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Post by funkychips on Sept 11, 2007 14:33:26 GMT 8
Today I took a detour during lunchtime down to Sg Buloh again, and got two pots of truncata and a bundle of T.ionantha cultivar. Will post a pic when I get it this evening for ID.
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Post by tarence on Sept 11, 2007 15:20:02 GMT 8
me thinks it`s a ionantha clump.....correct ah ? if yes, they`ll turn red when they flower, then more pups will come out & the mother plant will be quite rock steady still. the clump grows like that.
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Post by funkychips on Sept 11, 2007 19:16:20 GMT 8
Yep, it keeps growing into a ball like a pom pom. One larger than a footie was selling for rm300. I thought it was a plastic decor with spikes at first glance ;D
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Post by David on Sept 11, 2007 23:42:55 GMT 8
I saw that too funkychips. I was there last weekend. I literarry jamed on my brakes and immediately did a u-turn when I saw that. Could not believe my eyes. Jonathan was saying that that is a fake. They tie the ionathas on a ball cage of some sort. That make sense as looked too round and symatrical to be natural. Hey did you also see that hairy tillies? Tarence told me the name but I forgot (I've got a bad memory). Such a beauty. I wanted it so much but RM90 ++ was a little too much for me at the moment. On top of that Tarence was saying it is a challenge to grow that fella well. So.. bye, bye to that fella... Another time...  |
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Post by funkychips on Sept 12, 2007 0:27:07 GMT 8
Yup, was tempted but luckily didn't because also of the said price. I was a bit sceptical about it being hairy and easy to fall prey to rot. Anyhow I'm going back for round 3. Xenographica, here I come!!!
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Post by tarence on Sept 12, 2007 9:37:56 GMT 8
the ball-like ionantha is real, it`s a clump form of the variety. andy hangs his many many clumps across the garden like festive Christmas deco, really awesome. i only got 3 clumps so can`t do much....
yep, the xerographica would be a better buy than the hairy tills which require max sun & have to be protected from rains otherwise they may lose their white fine hairs.....a bit difficult to maintain.
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Post by David on Sept 12, 2007 10:08:41 GMT 8
No laa tarence. It is bigger than a football and is really symetrically round. Jon quitely dug into it and found some sort of cage thingy that the ionathas were attached to.
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Post by tarence on Sept 12, 2007 10:38:51 GMT 8
Okay, didn`t see it meself but i`ve seen real naturally clumped ones which are quite huge.....not as big as a football laa tho.
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Post by David on Sept 12, 2007 14:07:55 GMT 8
kinda lausy lor, what the nursery people do to the ionatha to con us. But I must say it was still beautiful. Look a little artificial, but beautiful.
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Post by tarence on Sept 12, 2007 14:15:56 GMT 8
Like Donald Trump says ` It`s nothing personal, it`s just business`....heheh. whatever to attract business.
i know of someone who once bought really expensive tills to use as Chinese new year decoration for his carpark...he spent about rm2k.....i won`t say what happened to the tills after that laa....sad story.
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Post by David on Sept 12, 2007 14:26:15 GMT 8
Waa lau wei!!! (sorry Lau, just an expression. Not calling you  Spend RM2k just to decorate. Can tell me who so that I can ask if that person want to throw them away after that. If so I go collect from him/her. |
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Post by tarence on Sept 12, 2007 15:19:00 GMT 8
Too late David...that was 2 years ago....most of the tills i guess would be history already.
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Post by funkychips on Sept 12, 2007 16:10:31 GMT 8
and to think I just started my meagre collection not long ago....  well, money does buy everything  |
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Post by tillycollector07 on Sept 13, 2007 17:10:01 GMT 8
Hi tarence, what is the name of that hairy white tilly?? Is is tectorum fuzzy giant?? it cost US20 for one.
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Post by tarence on Sept 13, 2007 17:35:22 GMT 8
actually i didn`t get to see it so i`m not sure but tectorum FG is the only big hairy white till i know...the rest which i tried are smaller ones.
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Post by funkychips on Sept 13, 2007 23:15:42 GMT 8
say, speaking of tills, where have all the stocks gone to?? i asked the owners and none of them can tell me when the next shipment is gonna come in . All I can see now are stricta, ionantha, xero, cyanea, juncea, usneoides, and the little two lonely tectorums. I couldn't find any CM and the others. |
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Post by ericsow on Sept 14, 2007 15:27:34 GMT 8
say, speaking of tills, where have all the stocks gone to?? i asked the owners and none of them can tell me when the next shipment is gonna come in . All I can see now are stricta, ionantha, xero, cyanea, juncea, usneoides, and the little two lonely tectorums. I couldn't find any CM and the others. Funkychips, which shop you visited at sg. buluh? |
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Post by funkychips on Sept 14, 2007 18:14:54 GMT 8
Hee Garden, Evergreen plantation, the little shack with more till variety and the wholesaler with lots of Neps and broms I forgot both their names already. In fact when I asked Hee Garden they told me Evergreen plants is cutting down on bringing in tills because not many people here are buying them and its expensive to bring in  . Then they said all of the nurseries have got their new respective lands and will go their separate ways once the government gives the green light. I guess no choice but to wait on them to get anything. |
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Post by David on Dec 21, 2007 17:57:12 GMT 8
Ok, in the past 1-2 weeks Clare and Sam from Singapore has contacted me asking about the status of the nurseries in Sg. Buloh. So, since I was on leave today, I decided to visit Sg. Buloh and "interview" the nurseries there to find out more about their move. Ok, here's a simple map of Sg. buloh nurseries...  We will be entering the nursery area from the Sg. Buloh hospital side, ie. south of the map. All the nurseries in area "A" has been demolished and cleared right up to the Hindu Temple. Construction is going on now. According to one person there it's a road. The nurseries have been moved to 2 new locations in Bukit Rahman Putra (near your place jonathan) and Subang. Could not find out the exact location. Some of them moved to other places on their own. The story behind it was that the land on which they have been operating for so long is actually govenment land and some of the nurseries were operated by illegals. Area "B" nurseries are required to move out by Chinese New Year next year, ie. 7-8 February 2008. They would be placed in the 2 new locations mentioned above. However, some of them told me they are moving to their own place elsewhere. It seems there was a mega sale some time in September this year as the nurseries wanted to clear their stocks before they move. Hmm, I did not know about that. What a waste. As of now, the authorities have told those nurseries in area "C" that they need not move. So there will still be that small section of nursery in Sg. Buloh including Hee Nursery. |
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Post by ischan on Dec 29, 2007 20:50:32 GMT 8
I just took a vacation to Kuala Lumpur and I made it down to Sg Buloh. I found two nurseries in particular with a large selection of pitcher plants. One of them is Hee nursery which is mentioned earlier on in this thread. They also have some saracenia, Venus flytrap's, and air plants. There is another nursery that is on the main road a little further down after the Hindu temple. They've got quite a lot of pitcher plants there, but no air plants.
I think that the prices of the pitcher plants are quite expensive, they can go from 75 to 150 ringgit for a pot of Miranda or Ventrata. I didn't see too much else, there was one bical and a few Vikings at Hee's. They were all going for at least 100 to 200 ringgit. There was also one black pitcher plant which appears to be a ramispina. It was very heat stressed though, the growing tip was curled like a pig's tail, and it had many black spots on it. I didn't ask the price of that one.
The second nursery after the Hindu Temple had a good buy, they are selling truncata, at a reasonable size, for 20 ringgit each. Besides that, they also have another type of pitcher plant where the pitcher is very narrow, it looks just like Miranda but it is much more narrow. I don't know what it is but they are selling it as if it is a Miranda. It's probably some other species and if you want to give that a try, I think those all the neps you can find at Sg. Buloh.
Other than that, you have to call the nursery up every time and check when the new stock comes in, according to the staff there, once new stock is in, the regular customers go down and buy everything on the same day and then there's nothing left except for the 50 pots of Miranda that each nursery has in the back.
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Spend RM2k just to decorate. Can tell me who so that I can ask if that person want to throw them away after that. If so I go collect from him/her.
. Then they said all of the nurseries have got their new respective lands and will go their separate ways once the government gives the green light. I guess no choice but to wait on them to get anything.