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How come the lid didn't open more?

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vraev

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Hi,

Guys check this out, my bical. This pitcher is the first pitcher that came with the plant

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By vraev at 2007-05-19

Now this pitcher completed in a couple of weeks and finished to :

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Now the second pitcher was in bud stage when I got it:

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Now the finished pitcher has remained like this:

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Now I have a third pitcher on a leaf that formed from start to finish after I got the plant. The pitcher is at the end of finishing. The lid just opened. But, I am wondering WHY the second one didn't open like the first one? what determines how far the lid opens?

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any ideas guys?

cheers,

varun

 
Humidity or stress maybe?

xvart.
 
but by the time the pitcher opened...it was like more than a month since I got the plant. And you can notice that infact the pitcher I got with the plant finished opening completely.

ALSO, I notice sometimes that the liquid kinda disappears from the pitcher. Is it getting absorbed or evaporated? does it need refilling? I always do becos i don't want pitchers to dry up.
 
nah it doesnt really need refilling, that could be indicitaive oh the relative humidity though. pitchers retain their fluid when adequate humidity is present.
 
Mine do this too, however, I just lift the lid open more with my finger and that seems to work lol.
 
its a mystery ... aint it neci ? ;) We obviously water our plants and give decent humidity or the bical wouldn't bother pitchering.

guys....I am sooo hyped about the newest pitcher that is forming. It is finally getting into the RIGHT pose as the lid is still going up BUT THE FANGS are coming down.. Oh man! it loooks awsome. I hope it stays ok when I move day after tomorrow. :(

Guys....any suggestions for moving? to prevent loss of leaves or pitchers?


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excuse the plastic. I do not want to manually disturb the pitcher and the leaf by moving it around ... so I took it from outside the enclousure. :p
 
I am so happy to see your N.bicalcarata more and more perfectly.:-D
They are very sensitive with humidity. so...
please, as far as possible don't touch the baby pitcher with your hand.

and this is my cute N.bicalcarata. hope you will like it.:blush:
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/97999575@N00/562397026/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1377/562397026_56ef69b3e9_o.jpg" width="410" height="580" alt="N.bicalcarata" /></a>
 
thanks dude. wow..that looks perfect buddy. Mine was meant to be a red bical. But doesn't look like it. :( fI guess the guy who sold it to me mistook it for his orange-yellow one. :(

well...anyways..I am happy to even get a bical. SO I'm good.

I am planning on doing a careful trip OF MY neps ALONE. Basically I will bag the pots and take them as soon as possible and as fast as possible... setup the enclousure and put them in.
 
You know, I keep hearing that bicals are so sensetive to humidty.

Mine has grown and pitchered rather well between 55 and 70 percent humidty most of the time. Occasionally it goes lower, slightly more often it goes higher, and the average is probably somewhere in the high 50's low 60's.

As long as you keep the humidity over 55, the biggest factor, I have found (granted, one plant does not a pattern make) is light.

As for why that second pitcher is a little odd, I would have to aggree on the stress idea. Neps take several months to recover fully from moves. That pitcher was in the middle of formation durring the most stress, so you're lucky it openned at all! Often they'll just abort that pitcher, and you're left with a half-formed pitcher on one leaf until it eventually withers.
 
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yeah...another thing is that the plant is getting insanely huge. Every leaf is a few inches bigger than the older one. I have it in a 8 inch pot. The leaf span is already around 25 inches or so. I am finding that bicals tend to put out very small pitchers in proportion to their leaf span. Is this normal?
 
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