Had a pretty good season down here in Southern California. But my purp is starting to slow and my Neps will soon follow as the days get shorter, cooler, and drier. Before fall rolls around, I just wanted to share some of the highlights from the last year!
- My 13-year-old Sarracenia purpurea back in May. It definitely appreciated the repot (see the remnants of the previous year's growth crushed towards the soil level) and the veins were just starting to color up from the sunshine. It'll probably be due for another repot next year at this rate.
- My Nepenthes robcantleyi finally put out a decently sized pitcher about a week ago. I love this plant and I finally got my hands on one last year but it certainly has lived up to its reputation for being a slow-growing plant. So far, the leaves seem to take about two months to go from fresh shoot to pitcher fully developed. My plant tends to put out pitchers that are already fairly dark upon opening, which is nice.
- N. sanguinea drooling everywhere. Very fast-growing and hardy plant.
- A very large lower from my female Nepenthes truncata x spectabilis. This chick is also the last of my old Nep collection that I maintained from high school right up until I started grad school. I bought her at a SoCal plant show directly from the Predatory Plants stall as a tiny seedling but now, it crowds my wife's orchids out with its vigorous, scrambling vining habit. Very vigorous grower and extremely beautiful pitchers. Maybe my rob will flower male and I can try to cook something up at home.
by JSTORRobinhood
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Gorgeous purp! Is that a Michigan locale?
Dang all I did was trim back more and more dead leafs😭