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Old 28th June 2009, 08:16 PM
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Default experiment fertilizer in nepenthes

Hi guy,
I hear a lot of grower fertilizer nepenthes so I started to fertilizer nepenthes and flytrap seeding. And went I visited BE gallery I saw something interesting. Guess what is this.



( This picture origin from BE http://www.borneoexotics.com/aspx/nursery.aspx ).

And this is my experiment:
Flytrap seeding which one is fertilizer ? Do you know ?


Nepenthes Ventrata


Some information:
Fertilizer type: Fish Emulsion ( 1/3 streng I will try to experiment more )
Light 50%
Humid: around 50 - 70%.

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Old 28th June 2009, 09:34 PM
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Default Re: Nepenthes Fertilizer

Hi Minh,
You have eyes of an eagle...

Those are slow release fertilizer like Osmocote or etc. I've been using them with no ill effect to the neps. Other fertilizer like fish emulsion and seaweed extract can be use if diluted, like what you have done.

From my personal experience, if you apply the fertilizer on the media, it will eventually get mushy, slimy and smelly caused by the growth of algae or blue green algae. If you spray it, you'll less likely to encounter the same problem.

According to some, the fertilizer can be more effective if apply to the root zone compare to foliar application. I guess you can experiment on that... Good luck and thanks for sharing your results.
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Haa, haa... that also you can spot, all those small slow release fertilisers on BE's plants.
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Old 29th June 2009, 10:49 AM
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Hi,
The flytrap which more trap have fertilizer. So fertilizer effect in root make the root grow more than the not fertilizer ( experiment with nepenthes the plant with the leaf smaller don't have enough root ) and the plant was fertilizer root grow more. I will take a picture of the root .
lol I spent time to watch picture of CPs for how they grow only a few thing in picture can make me find some thing new.
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