Hello all:
Again with the questions, It seems that every time i go to a wal mart or Lowes I happend to end up in there nursery looking for Carnivours plants to see what they have.
Recently I happedn to fall up a Walmart with a huge garden center ( for those Central Floridians on rt.535 off of hwy 192. Its funny cause i went straight into there graden center like a bug gets attracted by Nepenthes LOL, as soon as I enter to the right on the floor there were about 5 full grown to mediue size Nepenthes Miranda and cocciena by the lable at one point there were pots that had both plants growing out one single pot.
After further inspection alomost all the pitchers of the planjts where either beat up with transpotation or they had not water at all aned the pitchers where dying up.
I specifcally pick out one pot that had btoth palnts in it and there leaves where all green with minimal damage and both plants had one good pitcher either beign develope or alreadey develop. The larges nepenthes mirands there had apitcher of at least 6 inchers in l;each almost compleatly dried up I thought to my self God if I only would of known there were here I could of saved them LOL.
I ended up purshacing the nicest pot with both plants in them. I took them home and proceeded to divide them as theere mediwum was compleatly dry. I repoted them with the following one part vermiculite, one part perlite, one part peat moss, and one part orchid bark each of them sit now in there own hangging pot and I mist them every day with distilled water.
My question is in ragrds to the pitchers that are dried up righ now should I cut them off?? and where should I snip it at? Should i cut off the entire tendril where the dry pitcher is at or should I cut it closer to the pitcher area.
Im also planing of using 30-10-10 orchid Fertilizer as i have read in the the book Savage Garden by peter damato that is beneficial to nephentes for foliage growth and not blooom growth. If any one has use it the orchid fertilizer can you give me instructions on how to mix it in a gallon of distilled water.
Thanx again
lleopardggecko
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