How do you know when to repot a ceph?

[amare]

I bought this lovely plant almost exactly a year ago on a visit to California Carnivores. I planted it in an open glass cylinder with a piece of screen on the bottom inside another glass container, in a mixture of sand and peat. It seems to love its south facing window and has been growing really well. I was just reading on CP Jungle about their root structure and dislike of being root bound. I got to wondering how long I'll be able to keep the plant in its current pot. How often do you re-pot your Cephs and how do you tell when it's time? I don't see any roots on the side of the glass cylinder, but if the root grows straight down I don't think I would see anything until it was quite root bound.

[Aidan]

The plant looks happy and healthy as is and should remain that way in the existing pot for quite some time. Having said that, the plant is of a size where it could easily be moved on to a pot an inch or two larger. Bigger pots = bigger plants!

[amare]

Thank you for the reassurance! I think I'll leave it in that pot for a little longer. and do a grand reshuffling of all my plants when I re-pot it.

[jesser]

Dec 24, 2010 2:27:06 GMT amare said:

It seems to love its south facing window and has been growing really well.

I've purchased mine about nine months ago and kept the pot outside the house on a southwest facing sunny terrace near Hamburg, Germany, from mid May until End of November. The plant was total green originally and got nice red coloration with lower temperatures in autumn.

Dec 24, 2010 2:27:06 GMT amare said:

I got to wondering how long I'll be able to keep the plant in its current pot. How often do you re-pot your Cephs and how do you tell when it's time?

I recently repotted the plant from the original round pot into a square pot after two pitchers were starting to grow hanging outside the old pot.

Now the pot is placed in the cellar for overwintering under artificial lighting (just two 1W power LEDs, one white and one red, 12h photoperiod).

I have read on the Internet, that Cephalotus plants may become victims of a "Cephalotus Sudden Death Syndrome" when the plants are kept at too high temperatures for too long. So I looked up the natural climate information at worldweather.wmo.int/185/c00356.htm and try to keep the plant not warmer than it is used to. Besides of that I took some leaves for leaf propagation and now have a few little ones as well.

This photo shows my plant how it looks under the current LED lighting, it looks a bit more red than it actual is because of the additional red LED: