:17 GMT 8
Cindy, did you place yours under direct sun light? How many hours? Did you feed them?
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Post by cindy on Sept 9, 2007 12:07:28 GMT 8
TS, only direct sunlight for at most half an hour. The rest of the time, it is very bright shade. The problem with growing them warmer this way is that they produce multiple offshoots instead of producing larger pitchers. My largest clump has about 100 odd pitchers which are still small. Growers who keep them in their air-con room at night has much less pitchers but their pitchers are 25-50% larger than mine. So for large pitchers, cooling is a must. At least down to 23-24C.
Feeding is done using diluted orchid fertiliser or liquid seaweed. I fertilised only occasionally when I also fertilise my Nep seedlings.
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Post by tarence on Sept 9, 2007 23:52:11 GMT 8
here are 2 more photos of my belated ceph ....   i take very little credit for how it looks coz it was already quite splendid when it came. it just got a little more colourful and bigger with exposure to full sun ( which NOW i know was one of the reasons it kiao-ed ) a funny thing i noticed was that the pitcher lid actually lowered itself closer to the pitcher ( almost closing it ) during hot afternoons to reduce moisture loss from the pitcher & then it would re-open later in the evening. |
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Post by tarence on Sept 10, 2007 0:21:01 GMT 8
Btw Cindy, how is the feeding done plse ? inside the pitchers, sprayed on the leaves or via root ?
i don`t quite get the limited sun exposure. when mine came ( plse look at the 1st 3 photos ), it was a lil` smaller & not so colourful. with 3 hours direct sunlite, it became bigger and colourful. don`t they grow fully exposed to sun in their natural environment ?
oops, which happens to be a lot cooler & got drastic nite time temp drop as well....i`m confused, do share plse.
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Post by cactustts on Sept 10, 2007 10:51:03 GMT 8
Thanks Cindy for the tips.
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Post by cindy on Sept 10, 2007 12:35:07 GMT 8
Foliar feed. Very light spray only because I am afraid excess will accumulate on the pitchers and they will rot. I have this theory (got lots of others actually) that if you want to fertilise it has to be done with good light. Try not to fertilise when the weather is gloomy for weeks...the fertiliser will not be utilised by the plant as much as on sunny days. More light, more photosynthesis, more growth. Cephs grow large and green in shade. In full sun, they don't get as large in cultivation. So some growers grow them in shade to get the size, then slowly turn them red by giving more and more light. Compared to yours, mine are babies. Don't want to fry them yet with that. Hehe. In the wild, temperatures where the Cephs are can go up to maybe even 40C but their nights are cool at around 25 in summer. So imagine, the temperature difference is 15C. In winter the difference is equally large. I read that cooling has to be provided for during our hot months which is equivalent to summer heat or the adult plants will rot in the roots and die. Young Cephs have no problem sitting through the heat. Mine balcony heats up to 35C during the hot days and drops only to 30C at night. My TC babies breeze through but I doubt any adults will be able to survive that. Well, I'll experiment once I get some adults.  I can understand your confusion...one moment I say I keep my baby Cephs out of the sun, another moment I say they can take more heat than the adults right?  That's because I have had the TC Cephs for only one and a half year. I can't be sure how much light they can take. For sure I know now that they can survive the conditions at my balcony but next year, they will be older and may demand a lower temperature drop at night. Summer in Australia may be hotter but I am not risking my Cephs. Cephs leh...you know? Hehe. |
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Post by tarence on Sept 10, 2007 13:17:24 GMT 8
yeah i know exactly what you mean Cindy....they are Cephs.....probably the highest in demand CP in our CP world.....
i do strongly advice anyone who wants to buy one to carefully study the requirements of the ceph first before flashing your credit card or whipping out your cash. I know money can buy a lot of things but it`s not fair to kill this wonderful CP just because you did not do enough research. Me included of course.
with Cindy on our forum, hopefully enough light can be shed on the growth of this fab and hitherto mysterious CP in the tropics.....
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Post by cindy on Sept 10, 2007 13:28:20 GMT 8
Yup, got loads of experience to share because I have single-handedly killed at least 5 adult Cephs and 20 TC Cephs. |
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Post by tarence on Nov 24, 2007 22:41:54 GMT 8
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Post by hongrui on Nov 24, 2007 22:58:16 GMT 8
lovely photos. tarence, i'm gonna show these 2 big photos to my cephs and tell them to buck up.
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Post by tarence on Nov 25, 2007 11:12:12 GMT 8
heheh, i doubt ours will ever grow like these.....coz they came almost at this size & colouration...sigh, the memories.....i can hope tho` that my current one will one day become like this.
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Tarence's plant would be a good 2-3 year-old from a cutting.
That's because I have had the TC Cephs for only one and a half year. I can't be sure how much light they can take. For sure I know now that they can survive the conditions at my balcony but next year, they will be older and may demand a lower temperature drop at night. Summer in Australia may be hotter but I am not risking my Cephs. Cephs leh...you know? Hehe.
