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I don't really count species numbers, as things fluctuate here. The greenhouse is just a simple pop-up tent, nothing fancy.

It was perfect...until right at the end there when the storm front dropped temps from 70's to about 40. Glad I'd covered the areas I'd intended to before that rain came in.

@@carltoncarnivores We found that those cloudy warm days with a threat of rain in the distance were the best for milks.

I don't give details about location; only thing I'll say is that most of what I flip has been out on the plains for a very, very long time. But if you live in the Springs, there's little reason to go east to find milks. And the foothills have plenty of rocks and logs to flip.

@@carltoncarnivores ....thanks for the tip....I have been herping the northeast and florida since 1965! but since moving here all I usually see are garter snakes and prairie rattlers...I dont collect...I have a small collection of CBB GTPS....love your videos..keep them coming!

Herping out here is an entirely different field from herping in the humid east; night hiking or cruising while it's still warm is going to be one of the primary ways you see anything, particularly after a midday storm (or, hiking in early morning), and flipping is only really viable either on a cool day after rains or during spring/fall. But there is a lot more variety even just that much further south than where I live, just have to tune your searching to match the habits of the species.

@@carltoncarnivores thanks for the tip...I herped in east kansas and it was great. so much to flip. but around the Springs here it seems there are few rocks and those that are present are half buried in the ground and dont flip and have no room for anything under them,,,,,I have to do more exploring but the fly fishing is so great here I have gotten lazy about herping...in the meanwhile I get to enjoy your videos! keep them coming!

Mine flowered once, and appeared to be developing seedpods but never produced anything from them. Unless you have multiple clones I would assume the difficulty in producing seeds isn't worth the effort, and the plants propagate from pups well enough.

Nothing EP has is thorelii. One of my biggest peeves with them, they have all of these various hybrids with Indochinese things that are a mess of everything BUT thorelii, but can't bother setting the right precedent and properly relabeling what they made now that the true thorelii is in cultivation. But then, argue they have credibility enough to describe new species with fewer differences from already extant taxa than thorelii has from its relatives... If what I'm reading is correct and "D" is what they used to make the Red Dragon grex, it's bokorensis, or a bokorensis x kampotiana hybrid (I consider the former because of how strongly the thick peristome and domed lid come through in its crosses, traits not really seen in kampotiana).

@@carltoncarnivores Well you likely confirmed my suspicions that it is NOT thorelli. I never saw the lower pitchers as I purchased it as a rooted cutting and I always thought the uppers looked more like bokorensis. It is a monster vine, nonetheless, and a female. And regarding the bokorensis x kampotiana hybrids, do you know if the EP "D" is a naturally collected hybrid or did they cross it themselves? Your observations make good sense to me, and I guess, I'll scratch this one off as thorelii and add it to my pyrophytic Nepenthes wants list along with chang, holdenii and kerrii. Would you have any of these for sale?

I don't personally think D is a hybrid, as explained above. And according to Francois Mey, hybrids are relatively rare between Indochinese species in the wild, any of the plants EP have that might be hybrids are more likely to be of artificial origin. And I'm not selling any Indochinese species currently; holdenii is not a species I own either as the one cutting I had failed to root.

@@carltoncarnivores I also respect Francis Mey observations. Thanks!

They grow in that pattern in the wild, and you're only going to see flowers on an adult plant which takes a minimum of several years to achieve. Cultivation does not follow the same rules because there are no strict seasons in a greenhouse unless you make them so.

This was a serpens vid, haven't done one on capensis yet. Doing a regia video would first require them to grow happily for me; half-size and just hanging on won't cut it.

@@carltoncarnivores I don't feel too mbad if YOU have trouble with them too! LOL

Not sure what you're focusing on, but she didn't have any bumps on her.

No.

Possibly but not likely.

You won't be finding any jokes of that sort on this channel.

She's been a repeat offender...as has one of the males that I think is following her around.

Not being offered for sale, and I'm not dealing with export permit hassles.

@@carltoncarnivores I can understand that... it's a "horror". Only seeds (perhaps) are way easier.

Plants may occasionally get fertilizer pellets or dead insects, juvenile plants too small to get a pellet may be given liquid fertilizer, but it's not frequent.

I get some really, really red parietalis near where I live...but I've never seen one that had orange like that one.

Cephalotus has an information file on the website Database, but I have not determined mine to be ready to make a video on.

The bug isn't the subject of the video.

More like dust storm, but that didn't rhyme as well. Kansas, the half-destroyed dirt plate.

It's the kind of habitat I would be perfectly happy living in forever...if it weren't for the chiggers.