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Ceph roots

Cindy

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I got the plant in early September so it is about two months. The shoot coming out from the rhizome is new and the plant has quite a lot of roots! ^_^

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Put the roots back in! :-)) Seriously, I once accidently severed part of the adult plant while trying to pull a winterleaf. I placed the severed part in live LFS and it became a new plant.
 
That looks wonderful. Yesterday I was closing my window blinds, and the blind fell down and hit a cephalotus pot on my shelf. The whole pot flew off the table and fell onto the floor, and the cephalotus separated from its media. It looks like I don't have any roots at all but have grown on this plants that came a month or two ago. I think it's time for me to start getting overzealous in my attempts to make them grow faster. Your photographs are very good looking and rigorous plants. I just leave them be without any additional support. Maybe it's time I start to pamper and baby them.
 
I should try to grow a ceph,but I am afriad of it suddenly croaking.
If it check the plant daily and water accordingly will I be able to keep one for a long time?
 
I should try to grow a ceph,but I am afraid of it suddenly croaking.
If it check the plant daily and water accordingly will I be able to keep one for a long time?
 
jm82792: Grow grow grow. There's nothing that will help you learn to grow them, like giving it a good try.

Cindy: Looking very good. What temperatures do you grow them in?
 
Joseph, I have them in 80-90F. Humidity is rather high lately, around 60-80%.
 
Looking good.

They don't like their roots disturbing though - put it back!
 
The plant is on the way to its new owner! :)
 
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Okay well sometime when I get a little more confedent;
well I can grow nepenthes okay so I think I could apply that with carefull watering it may just work.....................
 
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very very nice cindy. But personally, i wouldn't unpot a ceph if I don't have to. it takes more than a month to kick back sometimes and till then it just stays as usual green + no growth. It eats you up inside wondering if the plant is ok or not. :p lol!

but lol!...when I repotted, I snapped off soo many of those thin roots. At the end I was like "F*** it! I am doing a hard repot and just pulled the plant clean of all media around its roots. All that was left was a little carrot like end to the root with tiny hairs. Thats it. But I guess the plant responded to the better new conditions and took off in like a month or so. :)
 
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jm82792,
I don't think watering is a issue as long as the media used is loose. I am using different media for potting the Cephs. And I water them every 1-2 days. I used to think that they need to be treated like N. ampullaria. Having lost many to root rot, I am now treating them like intermediate/highland Neps. Regular flushing with water, with a fast draining mix.

I am not confident at all about growing them because the few successes are only with small TC plants. This plant is a 2-3 year old cutting and it lost 30% of its oldest leaves and pitchers within a week of being potted. It was quite ugly looking but it recovered within a month. I would definitely encourage you to try growing Cephs again.


vraev,
When the plants came, they only have the rhizome with none of those thin roots. So I am very encouraged by the amount of roots produced in 2 months. The plant started growing only about 2-3 weeks back. I have a couple of others in the same batch which are doing equally well. If I didn't have to send the plant bareroot to its new owner, I wouldn't know that they are capable of producing some much roots within such a short time. :)
 
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gotcha! :)
 
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