Actually, Peter D'Amato has told me in the past that he regularly
fertilizes his Nepenthes during the growing season and they seem
very happy to get it. Interestingly, Nepenthes are also the only
CP I know of that supposedly deal with non-pure tap water just fine.
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>>The plants seemed pretty healthy. He told me that their heater had died
>>in January and the plants had been exposed to ~40 degree F temperatures
My N. ventricosa has dealt with similar temps. It slowed down,
and got some black spots on the leaves, but other than that is
doing ok.
>>for almost a month and a half. I was amazed. Also, most of the
>>Nepenthes were completely unlabelled. I recognized several Maximas
>>and a Ventricosa or two, but couldn't be sure they were not Hybrids.
>>The price blew me away. $25 per plant. And let me repeat, BIG
>>plants. One plant I bought had perhaps 25 pitchers. Well, after
>>examining them carefully, I bought a slew of plants!
I've been to Severins once and bought a single plant (which now
is outgrowing my terrarium). The size of the plants makes it a
good deal if you want to propagate them, as you can get many
cuttings from each plant. The downside is that they know zilch
about ID'ing the plants. Some of the plants do come with
histories as to where they were acquired from, but one can never
be sure. I bought a N. "boissiensis" which I believe is
actually N. X boisiensse (sp?). It was $25.00 too. I repotted
it in pure life spaghnum and have it in a 35 gallon tank growing
horizontally, ith the rest of my crowdedw Nepenthes. It's
already growing out of the larger pot and has 3 growth points, 2
of which are bifurcated. When the weather warms up I'm going to
take some cuttings to root.
r.