bifurcatum: N. rafflesiana

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N. Rafflesiana??
« Thread Started on Mar 17, 2007, 12:35pm » isn it n rafflesiana?
looks like it take from the wild,
the leaf have alot of ugly dappled.
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the leaf is curly.


would this become pitcher?



i got it from my aunt,
she plant it in soil!
i change it into bigger pot and add some c.peat and s.moss only, because the root is very a lot.
it have a long vine now,but no pitchering, should i need to cut them off?
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Re: N. Rafflesiana??
« Reply #1 on Mar 18, 2007, 1:54pm » i agree it look like raff...the pitcher quite slender
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Re: N. Rafflesiana??
« Reply #2 on Mar 19, 2007, 9:14am » It looks like rafflesiana to me too. I have one pot that has the same pitchers as yours.

Can't really say if the pitcher bud you show will turn into a pitcher. It depends on a few factors. For now the pitcher bud looks ok. It is not burnt or turned brown. So there's a chance it will develop into a picther. Sometimes when thee is a change in the environment like shifting it from the nursery to your home etc., it will just give up producing pitcher on that bud.

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« Reply #3 on Mar 22, 2007, 8:08pm » is this the rust spots fungus like David said?



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« Reply #4 on Mar 22, 2007, 10:35pm » Rust Spot fungus looks more like the fourth picture from the top. I think that's just a mild attack. Anyway, nothing to worry about. The plant won't die from it. Just a little unsightly.

If I am not wrong I think your plant also has a little pest problem. Can't really tell from the picture but the second last picture has some fuzzy black dots on the leaves. If so it was caused by a pest that suck on the leave juices just like how a mosquito would bite us. Then a droplet of the sap accumulates at the spot where the pest suck on. That black fuzzy stuff is fungus that grows on the sap.

Just can't remember the name of that pest.

Sometimes ants farm these pest on the plant to obtain the fungus as food.

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Re: N. Rafflesiana??
« Reply #5 on Mar 23, 2007, 2:33pm » i found that there are some bugs(red colour) on the stem, but only a few.