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mine has made a bit of a jump since i moved it out in intermediate conditions , and the spotting has almost stopped , im going to move it into even lower light as i suspect the t-5's are burning the leaves where the water droplets sit on them , though this new leaf has very little spotting , I still think it will do well under the t-12 lights,
and man the newest pitcher is even a different shape, its beginning to lengthen , the next leaf and new pitcher starting looks to be bigger yet , sure hope so . this pitcher is about 2 1/8" , I think the lid will open a little more.
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uphwiz,
How did yours get so large?
Fertilizer or coffee?
I'm thinking of fertilizing one of mine.
N. truncata are so slow when small.
It seems when they hit 6" or so they speed up in growth 2 fold.
I have 5 N. truncata. all differn't sizes. one of my favorite Neps.
ive not coffeed this one but am about too, LOL.
it seems so slow but i haven't wanted to push it yet , i have given it a few hikari cichlid pellets the mini ones and in the green pouch , i put them in the pitchers after the pitcher is about a month old.
hey , if i may what are your growiing conditions, light temp humidity, is it on the dry side , mine is doing better with lower humidity , your leaves look great , mine is growing very nicely but i want those leaves , nice growing
Those leaves were produced with the plant very close to a 23 watt compact flourescent light on a windowsill that doesn't get much light. The house was kept around 72 with a/c and the humdity was probably fairly low but I never really tested it. Since I kept the plant so close to the light I'm sure the temperature around the plant was higher than that of the house. Since heading back to school the plant is now under a 40 watt cfl on my dresser but other than that the conditions are pretty much the same. I still keep the plant pretty close to the bulb but since the bulb gets hotter I can't keep it quite as close as I did before. I'll see how it's doing in a month with the new light and make adjustments as necessary.
So I just got my two in the mail and they each have one pitcher. Both pitchers have what seems to be an unusually small lid... have any of you had yours do this? It looks like these are probably the first or second pitcher on both plants so I hope the next pitchers will be a bit better in regards to the lid.
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