Re: Hello CP friends!
Welcome to the forum Powersensor! Sounds like the CP's have hooked another one. You are free to join us in our "CP addict self-help/support group" here. We've all admitted to our addictions!
I think you're right on the 'mixta' but others here are much better at IDing than me. The N. albomarginata is a really nice red-pitchered form. I have a couple of them too. Mine seem to be really slow to respond positively and fairly quick to respond negatively to their location. Almost all neps, IMHO, resent being moved (unless they are unhappy in the first place) but my albo's seem to take months to show they are happy. I'm only guessing with my apporoach, but I have most my albo's pots sitting in water trays filled to their rims with tiny pebbles. The pots are pushed down into the pebbles so that the bottom 1/4" of the pot is in the water. So far they seem real happy. I think it best to make sure your mix is very 'open' with lots of perlite or volcanice pummice, etc mixed in so it doesn't get water logged. I have a another type of N. albomarginata that I keep in a couple 2" deep tables in which I layed capillary matting (Like aquarium filter material) down and keep filled with an inch of water, the plants sitting in pots on top of the mat suck up what they need. This (and the tray method) seem to help with my low humidity problems, which really adversly effect 'pitchering'. Anyway, good luck and now that you're addicted, its a good time to start looking for more nearby land!
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