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Somebody asked in the POTM thread how I grow my campy but I saw the post too late to reply in the said thread... So here's the growing conditions of my plant. It's grown in a fish tank partly covered with saran wrap. So it is a humid condition, with intermediate to warm temperature range (16 to 25 degrees in winter and 28-32 degrees in summer).
The small tank gets 26W of lighting provided by compact fluorescent lamps (13W Phillips 865, i.e. 6500K). The lamps are turned on for 16 h each day.
The potting medium is mostly dried sphagnum with live sphagnum topdressing, and I also inserted some live sphagnum around the inner sides of the transparent pot. With time the live sphagnum covers the sides of the pot nicely. I wait until the sphagnum is almost dry before watering and never let it become too wet.
I do not fertilize but feed the plant regularly with fish pellets. Under these conditions my campy has grown really well and very prolific too. I've recently cut all but the largest basal and there are now new basals ready to fill the place.
My only campy hybrid that is presentable right now, funny enough it's been growing in the paper towel I received it in for the past 5 months. Today the paper towel broke so I decided it was time to pot up finally
Wow, everyones plants look so great! This has to be my favorite Nepenthes species, can't wait until I have conditions that are suitable for one ... About how tall do/can they get? they seem rather compact/rosett growing, is this true?
In brief 3 months, it has slowly edged its way to become one of my favorites
I find that the pitchers are sturdier and longer lasting than N. campanulata, even the young pitchers are thicker-walled than the mature pitchers of my campanulata. Surprisingly, it appears to be more heat tolerant than my campys. In these respects, this hybrid is a definite improvement from its campanulata parent. I'm looking forward to see it mature.
Here's a group shot with my two campys. (My young all-green campanulata is painfully slow to grow...)
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