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you must have a faulty pup! ill take it off your hands for you since it aint gonna do anything for you jkjk i had a a cutting take over 2 months to root...by then though it made 2 pitchers and 3 leaves
Alex
schloaty,
I took a cutting from my N. campanulata by mistake thinking that the stem was turning brown. I used pure perlite, allowing the water level to drop before topping up to 50% again. The cutting rooted in less than 3 weeks, under florescent lighting for 12 hours each day.
yeah I think neps can absorb water through there leaves so if it had leaves and noi roots it could still get water if it was humid. plus cps get therte nutrient frominsects not the soil so a nep cutting pitchering before forming roots isnt that bizzare.
Neg. Neps absorb nutrients quite well through their roots (though better through the pitchers). Their soils are usually deficient in essential nutrients, but can be quite high in trace nutrients like magnesium, etc. There are also ultrapotassic ultramafic rocks, which I wouldn't be surprised if neps grew in those, since they are usually found with "normal" ultramafic rock IIRC.
Well I guess if you can get something into the pitchers like a very weak hydroponics fertilizer since it contains alot of macros and micros complete for plant growth if you ph adjusted the fertilizer and use a 10% strengh ..
Phission if you think this is stupid me
I don't know if adjusting pH would be necessary. JLAP used to put diluted terracycle directly into the pitchers, and I sometimes put Oscomote pellets (which have micro/macro IIRC) directly into the pitchers. If you try that, you should be careful not to do it too often. I'd say wait at least a week, preferably more between feeding pitchers on the same plant. Also, you should wait at least a week before feeding a pitcher the first time after it opens up. I don't feed the same pitcher w/ Osmocote more than once.
As I've said before, neps take up nutrients best in this order: pitchers > roots > leaves.
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