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Flight of the Quantum Butterfly

Hey guys,

I wanted to make a thread showing how a Nepenthes can suddenly make a quantum leap in leaf size.

Shown below is my N. truncata 'Pasian Highland', growing in a five inch pot. It had been growing steadily since I got it in April, but this newest leaf has just about jumped out of the pot. And it kinda looks like a big ol' green butterfly. Hence the title.;)

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Awesome! My highland red and highland green have both jumped up in size recently, but yours seems to have made much more dramatic gains. Good job.
~Joe
 
Holy large, Batman!
 
woah, no kidding when you told me it was 5x bigger :p at this rate you'll be able to fit the whole plant inside that monster-sized pitcher that'll produce.
 
oh damn.
 
*whistles* Man, I hope mine does something like that one day. Very nice plant.
 
Holy crap! LOL.

You took the words straight out of my mouth, which won't close. My jaw just hit the floor, too.




I have had such a leap in size from an N. sanguinea, the leaves grew twice as long after some coffee sessions. ;)
 
Thanks guys. I did a double take too when I saw that leaf.
 
  • #10
Very awesome!
 
  • #12
My Nepenthes truncata (Pasian) did something similar to yours a few years back. What is more, you are likely to see a doubling and tripling in the size of the pitchers over the course of perhaps a single season. When the first mature pitchers struck, they were about 10cm or so; and, by the end of the year, it was common to see 30 cm (12") pitchers. It remains one of my favorite species.

Congratulations . . .

Nepenthes truncata (Pasian Highland)
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  • #13
You took the words straight out of my mouth, which won't close. My jaw just hit the floor, too.




I have had such a leap in size from an N. sanguinea, the leaves grew twice as long after some coffee sessions. ;)

x2 for me.
 
  • #14
Thanks guys,

Big Bella, nice looking truncata there, and helis as well.

Just curious, but have you ever had problems uploading pics of your unopened truncata's with any of the imaging sites. The reason I ask, is that not too long ago, a fellow on this forum had mentioned that an imaging site had removed images of his unopened truncata that he had posted. Apparently the photo uploading site had deemed the images as being inappropriate. I find it amusing that the photo uploading site would bestow upon itself the moral authority to define and legislate Nep porn.
 
  • #15
Mess with the tendril so the pitcher forms right under the plant, then see if you can pot the plant in its own pitcher!
 
  • #16
Thanks guys,

Big Bella, nice looking truncata there, and helis as well.

Just curious, but have you ever had problems uploading pics of your unopened truncata's with any of the imaging sites. The reason I ask, is that not too long ago, a fellow on this forum had mentioned that an imaging site had removed images of his unopened truncata that he had posted. Apparently the photo uploading site had deemed the images as being inappropriate. I find it amusing that the photo uploading site would bestow upon itself the moral authority to define and legislate Nep porn.

Thanks . . .


That fellow with the uploading problems was me. I uploaded them three times and the last was the charm. Here are the offending photos (remove any children from the room).

Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa . . .


Nepenthes trucata (Pasian Highland)
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  • #17
Wow!!

I've read that truncata sometimes can do this, but still that is quite a jump in size. My specimens have only made marginal size gains with each new leaf, so far.

Regards,

Christer
 
  • #18
Yeah Christer, I'm not sure why it jumped in size like that. I didn't use a regular orchid or epiphytic fertizer on it. I did give it one coffee treatment, and released live flightless fruit flies on the soil surface. They ended up finding their way into the pitchers. I also recall feeding it a moth.

BigBella, I must be missing something here. Maybe I'm not as worldly as the censors at that imaging site, because I really don't see anything offensive or inappropriate in the two photos above. It could just be that some repressed people have too much time on their hands.;)

But I do really like the backside view of the unfurling truncata's peristome. Very nice!
 
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