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Nepenthes robcantleyi (formerly known as Black Truncata)

  • #81
Apolo Ohno cultivar?

hehehehehe
:p
 
  • #82
I think one of mine is coming out of the propagation chamber and into the low humidity high light of my main grow rack.
Wish me luck.
I'll update in a month or so.
 
  • #83
dvg: that's great, a belly button! I hope mine keep their little ties into adulthood.

Oh, and I just looked again - the pot is 3", not 2.5". That baby sure does grow fast!
 
  • #84
Thanks to all for sharing their plants. It will certainly be interesting to watch, as they mature. Here's a couple pics taken today:

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Cheers,
kpg
 
  • #85
WOw!! those are very nice Kpg. Mine are starting to put out some nice pitchers. I'll get some pics later tomorrow. :)
 
  • #86
Hooray! After many months of waiting for the weather to warm up. I finally received my Truncatas!

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PS: I'm never buying anything but New Zealand LFS. This crap sucks!

The bag should read:
Contents: Grass clippings; twigs; leaf particles; sphagnum bits; dirt.

On the plus side. I guess I don't need to get any bark for a while. I think I have 1/2 a bag of it in my sphagnum moss.
 
  • #87
Mosser lee brand? That stuff is crap! But it's cheap and the plants don't seem to mind the extra "roughage"!
 
  • #88
aaawww! they're so cute! :p these pics are making me angry, lol. I want one of these so badly now!
 
  • #89
Yes! How did you know? :)

That's good to hear. I did wash it thouroughly a few times to try to get the dirt out. The water was a very dirty brown each time.
 
  • #90
Mosser lee is junk. The one bag I bought should have read: grass clippings, twigs, leaf bits.

Aww, and your babies are cute :-D
 
  • #91
I have been keeping my little nep outside in my enclosed patio down here in SFL. It is kept in a 'critter carrier' surrounded by sphagum moss to keep humidity high; it gets direct sunlight for about 5 hours thru the patio screen; and I put the lid on at night after spraying to keep the humidity high. I have kept it outside even when the temps have dropped to the 50's at night. I currently have 4 small green pitchers on it. I will be interested to see how it responds to the lowland conditions once summer arrives here. So I guess right now, I am treating it as an intermediate!
 
  • #92
My truncata is finally showing some color. I guess the pitchers weren't large enough before. These were taken today.
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  • #93
Here's my latest coloring up
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...and the whole plant in 3" pot
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I get the feeling I got one of the more robust growers (either that or they like San Diego weather?)
 
  • #94
thez_yo said:
I get the feeling I got one of the more robust growers (either that or they like San Diego weather?)
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OMG, sooo... what's your secret? Coffee treatments every day? :0o:

Wow! Now that's a really nice specimen, Thez_yo!
 
  • #95
Hehe...thanks!

It's gotten one coffee treatment since I got it (didn't seem to do anything for it unlike the other neps though), and a mix that's half coco husk chunks that flytrapshop sells and half chilean lfs, water once a week, 4ish hours direct sunshine through a window from ~1:45-6pm this time of year (like 2 hours in the winter, oops), and humidity that's somewhere between 30%-80% LOL. As for temps, about 5ish degrees warmer during the day and 10ish degrees warmer at night than coastal San Diego. Also helps that it got a head-start from Tony, and that it sits in a tray with friends like N.jacq, N.flava, and N.macro (to mock them that they don't make nice pitchers for me). :-))

I think I've fed it once on some snail eggs I found outside on a snail buried in my onions...
 
  • #96
I've honestly tried as long as I could to not look at this thread, I knew from the BE photo's they'd be breathtakingly gorgeous but who knew they'd grow wicked fast too! Is it weird that I find them cute?

Sigh. One day...
 
  • #97
They are pretty cute...I was contemplating getting another because I see the ones in this country haven't all be snapped up yet and because mine's doing so well. Of course, 5 years from now they'd *both* be big huge Nepenthes truncata bushes!
 
  • #98
Yeah I'm planning on a Truncata/Truncata hybrid in my near future to see what the fuss is about. How manageble can the plant be in size if I religiously prune it or will I have to give it away when it gets too big?
 
  • #99
Chris_Himself said:
Yeah I'm planning on a Truncata/Truncata hybrid in my near future to see what the fuss is about. How manageble can the plant be in size if I religiously prune it or will I have to give it away when it gets too big?
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You can't really do much to prune them, the leaves get the size of a dinnerplate anyway. I have a Pasian that is 2ft across in my window, my mom has one that is about a foot under lights, and I'm getting one of the black ones very soon. I love truncatas. :-O
 
  • #100
I think I'm just going to grow it out for like a year until I have to give it to somebody here. I just think they're beautiful and I love the comical leaf shape. I love all neps really.

Yeah but seriously beautiful plants guys. You guys are lucky!
 
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