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I might be posting too many pics, but I had to post these:)
11inch/27.9 cm truncata pitcher.

http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u.../truncata1.jpg

http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u.../truncata3.jpg

http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u.../truncata4.jpg

http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u.../truncata5.jpg

peace,
Zero

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Nice! How old is it by the way?

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It's 4-5 years old. It grows in my windowsill here in Maine, USA.:1thumbup: It was 12F out last night:)

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wow!! wonderful piece.can you show the whole plant ?

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Wow the peristome is so beautiful.What form is it?
I hope it's lowland form though.
Thanx for sharing!;)

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Nice peristome on your truncata there zero. I wonder if it's the same as this one that I am holding...

Attachment 832

Sad to say this is not my plant. :sad:

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Hey Zero, do you ever pour coke into the pitchers to make it grow faster.

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Wow very nice truncata. hope some of my reach soon this size :)
My truncata plants grow very slow, i believe its to cold here in Sweden :)

Jens

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It's nearing the shortest day of the year here and nightime temps are 56F/13C inside where I grow this.
my truncata grow faster as they grow larger. Once you get past that 6-8 inch size they pick up speed in growth:)
more piccys, you can see the 6inch pot in the background. I really need to repot this;)
http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u.../truncata6.jpg

http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u.../truncata7.jpg

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So how many types of truncata are there?Mine dont have wide peristome like in the picture.I have seen some truncata are fat and some are long.

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I'm guessing this is a HL form or maybe a "greenhouse bred" clone from EP?

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cpnut, I don't know the origin of this truncata. I got it from tristans 3-4 years ago.
alienfx there are many seedgrown and cloned types of truncata. They all look differn't.

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Thanks for the whole plant pic. It's doing well and that would suggest the roots are massive and healthy. To repot it's best not to disturb the roots and repotted with all the original media.

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Nice truncata! Mine is still very young.......thanks for sharing!

Cheers

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There are hundreds of different forms of N. truncata! I have 8 plants all grown from seed, and no two are exactly alike, some with wider perisomes, some green, and others more red, some very cylindrical, other wide and squat, and this is only from a single site! There are "highland" (actually intermediate) forms that have a slightly hairy petiole, and may become very dark red in some individual plants. :1thumbup: - Rich

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Huge man..............

Ken

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I like playing fairy-godmother to neglected plants. During my last trip to Cameron Highland back in early august, I 'saved' a good-sized N. truncata for next to nothing. The plant was covered in dust, no pitcher - just the shape of the leaves gives away it's variety. Took it home, gave it a good bath & brushing using sable hair's - it was almost decent looking

After a couple of months, it produced a miniscule pitcher, barely 2" long. The next leaf looks more promising, the pitcher doubling in size weekly. As we were leaving for the long Eid weekend, I noticed that the pitcher was about 4" + the lid has not open yet, there's still hope there :)

When I got back yesterday morning, the lid is just opening, I was too sleepy to measure the size properly, so I just used my palm to eyeball it. Much later, after 2 loads of laundry, I measure my palm.

Surprised, thinking that I must have measured a leaf or something else during the early morning :confused: I took a ruler to the garden. So it's true, I did measure the new pitcher, and it is slightly more than 6" long!

Not bad for a charity case huh!

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Here's a photo of the N. truncata, eventhough the peristome is still not well-formed, I see a lot of potential :)

https://forum.petpitcher.net/pict...&pictureid=445

those are the two pitchers I spoke about before.