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Old 1st November 2009, 08:43 PM
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Default Bad (Root) Hair Day

This is what my gracilis does after being neglected for a long time. Decided to repot it so I knocked it from the pot and all I see is like a case of bad hair day, all knotted and meshed together.
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The plant had started producing a lot of basals with nice brown/red pitchers.
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The view from the bottom of the root ball.
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Strangely, there are knobby nodules on some part of the roots (blue arrow)
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Whereas some of the roots are nice and cylindrical (white arrows).
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More basal shoot
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And finally...in its new home
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The pitchers of this plant - varied from red/brown to red speckled to lemon green with traces of red
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