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Post by meateater on Jul 1, 2016 13:06:00 GMT -5
Biggest pitcher on my ventricosa (?) is roughly the size of my hand, but newer pitchers are only half to 2/3 of my biggest pitcher. How do you get pitchers at max size constantly?
(I have no idea what the max size is for my plant but so far, biggest seems to be ~6")
PS. How to make them grow bigger pitchers? I fed them quite a bit of ants/whatever's eating my squash...
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Post by keeper on Jul 11, 2016 1:11:42 GMT -5
This isn't concrete, so don't base everything on my theory. But in my experience if I want my plant to produce larger pitchers, I wait longer between feelings and it seems to produce larger pitchers. The more I feed it the more nutrients the plant gets and it puts. Pre energy into actual plant growth. If it's eating a lot there is no need for huge pitchers. Again, this is just theory so take it with caution. I've noticed in my own experience this is possible.
There are of course a bunch of other factors such as light, temps, humidity and all that as well.
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Post by Justintime on Jul 11, 2016 21:32:56 GMT -5
Hehehe "feelings" which is true as well neglect to a moderate degree helps as well.
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Post by keeper on Jul 11, 2016 21:33:32 GMT -5
Haha slot of typos here , you get what I'm saying though
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Post by keeper on Jul 11, 2016 21:34:14 GMT -5
Geeez 'slot' of typos. I need to proof read before I click post haha
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Post by meateater on Jul 12, 2016 21:12:05 GMT -5
... Google mentioned keeping it hungry but... for real?! I can hear my pitchers growling... So the interesting thing is, while I fed quite a bit of bugs to it, the new growth "points" don't seem to grow They've been like that for at least two months!
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Post by Dennis Z on Jul 13, 2016 0:57:26 GMT -5
I typically notice that higher humidity helps. My nepenthes in ambient humidity never produces long-lasting large pitchers compared to the ones in my terrarium.
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Post by meateater on Jul 15, 2016 22:09:02 GMT -5
(*sigh*~ Wish I have space for terrarium...) I squirt water on it everyday in hopes it will stop giving me deformed pitchers, which seems to work, but couldn't get big pitchers after spring. Now that I think about it, spring gives me bigger pitchers before I have a chance to feed it, smaller pitchers in summer after feeding. Will stop feeding them from now on to see what happens!
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