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« Thread Started on Apr 11, 2007, 2:25pm » I bought this from Fauzi
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So did this plant looks healthy??
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« Reply #1 on Apr 11, 2007, 3:15pm » I think they are normal. WAH! your Truncata is HUGH!!!

Envy, when is mine going to reach that size?

Hey i got another question. how come your Truncata grow that height?? Short.
Mine is small but tall. the direction between the leave and the soil is so close. mine got around 8 cm different « Last Edit: Apr 11, 2007, 3:17pm by 3sgjeffery »Link to Post - Back to Top 166.121.36.12 bifurcatum
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« Reply #2 on Apr 11, 2007, 4:16pm » I also not very sure, . Just received it yesterday.
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« Reply #3 on Apr 11, 2007, 4:33pm » Nice big plant with a huge pitcher. Nice juicy, lusious peristome too.

Jeff, you can repot into a bigger pot and place the plant deeper in the media. Also when you place them in a bigger pot they grow bigger. Anyway, I realised my neps have growth season. At a certain point in their life, they would suddenly have a growth spurt. After that growth is very slow.

For my plants, usually when I do the following, it will encourage a sudden growth:

- repot into fresh new soil
- feed them with crikets
- They are getting more sun during the hot months
- For those in my terrarium, when I change to new lighting
- change the water source I use to water them. Only works if change to better quality water
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« Reply #4 on Apr 11, 2007, 4:35pm » Most of the time it works when i starve them of insects for a couple of months and then feed them during the hot sunny months.
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« Reply #5 on Apr 11, 2007, 4:38pm » "repot into fresh new soil" isn't mean change all the soil into new soil?
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« Reply #6 on Apr 11, 2007, 5:16pm » Means throw out what's in the pot and get new stuff. You could do the mix which has almost everything in it. 1:1:1:1:1:1:1:1 Peat:Dried Sphagnum:Perlite:Washed Sand:Vermiculite:Washed Coco Peat:Crushed Pumice:Orchid Bark. And whatever else you could think of that they grow well in haha. I personally would just use a mix or Peat Moss:Dried Sphagnum:Perlite:Washed Sand:Vermiculite. Because I know where to get all that. Something that will hold water but is well drained so roots wont rot.
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« Reply #7 on Apr 11, 2007, 9:48pm » The N.truncata was sent potted as I do not want to disturb the root of which I have just repotted the plant 1 month ago. Media used were sphagnum moss, pine wood shaving and perlite.Sphagnum moss as topping to provide humidity to the plant. The coconut fibre was used during packaging to hold the media during shipment. You can take out the coconut fibre and left the sphagnum moss as topping. The media used will not hold water and base on my experience it will dry faster compare to the 100% usage of sphagnum moss.

I do not know why it took 4-5 days for poslaju to deliver the package (Friday to Tuesday) because most of the time it took only 2 days delivery from Malesiana - Kuching to KL by poslaju.

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« Reply #8 on Apr 12, 2007, 3:04pm » Because Sunday was public holiday in Johor
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« Reply #9 on Apr 19, 2007, 2:09am » Wow David, I could never feed my plants crickets, Id feel too cruel You certainly pay more attention to your Nepenthes than I do: my ancient mixta x maxima, which Ive had since my 13th birthday, has been in the corner of the greenhouse for over a year and one of the stems is now nearly as tall as I am!(Im 5'9) It hasnt pitchered for ages, but now that Ive humidified my greenhouse last week and got the tropical section going, its now got 2 big lowland pitchers growing and I think one HIGHLAND pitcher aswell Theres an embryo which looks like its growing, currently its bigger and stronger then all the rest. Il take a picture of it when all the pitchers mature. I might repot it into fresh soil aswell, it hasnt had a reppoting for well over 2 years now.
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« Reply #10 on Apr 19, 2007, 9:05am » Well Cosmo, I have no choice. Most of my plants are with me in my apartment and there isn't much insects for them to capture. However, feeding your nepenthes makes the plant more robust and the leaves are greener. Same goes for my Sundews. They grow bigger much faster when I feed them.

Happy that your mixta x maxima is pitchering for you. Do you mean lower and upper pitchers rather than "lowland" and "Highland" pitcher?

Hey, don't be so stingy will ya. Show us picture of your greenhouse. We can learn your layout. « Last Edit: Apr 19, 2007, 9:06am by David »Link to Post - Back to Top LoggedMy Wantlist cosmoking
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« Reply #11 on Apr 19, 2007, 6:22pm » Oh yes sorry, I mean lower and upper

In the greenhouse the plants may catch some things but certainly not that much. Theres still a colony of ants in there(I discovered a massive colony in one of my pots of Cymbidium Orchids, and after trying to get rid of them and their nest for over an hour theres still some there) so the Neps could feed on those via the lower pitchers, as they would be catching primarily ants and other ground crawling things in the wild through their lower pitchers.

Sure David, I will take some pics
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« Reply #12 on Apr 19, 2007, 8:18pm » For you guys information, beside I let my neps alone for catching their own food, I fed them with fish food too, hehe. I started a month ago, so far so good.
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« Reply #13 on Apr 19, 2007, 10:28pm »
Quote:For you guys information, beside I let my neps alone for catching their own food, I fed them with fish food too, hehe. I started a month ago, so far so good.

That is an interesting idea TS. The plants like it? Maybe I can use fish food as well instead of crikets. Sometimes the smell of rotting crikets ain't so nice in a small apartment.

Anyway, what type of fish food you use? What are the ingredients in the fish food?
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« Reply #14 on Apr 19, 2007, 11:42pm » I used the TetraBits-complete food, abit expansive I know, I feed my fish and CPs including Neps & Sarras. I've never try those cheaper type, I find it a bit hard for fish. Maybe should try the medium range one.
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« Reply #15 on Apr 20, 2007, 12:17am » wahh, tetrabits? is it the one that smells more like dried shrimp? wanna make your neps' color brighter? hehe
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« Reply #16 on Apr 20, 2007, 9:20am » If it is dried shrimps, that's good as the calcium from the shrimps is helpful to the plant.


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« Reply #17 on Apr 20, 2007, 12:20pm » It smells fishy, maybe it will enhance the colour, who knows, yet to observe. It's not that I purposely buy the expansive one to feed my CPs, I just try out what I have in hand.
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« Reply #18 on Apr 20, 2007, 2:40pm »
Quote:It smells fishy, maybe it will enhance the colour, who knows, yet to observe. It's not that I purposely buy the expansive one to feed my CPs, I just try out what I have in hand.

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Ooh, i see.. its just that i was once fell in love with aquarium fish too the fish food, which are for color enhancement i used for my neon tetras and discus are a bit expensive, and smells like dried shrimp. Cant remember the brand, but it is either made in Japan or Taiwan..
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« Reply #19 on Apr 24, 2007, 2:19pm » Why my Truncata new leaf is brown colour and have red spots?
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« Reply #20 on Apr 24, 2007, 9:46pm » Hi Bifurcatum,

The leaf most pobably has been infected by insect - a small yellowish insect of which I have yet to know the name. It sucked the sap of the young leaf leaving red spot on the leaf.

1 week prior to shipment of the plant to you, I have sprayed the plant with insecticide - Malathion. Normally for every treatment I will spray them 3 times on a 10 days intervals. Should the insect still exist on the leaf you can spray it once again with Malathion ( dilution : 1ml / 2 liter water). Malathion is consider a more active insecticide compare to Cypermethrin (0.05) of which works on other insect.

From my experience, N.truncata and N.fusca are most prone to this kind of attack.

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« Reply #21 on Apr 25, 2007, 1:21pm » THANKS
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« Reply #22 on May 10, 2007, 6:31pm » I've heard somewhere that reddish coloration on Neps leaves may also be due to very intense sunlight.

I have 2 kinds of truncata: the green and red peristom:




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« Reply #23 on May 10, 2007, 6:46pm » Wow!
You have nice Truncata
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« Reply #24 on May 10, 2007, 7:58pm » Gee, I didn`t know there were 2 types...i`m not really into all Neps, just a few `chosen` varieties N.truncata is one of my fav Nep variety...I`ll go look for the green peristome one now.......
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« Reply #25 on May 10, 2007, 9:30pm » Truncata seems harder to grow. All sorts of probs @_@
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« Reply #26 on May 10, 2007, 9:38pm » I think, most of the Truncata that have problems are the MT clones..
My Truncata: when a new leaf has produce a pitcher, the older pitcher will tend to dry up.. so, at most, my Truncata will have only 2-3 pitchers at a time..
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