>>
>> 3) I have read that if I take cuttings off upper growth, all growth
>> thereafter will be upper growth as well. Makes sense. But I have also
>> heard that there is a way to get them to produce lower pitchers again.
>> Will the axilarry buds on upper growth produce lower pitchers?
>
>Hello all,
>
>I have a couple questions that are been nagging me about Nepenthes.
>
>1) Nearly all Nepenthes have lower and then upper pitchers. Is
>the production of upper pitchers a sign of maturity like when
>citrus stop making thorns? Or can plants with only lower
>pitchers flower if large enough?
>
>2) Do some species produce only lower pitcher? The reason I ask is
>because I have what looks to be a N. ventricosa but it has never
>pitchered. It doesn't really grow like a vine but instead grows
>straight up. The tendrils have the begins of pitchers but they
>just curl down. It is growing with other Nep's, some of which are
>N. ventricosa, all of them pitchering except N. x rubra bois(some-
>thing I can't spell) so I doubt it's the environment. Is this the
>upper growth of a plant or is something wrong?
>
>Thank-you,
>Dave Evans
Hi Dave, My ventricosa will not pitcher unless I keep it very humid and
cool, (not over 75 degrees F, preferably 60-70 dgress F). It likes a little
sun, but not the warmth.
John Phillips
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