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just to share with everyone, if space was your problem...mount the neps on fern barks or woody branches wrapped with sphagnum moss. sometimes neps were found in the wild to grow on moss pads of tree trunks and branches, with little nutrients except on incoming wind laden with moitsure, thus my idea of replication.

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Good work.Mr.Robert.I have tried with some neps overgrowing ferns with their thick roots but so far fine.After sometime,the whole pot will be full of fern roots mixed with nep roots..

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Thanks for sharing Robert, was thiking of growing veitchii by sticking it on a tree branch... but I like your method because is more "mobile" *biggrin2*

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haha, my nepenthes gracilis also grow like that, but i was growing it with a bird nest fern, it got a lot of roots which sucks a lot of water, and could provide shade for it, so far it growing so well,and my nepenthes did got a lot of babies growing at the base....

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Wow....but how do you repot it??

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if plant like that, i will never think of report them, because all of the media was organic to it, and it's size will getting larger and larger, which means more free space for them....this is what i thought...haha

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Wow, that's a good idea!

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Thanks for sharing this idea, Robert!! I have one fusca x veitchii and a spare fern bark chunk, will tie together this week and post some updates here too!! :smile:

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That is an awesome idea;the roots continually grow, which is the soil xD but doesnt that mean you would have to watch the roots like a hawk to see if its damp? eh, Ill stick to vermiculite, no mold or rot, and doesnt compact as much as wet sphagnum. i would still try and pick a good sized mound of roots, because, in my experience with vigorous species like sanguinea, there roots will actually get quite bigger and more extensive than other species=)

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How well i can keep, will see how it goes. So far so good . I fine mist it in the morning, noon, evening and keep it under cool shade with indirect sunlight.

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This works mostly with the highland epiphytic species, but not so much for the lowland species such as N. bical, N. raff, or even N. mirabilis which all have extensive root systems and seem to do better in wet growing conditions. Just my 2 cents. ;) - Rich

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It's true

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This evening while watering noticed there was a visitor resting on the sphg.moss. It was hanged 1.5 metre above, and strange how it managed to find such an excellent spot among others:smile:

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Wow...maybe it fall from the sky and managed to hang on it, haha
if not, u will see "salt fish", haha

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Will truncatas work on them?

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it will

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Can get a step by step instructions on planting them on that?:biggrin:

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Marvin,
it was simple. you need a piece of wood or fern bark, lay some sphagnum moss on it and the neps, finally tie with strings.

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OH okay...gonna find some wood..

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Robert,you frog still ok cause sitting on top of the moss.My frogs dig inside moss.I was repotting one of my nep pot and i felt something like plastic bag.So,i pulled it.I was suprised it was a frog.In a short while,it uses it's back leg to dig inside and soon dissapeared.I went on to check few of my bigger pots and all of them have 1 frog each.Wonder if got any advantages/disadvantages of having a frog inside nep pot?

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Hi Alien, they are harmless and only need temporary refuge during the day. They will be out in the evening and may jump back to the same pot unless they found new shelter. I also found inbetween the pots a pair of toad with smaller ones (likely their babies). They hunt for insects don't they, they should be left alone:smile:

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Well, frogs should benefit nepenthes with excrement. I found a frog resting in a half dried miranda pitcher at a nursery :smile:

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Ya,they are harmless i guess.Just worried they disturb the rooting and also bring some organic material into the pot through urine etc...So far just left them alone.

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2 latest formed pitchers, but tiny, nevertheless the whole plant look healthy. The fern growing much faser. Its roots have to be trim off else growing into and entangling neighbouring orchids.

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Good the see the progress, will try it out. :smile: