Post by gj on Apr 22, 2020 9:24:14 GMT -5
This plant has really been the embodiment of the expression "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing." When I first got it, dennisz had mentioned that I could treat it like an orchid, so I potted it in a plastic pot that I'd driled some holes in for airflow, and used a mix of lfs and orchid bark. I went heavier on the lfs, as I've done with the smaller phals I have around because the house is generally quite dry. It was doing fine, but then I got into this phase of looking up the natural conditions where my plants grow, and decided based on that information I should move it into the grow tent which I am using to maintain essentially lowland conditions (30C during the day, 20C at night, humidity 75%+). Then the plant seemed to go into decline. Each set of leaves was a bit smaller than the last, and it seemed like the slightest touch would knock them off. I didn't want to move it out of the tent again as it was getting rather cool outside of the tent. It got to the point where it had no mature leaves on it. Then I realised, with how high the humidity was in the tent, and the fact that I was just sort of watering it on the schedule I'd been watering it before, the poor little guy was staying way too wet. Given the shape it was in I was worried I'd killed it.
But I noticed there was still some green at the tips where the leaves grow from, so I unpotted it, put a little lfs just at the very bottom, and potted it up with orchid bark the rest of the way up. Then I grabbed some of the moss that had been growing on the NOID Nepenthes I got from bonfield, which I had saved in a separate container after I repotted them, and placed that moss, with the little bit of peat moss that was still attached to it as a sort of top dressing. It seemed like just a couple days later, little leaves started emerging all over it, and actually stayed on the plant, though they were slightly deformed as they grew out:
And today, it looks like it's just a couple weeks a way from forgetting I treated it so poorly in the first place:
But I noticed there was still some green at the tips where the leaves grow from, so I unpotted it, put a little lfs just at the very bottom, and potted it up with orchid bark the rest of the way up. Then I grabbed some of the moss that had been growing on the NOID Nepenthes I got from bonfield, which I had saved in a separate container after I repotted them, and placed that moss, with the little bit of peat moss that was still attached to it as a sort of top dressing. It seemed like just a couple days later, little leaves started emerging all over it, and actually stayed on the plant, though they were slightly deformed as they grew out:
And today, it looks like it's just a couple weeks a way from forgetting I treated it so poorly in the first place:
