Re: Cephalotus
John Taylor [The Banshee] (rphjt@minyos.xx.rmit.OZ.AU)
Fri, 23 Jul 93 09:13:21 +0000
>The meeting was a profitable one for me - I got several new plants. :-)
> I finally got a Cephalotis! OK, it's just a seedling - but it is a
>Cephalotis. Can someone tell me how long I can expect to wait for adult
>pitchers? I think the plant is about a month or two old.
It could be a while, I think the plant tends to be a bit slow growing and will
produce "immature" pitchers until it decides to produce the "adult" pitchers.
My advice would be to pot it up in a largish pot (5" maybe), avoiding any root
disturbance to the plant, and just leave it to grow (not forgetting to water
it of course). It could be a year or two before it produces adult pitchers...
(I'm guessing a bit here)
I'm trying this technique out on a newly acquired Ceph, after growing them
for some years in a combined "tray". The earlier plants grew very well until
they were disturbed by repotting - they haven't been the same since...
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