Cephalotus follicularis - The Australian Pitcher Plant
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- Hey plant people,
I had to share the strange beauty of Cephalotus follicularis with you all! They are another fascinating carnivorous plant we love growing here at Redleaf Exotics. Endemic to Southwestern Australia, this genus experiences a Mediterranean climate with warm, dry summers and cool, moist winters. Although there is only one species in the genus, there are many cultivars in cultivation. We grow these right along side our Heliamphora and Nepenthes in a very well-draining medium consisting of long fiber sphagnum moss and perlite, topped with an inch or two of pumice. Our ceps love the extra drainage! We take care not to have water hanging around the crown. They can rot if they are kept too moist! We don’t give our plants dormancy and they seem to be just fine. Although they can handle an occasional frost, temperatures between 50-80F are best.
Thanks All!
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Loving the background for this episode
:) thank you!
More commonly called The West Australian Pitcher Plant, as there are nepenthese that are native to North Queensland (along with New Guginea), with N. Mirabilis being one.
only missing piece to my collection
There's some on etsy
@@beartoe08 very hard to acquire in my country...there are some but literally minutes to hours after it gets posted sold almost immediately
@@TrapTherapy did you get one?
What country are you living in?
@@Psychonaut999 philippines, never got one tho. But friends of mine got one and they managed to cultivate them here
@@TrapTherapy awesome! I will get one this weekend. Fingers crossed you will get yours!
Brian back at it with the bangin vid
Yes😎🥰
Nice presentation. I haven't found it difficult at all (except for one long stubborn mite infestation) but I agree that drainage is key. People grow Cephalotus in lots of different substrates. I use 60:40 medium perlite to peat, some grow in more pumice, or peat/sand mixtures, while others grow in pure sphagnum, but good drainage, often with tall pots ensuring that the root zone doesn't stay waterlogged, seems to be the common element throughout for those who succeed.
If the plants aren't flowering, a cooler winter could definitely be what will trigger it.
What a happy guy 👦:)
I just potted mine in peat&perlite, a change from the lfs that it came in when I first bought it. I have plants in peat and perlite that keep drying out so I'm hoping it's going to be a way better substrate than the lfs because I think my cephalotus is too wet. Because it keeps going in cycles where it grows and then dies over and over and I can't get it to get big. But it's a step up because before this one I couldn't even keep them alive past the first month of purchase! And I have had this one for three years and even propagated it! Now if only I can make it get bigger I will be so excited!
I want one of these but I don't think I'm experienced enough for these guys.
5:29 That collection 😍
I mistreated mine with fungicide... it has stopped growing for over a months now, but no sign of rotting or deteriorating
Hi, Love your channel and your plants! I had a question, for the terra cotta pots you are using for the cephalotus, are they pots with a hole at the bottom or sealed off pots?
Random, I just purchased a "n. tenuidon x n. tenuis" from your website...what is n. Tenuidon? I cannot find it anywhere 😫
Cephalotus is really a cool plant and a must have and im still getting a budget to buy one. May I ask? Does Cephalotus is hard to flower or produce seeds? I dont see someone selling seeds in that particular kind of pitcher plant
Hi there, if you still need the Cephalotus mine is flowering and I don't really have use of the seeds. I'll send them to you for free if you cover the shipping costs, if you'd like!
@@Simon-xj8hc really 😍 thank you sure(also sorry because I just saw your reply today so I apologize if u waited for me to reply)
@@Unknown-jd8qo No problem! Can I get your email? I'll send over some pictures if you want and we can exchange information there! :)
@@Unknown-jd8qo Or some other way of communication. It's all fine by me. I think it will flower in 1-2 weeks or so.
@@Simon-xj8hc sorry I had some weird bugs in my app so I dont know if I get replied comments. Its cliffmcthunder@gmail.com
Finally thank you sooo much. I live in Myanmar and I ordered a juvenile cephalotus from Bangkok and when it came, it came in a very good condition but the next morning when I check it shriveled up and died, what happened?
Could happened cause of several reasons: e.g. cause of a shock caused by the transport. Cephalotus sp. hate high temperatures, the temp shouldn't exceed 28 or max 30°C for more than a few days. If the temperature rises constantly over 26°C, a reduction in temperature at night is very very important. At least under 20°C.
As in the video mentioned, well drained substrate is essential for the roots.
If u repot a Cephalotus sp., it's very important that the temperatures are as low as possible. After a repot or after a transport, Cephalotus sp. are very stressed and need more cool conditions to recover.
Another reason why your Cephalotus sp. shriveled could be - have u refilled the pitchers after u received it? Same like with nepenthes, just refill the pitchers with rain or distilled water.
Cheers.
@@AtraxJoe thank u so much
@@kyawthuta9058
U're welcome, no worries 😉.
Usually, these plants are grown in the extremely high humidity of greenhouses and will
Shrivel up if their new home has lower humidity. If the plant had high humidity, it shouldn’t have dried up. Or maybe it really just hated shipping. Sorry:/
@@redleafexotics4722 thanks dominic
So you have the medium 50/50 moss on bottom and pumice on top? Do you plant it right into just the pumice or is it mixed w moss as well?
Do you have yours sitting in water as well?
The only plants I leave sitting in water are small Divisions until root in. Even they have pumice for extra sharp Drainage:)
I can't seem to make either the VFT or the picture plant well 😥 The ones I have have come from a local greenhouse. As soon as the weather warms up a little here in Maine I'm going to order one from you!
Use distilled water
Which pitcher plant? There is like 5 different pitcher plants
I use to grow them in Maine it gets to cold for Venus fly traps I used to do fridge dormancy idk what type of pitcher plant your talking about there’s like 5 different types of them of them
Where is that shirt from? 🤩
hey, i know, 2 years old video ;p
but does somebody know sth against the white stuff on it? not fungus (schimmel in german), but i had him outside for 1-2 weeks, have shadow, but it started raining for days, so i got him inside.
bright, warm window no thx and more in the shadow no thx. less water no thx and more, than it has the wet feet a bit.... i dont know whats wrong or what else i can do ^^
I grow mine in miracle grow soil they seem to be growing just fine with some crushed perlite.
how long have you been growing them in miracle grow? That’s usually a huge no-go for carnivores species.
If it works! Ha
@@redleafexotics4722 it does work
Yeah i grow them in it but i take out all the fertilizers in it and just add crushed perlite and it work's because its peatmoss.
When i fist had them wich was a year ago i gave them the miracle grow mix which was a miracle and my cephalotus grew just fine and im not even an expert they very easy to grow.
Bagaimana cara agar kantong semar bisa berkantong besar..?
Hard to find. Everybody is sold out except the way overpriced one on etsy
We just had some on our site and have more growing out. They were as low as $35.
In Spain they are usually sold at 12€-18€ for example. But you are right they are quite difficult to find!