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[Veek]

Here are some pics from last season from the motherplant from one of my typical clones.  As you can see cephalotus doesn't have to be a special clone to make nice pitchers.   This plant produced the biggest pitchers of last season I am curious to see what it'll do this season.





Enjoy them.

[sojapat]

Very nice plant .. do you feed your cephalotus?

[Richard Bunn]

Wow, I wish mine looked like that.

[Ewoud]

Very nice! The mine are little bit smaller
Do you put them into the full sun or behind a window?

Edited by Ewoud, 27 May 2012 - 14:33 PM.

[Veek]

Nop I don't feed them.  This one I put in my parents garden when the temperatures allow it in Belgium.  They eat whatever they catch theirselves. :-)  I've been thinking about feeding them but I am not sure about how and what.

[Ewoud]

Haha, oke, thx
And the weather in Belgium... Yeah, sometimes strange ;)

[Richard Bunn]

Regarding feeding; I was just going through Peter D'Amato's book The Savage Garden making a note of all the foliar feed details for different genera.  What he says for Cephalotus is spray once a month with full strength orchid fertiliser.  

BUT looking in another section of the book the orchid fertiliser he recommends (in the Darlingtonia entry) has a strength of NPK 20:10:10.  So it must be one with a higher nitrogen level obviously.

I have two orchid fertilisers (funnily enough, for orchids :)) both of them far weaker than this formula.  My Baby Bio one is a quarter strength of the nitrogen level and less of the P & K (which I assume doesn't matter as much, certainly not the K).

I assume I can just quadruple the strength of the dose.  So, my advice is to see what kinds of orchid fertiliser (it has no urea) you can obtain and check the NPK ratio on the label and take it from there.

Edited by Richard Bunn, 27 May 2012 - 15:31 PM.

[Devon.B]

Very nice cephalotus!

[tim c]

Very nice Koen.

[Veek]

Richard Bunn, on 27 May 2012 - 15:21 PM, said:

Regarding feeding; I was just going through Peter D'Amato's book The Savage Garden making a note of all the foliar feed details for different genera.  What he says for Cephalotus is spray once a month with full strength orchid fertiliser.  

BUT looking in another section of the book the orchid fertiliser he recommends (in the Darlingtonia entry) has a strength of NPK 20:10:10.  So it must be one with a higher nitrogen level obviously.

I have two orchid fertilisers (funnily enough, for orchids :)) both of them far weaker than this formula.  My Baby Bio one is a quarter strength of the nitrogen level and less of the P & K (which I assume doesn't matter as much, certainly not the K).

I assume I can just quadruple the strength of the dose.  So, my advice is to see what kinds of orchid fertiliser (it has no urea) you can obtain and check the NPK ratio on the label and take it from there.

I will look into this.  Does anybody has any experience with doing this.  It seems a fairly easy way of feeding.  An other alternitive is handfeeding them some bugs but that is a big job to do.

[Marcus B]

Veek, on 27 May 2012 - 19:49 PM, said:

I will look into this.  Does anybody has any experience with doing this.  It seems a fairly easy way of feeding.  An other alternitive is handfeeding them some bugs but that is a big job to do.

I spray mine with fertilizer made for acid loving plants in a dilute mix.  They seem to respond well.

[WeXi]

Veek what clone is it? its nice big family  of cephalotus  

Edited by WeXi, 02 June 2012 - 22:53 PM.

[Veek]

Marcus B, on 27 May 2012 - 23:34 PM, said:

I spray mine with fertilizer made for acid loving plants in a dilute mix.  They seem to respond well.

I think I'll go experiment a little with orchid fertilizer. Curious to see how it'll go.


@Wexi: this clone I bought several years ago from Marc Verdyck and was my first Cephalotus.  It also make my biggest pitchers.  I don't think you got this one from me yet.

[WeXi]

still do not have it . looks amazing but a nice big pitchers
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