Re: in vitro first sprout
IMHO, its just not economically worth the investment in creating a setup to germinate nepenthes seeds in vitro because fungal/bacterial contamination is bound to occur while replating (changing media in flasks due to runout of nutrients) and after deflasking anyway. In fact, flask-grown seedlings are more difficult to establish once out of flasks (I'm speaking for orchids, which are similar) because of the drastic environment change (~99% humidity to much lower) and also change of medium. If germinate directly on moss, the seedlings wold have already sent out roots into the sphag and can be transplanted with less shock.
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