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Glad you enjoyed it. Yes I heat the GH all winter, the thermostat is set to 28°c days and 18°c nights but it's be such a cold wet winter that it's more like 22-24°c days and 15°c nights. Next winter I want to upgrade my heating cos the seedling growth rates took a real hit this winter.

Should be good timing, I'm hoping to have alot of my new hybrids available towards the end of the year.

@@Eat-Me-Exotics by any chance do you think you will one day stock edwardsiana ? Because I can’t find it any were

@Aussieaussieoyoy one day yes, not anytime soon unfortunately. They are very hard to come by still in Australia. I make all my plants via seed or cuttings (rather than importing) so it's going to take time for me to get my edwardsianas big enough to flower or cut. But I will have some edwardsiana hybrids available late next year.

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Cheers mate. I'm sure I'll kick it soon.

Unfortunately that's hard lately, it's raining more then it isn't and working around full time work I film when I can.

I've got my fridge set at 10°c but it's plugged into the external thermostat so I can have different temps for day and night

Your in a great spot up there, any lowland species/hybrid would go perfectly outside. Lots of intermediate options too. Look for stuff with maxima, veitchii, truncata, ventricosa, ampullaria or rafflesiana in the mix. I think the only option I have at the moment that would suit well is maxima dark x veitchii, is fast growing and super easy with huge pitchers once it gets going

@Eat-Me-Exotics I bought 2 ventricosa and 2 maxima from Victoria, both ventricosa died within 3 weeks. Both maxima are still growing slowly. One is x rbv the other is x lbv. How much is your maxima dark including postage?

Thats a shame, usually ventricosa are very tough growing. There's a link below to my maxima x veitchii, I've sent this cross up your way before and I know they are going strong, one customer even had it in flower recently. www.eatmeexotics.com.au/shop/p/nepenthes-maxima-dark-x-veitchii-bario-striped

@Eat-Me-Exotics hi, just checking to see if the nepenthes has been sent yet

@alanbentham2836 not yet its on the table to be packed tonight and dropped at the post office tomorrow when I can finish work early. Just saves them getting stuck in the postal system over the weekend. You should have it wednesday/Thursday.

Hahaha I am so lucky where I live to be able to do it. The amount of greenhouses id need would be out of control these days 🤣. Oh this year was a good list, though not amazing seed sets from most but there was edwardsiana, trusmadinesis, veitchii M, lowii x jacquilineae, platychila, peltata x platychila and a few others. We will see how they go in the next month hopefully I get good germination rates.

@@Eat-Me-Exotics You rocks mate :)

Cheers mate. Can't wait to start seeing big mature pitchers of my breeding in everyone's collections

Hahaha yeah sorry, been being sick, flat out and planning a wedding it's been hard to find the time lol.

@@Lilly_At that's awesome, I'm so glad I could help. If you have other questions I'd be more then happy to try answer them for you.

Awesome, yeah it's not the easiest plant also as it gets bigger and older it really needs those cold nights below 10°c to keep it happy.

@@Eat-Me-Exotics So I really need to sell it when it's still small.

The only one I can manage is pest which I spray for as needed if anything comes up, but the rest it's just what ever the outdoor conditions are. Humidity is usually 60%+ which helps but they see temps ranging from 5°c upto 45°c

I think I got them from sage horticultural, I'm really liking them so far.

I with random repot stuff and reuse pots so tags are easier for me. I also buy pots in bulk sometimes 500 at a time

I run them between 10 and 25% in the fridge, multiple things come into play though when pushing plants with high light levels and you need to have everything balanced. Higher light needs higher humidity which means you need better airflow also you need to have a good fertiliser routine as the plants need the food to convert the light into strong growth. If you bring one up with out the other you can start having issues.

@@Eat-Me-Exotics they are pushed to the max, lol!!! got about 175-200 ppfd of light, plants are red, 93% humidity, praying mantis, 2 kind of flyghtless fruitfly, crickets colonie, alot of moth i catch and plenty of other insects that live free in my grow tent plus i sometime drop osmocot in my nepenthes... thanks for the response, i tought about maybe buy some marshydro when my yescom will die, but not sure anymore if im not using them at full capacity, it seem like a waist of money...

I love them personally, plus being dimmable if I move them to another space I can just turn them up or down accordingly.

Nope your maths works out perfectly, mine did not 🤣🤣🤣. It was ment to be 50% perlite lol. BTW it's coco chips not orchid bark, orchid bark breaks down alot faster then coco chips and doesn't hold as much water.

@@Eat-Me-Exotics thanks for that. I’ll definitely try it.

@@Eat-Me-Exotics I hate to be more annoying but where do you get your coco chips?

@everfreebrumby8385 never annoying, I started this channel to help people. I'm in Australia and I order my chips from enfield pet and garden supplies. Good prices and they can supply large amounts as well as bulk perlite as well.

@@Eat-Me-Exotics I’m actually living in Engadine in the Sutherland Shire not far from you. Thanks again.

Quite often I'll leave the door open abit and I make sure to open it up for at least 10 minutes a day. It's not ideal but it's what I can do. Best option would probably be installing a small inlet and outlet fan.

Thanks mate, I don't have one and unfortunately that's was one of the crosses on the likely failed platychila flower spike, good news is I have more Robcantleyi pollen in the fridge and more flowers about to start opening.

Hahaha, true but even though I already had the female I still needed some more for breeding stock. So win win lol

Thanks mate

I spray the moss as it gets alittle dry, but I only water properly every couple of weeks. But the fridge is kept at 90% humidity which keeps the moss very happy.

@@Eat-Me-Exotics thanks for that.

Robcantleyi or rajah? Robcantleyi might handle it for a couple of months with out too much issue. Rajah it's way too warm for.

Cheers mate. Hahaha I had to get it right eventually 😂

500ppm would definitely be too high, sphagnum moss needs very clean water I would go above 50ppm

Thanks mate.

I think they get between 3 to 5 hours direct sun through out the day

@Eat-Me-Exotics I appreciate your response!

Cheers mate, everything went well. 4 week post surgery today and back at work on the building site.

Hahaha I'll admit they don't get as good a dormancy here as colder countries. But I'll accept that cos the trade off is I can grow nepenthes outside all year round lol

@@Eat-Me-Exotics Those last few words really "hurts" me 🤣. But here next to "natural dormancy" we've got a lot of "slugs"... they could eat allo of my outdoor carnivor plants.

Cheers mate. Definitely on the mend now, probably about time to shoot some more videos

@@Eat-Me-Exotics Try to get some rest too, right? 😉

@WindowsillNepenthes hahaha I've done the rest part, now I'm upto the part where I'm back in the gym every other day working on getting my leg strength and stability back. Should be back to work (im a carpenter) this week so interested to see how that goes.

Nope unfortunately each leaf only gets 1 pitcher but every new leaf can grow a pitcher as the plant grows.

Hey mate alot of my plants come from exotica plants but they only release once or twise a year and sell out fast. Otherwise online is your best bet. Pitcher n moss and old world botanicals are both fantastic suppliers. I will be updating my website with new stock late next month as well, feel free to follow me on Facebook and/or instagram I usually try and announce releases about a week before they go up so everyone gets a good chance to get in before they sell out.

I haven't tried maxsea my self as we can't get it here in Australia but I'd probably aim for around 100ppm to start and you could slowly bump it up from there, I wouldn't go much above 200ppm though.

I don't follow a set schedule as it depends on the weather as well as some plants dry out their pots faster then others, I give them a really good soak when I water and then let them almost dry out before watering again. I try and avoid filling the pitchers with water but it's not always possible.

Cheers mate. In the fridge I've got 3 mars hydro ts1000s, great lights and being dimmable I can set them to the light levels I want to use.

Hahahaha yeah unfortunately it's not a cheap set up, but the plants aren't cheap either and I haven't seen anyone manage to grow them well long term with out proper cooling etc, unless your lucky to live somewhere with the right temps.

@@Eat-Me-Exotics the plants are free I saw a lot of nepenthes gracilis in the wild

@@Eat-Me-Exotics except those rare ones

Thanks mate I'll keep that in mind. TBH I haven't even watched the video yet 🤣

Thanks mate, I'm back home now and ready to start recovery

Thanks mate. Always busy I'm there it's nearly a second full time job these days

Hahaha about time I got them all right for a change. Cheers will do, I'm back home now and starting recovery

Thanks mate, recovery starts now.

@@Eat-Me-Exotics 🙌💯 I wish a speedy recovery for you

They are amazing, once they mature they go insane with growth

Thanks mate

Thanks mate. Glad your enjoying it

Most of my helis came from private sellers and friends. They aren't easy to come by here in Australia eithed