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I missed out on a large N. veitchii 'Batu Lawi' in the NASC auction - I knew I couldn't pay more than $100 on one plant (now I know better - or worse! ). Quick, SK, grow it big and give us some eye-candy!
SK, from what I remember: It had about a 16" leafspan, and the only pitchers it had were dried up. The largest was 4" tall, if I remember correctly - but my memory is foggy, lol. I don't remember seeing any intact peristomes, but the pitcher bottoms were yellow. Probably not as hairy as this variant, though. Looked kinda like it has a somewhat lowlander veitchii morphology compared to this one, too.
My humidity nowadays runs at around 30-50%; I keep the windows closed because it gets too cold outside now - so there's not as much humidity fluctuation or temperature drop as before, either.
...Actually, it had a mite infestation. I just threw the whole plant and media after I confirmed it was mites (the orange-red microscopic dots were getting larger and spreading). I figured it was easier just to do that than to buy some pesticide for one plant, and risk giving the mites time to spread to my other plants (my N. veitchii, N. hamata, and N. glabrata were actually the closest to the N. densiflora).
No worries, Mr. Truncata. I'm thinking that the N. densiflora might have had them before you even got it, especially if you got it from a certain vendor...
None of my plants are showing signs of pests, so all is well. At least now I know what to look out for.
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