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I wish I could find a picture of when i got it.. it had 1 dying leaf... I really didn't expect it to come back! I'll keep looking. Thanks for the sugestion.. i'll look into a bigger pot
Mine is slowly creeping along. It was doing fairly well but now it seems that the growth point is damaged somehow; at least the edges where the leaf will uncurl from is not crisp, if that makes any sense. It's still pretty small by comparison, though.
btw Andrew what soil mix are you using? I use like 70% wood, 30% peat, and a touch of perlite. I hear adding crushed coral makes this species go zoooooooooooooooooom (and with bigger pitchers)...but I've never tried it myself
Well, I've had it for under a year... It's gone from the one dying leaf to what you see above. If it could grow better than that... It'd surely be the fastest acclimating and growing nep I've had.
Perhaps when I up the pot size.. I'll use something more airy for the surrounding media. I doubt I'm going to take the current media off of the roots though. I'll have to see what it looks like in there before I decide.
Andrew, I have all my vikings in LFS and perlite. Standing in 1" of water until the level drops totally before I top it up again. I treat them like N. mirabilis.
But being in pure lowland conditions helps, I suppose. The humidity, the heat etc.
Hmm...then you'll just have to wait out. Some of my vikings take a while before pitchering. Oh, I also noticed that pitchering is seasonal because I grow them at my balcony. When the weather is cooler and gloomy, they lose nearly all their pitchers! They are at their best during the hottest months here.
Here's my N. Viking. Believe it or not, it grows in straight highland conditions, down to the low 50s at night. It took a few months, and some encouragement from fertilizing, but once it decided it was home, it really took off. This grows right next to N. macrophylla!
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