When it is late in the day and when one is tired, it is best not to perform any vital operation, which I did. I forgot to do something so vital - to fill up the pitchers of my Nepenthes after potting them up! Look at the pic below - all the dried up pitchers which have been cut from the plants... We must not leave the pitchers empty and to prevent them from drying up, we need to fill them to a level that is halfway of a pitcher!
I bought three more pitcher plants on the first day of the Singapre Garden Festival. The very reasonably priced baby plants arrived at the NParks Plant Shop early in the morning and were quickly snapped up by eager aunties and enthusiastic youngsters from GCS. The three plants I got were - top left, N. ventricosa; bottom left, N. muluensis x lowii and bottom right, N. truncata. Pardon me for the fuzzy picture. The blur was brought about by the high humidity which caused the walls of the tank to fog up.
The Nepenthes ventricosa I got has the largest pitchers to date!
Nepenthes muluensis x lowii is a highland plant. Bought it as it has dark red pitchers and wanted to gamble on it to see if it can be grown in my light garden where the temperature is always below 30 deg C. Once it shows any signs of deterioration, I will bring it to my lab's pantry where the environment is air-conditioned. I am not optimistic though.
Nepenthes truncata is an odd one out of the ones I got. The leaves of this plant are roughly heart-shaped as pointed out by Cindy. It is a slow-growing plant though. Unfortunately, I accidentally torn one of the pitchers while potting it up... Argh! How clumsy!
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