About the Finn in the other end of the cable

Friday, August 26, 2011

Seeds arrived

Today I received seeds of Drosera sessifolia with a location of Chapada dos Guimaraes, Brazil. Thanks to VChr!

Thursday, August 25, 2011

New ping cuttings

Cuttings of Pinguicula emarginata x (moranensis x ehlersiae) arrived today thanks to Nokkahiiri!

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

The BIG photo update!

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Starts with Pinguicula emarginata

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Followed by other Pinguicula such as Pinguicula laueana

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Pinguicula esseriana. So far the loveliest Pinguicula that I grow.

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Seedlings of Pinguicula lusitanica

Continuing with other plants of Lentibulariaceae family. Such as...

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Utricularia livida

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The blue flowered form of Utricularia livida

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Utricularia uniflora

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seedgrown Utricularia calycifida from Gran Sabana, Venezuela

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Utricularia sandersonii

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Utricularia pubescens

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Utricularia alpina is growing new leaves at the same time

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It's root are growing out of the pot much sooner than I predicted

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Genlisea violacea from Grao Mogol, Brazil.

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Genlisea lobata x violacea

After So many plants from Lentibulariaceae family some pitchers.

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Nepenthes ampullaria 'Brunei Red' x 'Harlequin'

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Newest pitcher is only a bit smaller than those which plant had when it came to me. This pitcher is about 5 cm(2") high.

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Nepenthes veitchii 'Golden Perisome' from Bario, Malaysia. The slowest growing Nepenthes that I own.

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Nepenthes rafflesiana made it's largest pitcher so far. pitcher is 7 cm(2,7") high

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Who said that Finland is cold all year rounf. During summer we can even grow Nepenthes x Ventrata outdoors. Pitcher is about 10 cm(4") high and is producing so much nectar that some of it drains on the floor. Plant has been growing outdoors since June.

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Cephalotus follicularis baby plant received from CZ plants is showing some signs of growth.

Then my favourite plants. The sundews.
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Starting with Drosera intermedia from Gran Sabana, Venezuela

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Followed by Drosera adelae

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Drosera spatulata var. lovellae 'Bloody Red'

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From left to right Drosera capensis normal form and Drosera capensis red form.

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Drosera aliceae

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Young Drosera madagascariensis

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Drosera neocaledonica slowly recovering

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Drosera binata is vigorous psecies for me. Making tens of new leaves at the same time and even 2 flowerstalks.

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Drosera paradoxa has grown longer leaves since I got it

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Drosera burmannii is growing a flowerstalk

Thanks for reading my blog. Happy growing!

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

+ 1000 pageviews! Thank you!

Hi everybody. Thanks for over one thousand pageviews! I didn't guess that my blog would achieve this much pageviews in this time and traffic from so many countries.

In this week I saw some of the most beautiful displays of Pinguicula that I've ever seen. Click here to look at the pics. Those top 6 pictures in that forum post are totally amazing.

To celebrate this ammount of pageviews I will make a big, Big, BIG picture update to next blog post.

Thank you for viewing my blog.

+ If anyone is interested, I'm selling seeds of D. intermedia Gran Sabana, Venezuela with a price of 3,10€ including 20 seeds, shipping and paypal fees.
For details email me at kihokki01[at]gmail.com
Shipping only in EU!

Saturday, August 06, 2011

New plants identified

Hello. One small update about my new sarras. They have now been identified as S. x stevensii and S. x catesbaei x purpurea. Thanks for everyone who helped me identifying these plants.

Friday, August 05, 2011

New Sarracenia

Today I bought 2 new north American pitcher plants. Here both plants together
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Sarracenia purpurea? Maybe Sarracenia purpurea subsp. venosa var. montana or Sarracenia purpurea subsp. venosa var. burkii if I'm not totally wrong.
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Sarracenia hybrid including Sarracenia leucophylla. Maybe S. x readii(/S. x farnhamii) or possibly S. x moorei
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Please post a comment if I'm wrong.

Happy growing!