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Arg! What happened? Do you have a michievous pet?
As long as your growth points weren't disturbed, I doubt this will really effect the growth of the plant.
</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (schloaty @ Sep. 10 2003,4:12)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Arg! What happened? Do you have a michievous pet?
As long as your growth points weren't disturbed, I doubt this will really effect the growth of the plant.[/QUOTE]<span id='postcolor'>
Hi
Well I have three cats, but I don't think it was them
More likely the centre of gravity as the stem is starting to lean
Will be repotting it into a heavier pot. Sure it will be fine, but it always seems its the latest growth that always gets the damage
Yup I know all about plant accidents but so far they've both turned out OK for me.
First I was in a rush doing some watering and knocked the lid of my lowland tank into the tank which beheaded my N. bicalcarata but it didn't set it back more than a month as it had luckily sheared off just the next two leaves. Miraculously the growing tip ws still there and unharmed.
Then next time I bumped my N. inermis and knocked it off it's hanger. I noticed that after a year it had almost no roots so I cut off the rootless stem, replanted in fresh LFS and some living moss around the bare stem. Now it's pitchering and growing faster than ever!
Just doctor it up where needed and put it back to the conditions it was in when it was florishing and it should be just fine.
I will be pulling for you and I know how you feel. I dropped my small N. campanulata about 4 feet to the floor. Luckely it landed on the bottom and didn't break it off. However, it had just started to pitcher and has gone back to its stressed state.
Good luck, I am sure it will be ok. They are tough in most cases.
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