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Seems like i've finally found my soil mix. Although I cannot get hold of just sand , I bought a mix of peat moss, perlite and sand mix. Sad but still happy From FTS! I will see what I can do with the mix when it reaches my hands

3rd purchase from FTS.

Big box

Thank you matt for the fast send out



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There is 1 Drosera I keep in my office, it's growing very slow. While the other tokaiensis has grow very big, I given many away.

While all the others were green, this particular one remains small and to the point of ....RED!

Drosera Tokaiensis

Try some leaf cuttings and see if they also stay red, since your seeding conditions seem not so good, cuttings should be the best.

Coline, this tokaiensis is red because it's a few inches away from 3000k light. I don't think the left cutting will remains red.

I love Cephalotus, beautiful and yet sensitive, slow growth and yet amazing!

So I thought I share some photos of a little time piece of my ceph here.

09 April 1236hrs


13 April 1329hrs


13 April 1353hrs


20 April 1419hrs


20 April 1534hrs


01 May 2142hrs

They look great! Thanks for posting the photos. And I agree that Cephalotus are amazing.

I just would really love to live 400m higher to have cooler temps to have them doing great (or well, have some space at my high house to have some there!)

Matt thanks. Im really happy this pot have the best growth over the other 2 clones pot of the same plant.

Coline perhaps some artifical enviroment? Green house?

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That is expensive and not ecological, I don't do that

Probably get another cephalotus from another location?

Anyway higher location and colder temperature afffects coloration?

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Precisely, that is why people always have red heliamphoras and I have green ones.
At higher elevations you get more sunlight but lower temperatures, so that makes a supossed higher photosinthetic rate, but as the temperatures are lower, that rate cannot go up with the sun uptake, and that ends up on the need in the plants to make anthocianins to protect themselves against too much sun, other protections involve a thicker cuticle to filter sunlight.
And this means, that, I having a little less sunlight, but higher temperatures, plants that live in colder places would need more sunlight to compensate the higher metabolism, and as that is not possible due to genetic regulations, they become green as trying to get as much sun as possible to try to have the balance they had in a mountain.
Some plants die due to stress on the process by not being able to addapt to the fast rate of growth needed.
Summary: in cold+less light→red obtained in heat+much more light→red obtained or death and heat=more growth cold=slower growth

I have personally and 3º personally see and heard it. VFT plants just 300m above my house get red and really nice, clumpy as any tropical VFT, but they do grow really nicely. D. capensis is 1/3 bigger and so with tokaiensis, N. ventricosa grows faster (weird, maybe the less stress it has). And some say they even have had VFT seed formation.

Wow Coline,

I didn't know that, I just heard from another forum about colder temp gives ceph a change in color too. Seems like my place and your place are not ideal to get nice coloration. Coz here is so hot!

Precisely

Here's couple of photos I've taken for the month of May.

Cephalotus




D. Brevifolia




D. Paleacea ssp. Roseana


DM. Bohemian Garnet


DM. Wacky Trap


DM. Pink Venus, looks like it was in dormant when it arrived, a new trap has grown after a couple of weeks.


Typical VFT, looks like a ghost fish or some kinda Cp'tian hook's hook