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Post by sykosarah on Feb 26, 2014 22:55:44 GMT
Pitcher plants do seem to like to eat a lot more than other CPs; I have never heard of over feeding being an issue for them. Now Venus flytraps on the other hand...
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Post by adelea on Feb 27, 2014 1:15:44 GMT
I have over fed my nepenthes, if you feed a trap to much at once it rots from the base of the pitcher up (goes black), and this was still within its enzyme levels, but I think this has to do with what food, because I have never had a plant over feed on flies or crickets, only lizards (expecially geckos for me) and fish food pellets. I should also add I tried this out, it was not an accident, except the geckos that do it themselves.
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Post by arh on Feb 27, 2014 16:47:37 GMT
I have a n. alata that is producing a basal and is still going full steam ahead. It's way bigger than the "problem" plants I had that were doing the same though. I'd say its over a foot across, with at least 20 leaves/ pitchers, where as the others were smaller, and had less than 10 leaves as a plant.
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Post by sykosarah on Feb 27, 2014 16:53:08 GMT
I have over fed my nepenthes, if you feed a trap to much at once it rots from the base of the pitcher up (goes black), and this was still within its enzyme levels, but I think this has to do with what food, because I have never had a plant over feed on flies or crickets, only lizards (expecially geckos for me) and fish food pellets. I should also add I tried this out, it was not an accident, except the geckos that do it themselves. Trying to imagine how lizards are getting in the pitchers...
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Post by adelea on Feb 27, 2014 21:14:48 GMT
Geckos climb everywhere and are small, there is a feral species here (the Asian house gecko) that is in hordes, I think they are attracted to the squirming insects as I have seen them looking in th pitchers before jumping in (presumably after a drowning fly and not as a suicide)
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Post by sykosarah on Feb 28, 2014 15:13:54 GMT
It is kind of funny in a twisted way, that the bugs the pitchers are eating attract bigger prey that wouldn't have been attracted to the natural aroma and coloration of the plant.
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