When CP's grow flowers in cultivation they often slow production of other parts of the plant.

Does anyone have any direct experience with Heliamphoras flowering to answer this question? The plant I am talking about is the one on the left in the terrarium below.

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This is currently my favorite plant, and I am a bit concerned that after prolifically producing pitchers, it has totally stopped making pitchers during the 3-month flowering process.

nice plant, and your nep back there is looking good too. I don't have a heliamphora but i heard one guy say that if it has already started to bloom than you have to let it go through the flowering process, I'm not exactly the expert on sun pitchers though.

Hegory: Good eyes to pick out the Nepenthes. The Nep leaves take on a nice red color under the fluorescent lights. Here's a better look at the Nepenthes under the fluorescent lights along with a couple of Cephs that are thriving. My Cephs had always died before, but the fluorescent lights seem to be the answer.

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is the one off to the side ventricosa "hot lips"? I have a ventrata and a ventricosa, i don't know what variety the ventricosa is since it only had uppers on it when i bought it but after some trimming of the big climbing stems its dormant nodes burst into life i might post some pix when the lower pitchers forming get big, i also have a drosera capensis and a serracenia, the serracenia is a mysterey to, it looks like a purpurea x flava exept that it has more characteristics like a rubra.
nice job with the celphs, and is the big nepenthes a macfarlanei? also how much did that light cost? i heard they're real expensive.

Hegory,
The lights and set up were pretty cheap. About $20 for the fish tank that holds the lights up and keeps higher humidity for the heliamphora plants. About $15-20 for 2 shop light fixtures from Home Depot, and maybe $5/each for the four 48 inch 40 watt cool white fluorescent bulbs. And a timer for about $6 to turn the lights on and off each day at a specific time.

The Nep on the far right is called Red Leopard and I think the Nep on the rear left is a Sanguinea - If anyone can confirm this, I'd appreciate it. I got both of these from Sarracenia Northwest.

The little Nep in the middle with dark pitchers is of unique ancestry. It is a specific cross from Borneo Exotics between an N. Truncata with huge black pitchers called the King of Spades and another N. Truncata with huge red pitchers called the Queen of Hearts. I got it as a tiny seedling, and it's been growing quickly - It is fun to watch as the traps develop toward their adult form.

awesome dude, that nep in the middle is known for producing some of the biggest, most beautiful pitchers of the genus, its nice to know that the lights are that cheap, i'll probably get some and grow my plants in it. now that i think about those plants are red leopard and sangiunea. how long have you had the lights? and are they working well?

I have the lights for about 9 months. I saw the set up on a Sarracenia Northwest DVD, and went right out to the pet store and hardware store to get supplies and set one up. Some of the indoor CPs that I didn't have much success with on my windowsill have really thrived under the lights. I'm really enjoying it.

yeah i checked em out at the store the other day and there surprisingly cheap, i have a twenty gallon terrerium and i'm thinking of growing my neps in it.