Thursday, January 21, 2016

Nepenthes Bio-Dome 'Lady Luck'

These Borneo Exotics Bio-domes started showing up at a few local garden centers here. I had been wanting to order a 'Lady Luck' from one of the various online retailers, so finding these down the street from my house before I had a chance to do that was an awesome surprise. I hope the wholesaler that picked these up continues to do so with all the bio-dome cultivars, (so I bought a few for myself and a friend to encourage and support this.) Plus, impulse buying a Nepenthes in person is one of the best things ever.





OOPS. Didn't read instructions.


Just kidding, mine was already busting out of the dome, not that I need it's help growing it here anyway. However, the Bio-dome system is actually pretty cool and really inventive for people that don't already know how to grow Nepenthes. Knowing next to nothing about Nepenthes, you could still grow one of these in a window or on a desk with good enough light for quite some time before having to eventually pot them up. It's fairly fool proof easy too, there's instructions all over the packaging and Borneo Exotics have also set up a FAQ website for the newer growers too. It's a very cool way to spread growing Nepenthes to the masses!

Now for those of us that have established preferences in regards to media, location, etc. maybe you'll break it out of the dome like I did as soon as you get one too. 

Only tiny pitchers at the moment to show, but larger ones will come.



Oh, and the one I bought for a friend that wanted just a single plant comes in the most adorable packaging ever.



There's a bow on that one excited looking cartoon pitcher. The mean looking one that's been Borneo Exotics' "mascot" for a long time looks like something currently alive is stuck inside it, which I've always thought of as funny, in more of a macabre kind of way. Adorable packaging, love it.

Anyone else growing one of these? Now that they're available online in the USA, and reaching local stores I figure there's got to be quite a few of you out there. I'll be growing mine in more lowland conditions, and that should be just fine for it. I'd also be interested to see if it will grow just as well in a wide range of growing conditions as claimed though, and can't experiment here unfortunately.

4 comments:

  1. Wow, Never seen those here! They're surely attracting kids to pick them up :')

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Yeah, I was super surprised to see them here too. I have no doubt that it'll attract kids (and hopefully adults too) to try and grow a Nepenthes, and that's a great thing!

      Delete
  2. I bought the exact same one up here in New York. I also ripped it right out of the dome and stuck it into some LFS/Perlite haha. It is doing fine and sending out more leaves and pitchers. Good luck!

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Hey Rich, that's awesome to hear they're showing up in stores in NY too! Now if we could only get the wholesalers to also pick up Borneo Exotics N. 'Suki' Bio-dome as well, it's a raff x sib and it's really nice looking. Good luck with yours as well, but I doubt you need it as it should do great with you!

      Delete