My "monster" n. ventricosa cutting

BigCarnivourKid

It's been one of dem days

• Oct 9, 2004

• #1

About a year ago I was transplanting some of my ventricosas into deeper pots. One of them had a small basal shoot that was going to be buried several inches so I decided to cut it off and on a whim tried to root it.

This was the cutting then

and this is the cutting today

The point is, don't give up on a cutting without at least trying to see if it will take. You never know, these crazy plants fool the best of us.

 

Tony Paroubek

• Oct 9, 2004

• #2

Hey it's nearly doubled in size! hehe

 

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Kirkscoastalcarnivores

• Oct 9, 2004

• #3

seems to have addapted quite well

 

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Phyrex

• Oct 9, 2004

• #4

Do the plants really catch anything at all with those small pitchers by the way?
They seems kinda pointless to me...

 

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Seandew

• Oct 9, 2004

• #5

[b said:

Quote[/b] (Phyrex @ Oct. 10 2004,9:07)]Do the plants really catch anything at all with those small pitchers by the way?
They seems kinda pointless to me...  

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They've gotta start somewhere.

 

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TheAlphaWolf

• Oct 10, 2004

• #6

sure they do. they catch tiny arthropods and stuff. you should see life through a microscope... it's awsome. a world of things you've never even imagined. rotifers, ciliates, hydra, daphnia, ostrocods, mites, springtails, diatoms, desimids, cyanobacteria,
aaaaahhhh.... the wonders of nature

 

jimscott

Tropical Fish Enthusiast

• Oct 10, 2004

• #7

Good growing, Steve!

 

cool85k5

• Oct 10, 2004

• #8

Nice mini nep you have there.Lol

Jerry

 

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pond boy

• Oct 10, 2004

• #9

Thats cool! It was so tiny and now is a nice what looks like a 2 year or so seedling. Congrats! I have also grown a vft from one of the little bumps that grows off of the leaf cuttings,and it grew into a nice plantlet.