If you’re like me and are always either too broke or too slow to take advantage of Nepenthes x kinabaluensis being made available…mira x villosa is a darn good substitute. This seed grown plant from @bramblesbotanicals (and I think grown out of @jeremiahsplants seeds) is a significantly fast plant as far as highlanders go, has great maroon-brick red coloration, and with every new pitcher it not only gets bigger, but the peristome gets broader and toothier. When it matures I expect it’ll make a pretty good imitation, if slightly smaller, of true x kinabaluensis
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Two Nepenthes vogelii growing out, can’t wait to finally see uppers eventually.
Or I at least think the second is pure vogelii; it was purchased as vogelii x aristo from Predatory Plants but has no aristo in it, and they had a pure vogelii set at the time too so there was a switchup (similar thing unfortunately happened when they sent me a robcantleyi x truncata instead of rob x vogelii, and never heard back when asked about either one…).
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Just keeps getting better as the traps get bigger…Nepenthes maxima “tentena” x (veitchii x platychila). The platy influence is showing strong.
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First update checking things back home: I lost my Yucca do Pinguicula cyclosecta unfortunately but a new locality replacement was got recently…and it’s almost immediately bloomed and started dividing.
Of course I took advantage and crossed it, since the white gigantea, emarginata, and several hybrids are still flowering
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Thunbergia mysorensis is blooming again! For some odd reason it only puts out flowers from way down low, so I find them draped over or hiding between the pots rather than hanging from the vines that are right in my face…
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Am I finally succeeding with Nepenthes campanulata? Seems to like a pinch of shade interestingly…but that’s the best pitcher I’ve yet seen.
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The coyote has another plant to share, that got repotted just after this: Nepenthes robcantleyi x (aristolochioides x spectabilis)
Chunky little traps show off incredible changing stripe colors, and they should get a fair bit bigger now that this guy has more space to spread in. Most of the coloration seems to come from the pollen parent, but rob provides extra peristome flare and size.
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New video out!
This week's midweek plant highlight is one of my present favorite natural hybrids: Nepenthes x alisaputrana. Giagantic, colorful, also so far in my experience extremely easy and fairly rapid to grow, it's an amazing intersection between one of the genus giants and another highly prized endemic in the same region.
Find the video here: https://youtu.be/XW4QGGfu53A

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Embron’s back in the greenhouse again, showing off our Nepenthes ramispina x truncata! This plant is a relatively recent addition (about a year ago), so it doesn’t need much of a repot presently, but there’s a bit of yuck on the surface that we’re going to change out.
Of the large slender dark plants I have this is probably making the tallest pitchers, close to competing with izumiae x truncata though.
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Nepenthes bellii x robcantleyi, bouncing back rapidly after the repot it needed. It’s yet to flower, but once settled it makes a lot of big, chunky traps. Didn’t inherit the dark color of rob sadly, but the contrast of lime green peristome (which blushes bronze sometimes) and purple inside is attractive.
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