The address for Lee's Botanical Gardens is PO Box 669, LaBelle, FL
33935. He sent me a price list too. The prices for Nepenthes are very
high. There's no discount anymore for buying more than one plant of
Nepenthes. There's quite a few hybrid Nepenthes with names I've never
heard before. Davin tells me plants of N. ampullaria "red" are going
for $150 from some outfit! Sarracenia are 24 for $40 if you allow them
to send their choice (from a list of 10 species). I'm thinking about
buying these and potting them up into 10" pots and selling them
wholesale to garden centers around here.
>Also available are Cephalotus plants; $10 for small, $15 for medium,
>and $20 for large.
>
>Don, where can you get Hormex rooting powder? I've had decent success
>rooting Nepenthes with rootone, but am always looking to try something
>new. Do you use sphagnum for your cuttings' medium?
>
I got Hormex from Mellingers (2310 W. South Range Rd., North Lima, OH
44452-9731, phone: 1-800-321-7444). I bought it last year in a package
of three of the strongest concentrations. I'm trying the strongest one
(#45) for a bunch of sections from old woody Nepenthes vines with no
leaves. I haven't had much luck in rooting these. I just use peat moss
to root the cuttings. After soaking, squeeze the peat moss as hard as
you can until it doesn't drip water. I just put a bunch of cuttings,
about 20 into 8" pots. Seal them up with baggies with a small hole
poked into the bag for air exchange and put them under lights. They
shouldn't need to be watered for 3 months. When you open the baggie to
check if it needs watering, resist the temptation to poke around in the
peat moss looking for roots. After another 2-3 months, they should be
rooted - repot them individually into 3"-4" pots, keep baggies over them
for another 2-3 months (repotting will probably damage some roots and
they need to recover from the shock) and then they should be producing
their first pitchers.
-- Don Burden New Albany, Indiana USA al423@cleveland.freenet.edu