Re: Nepenthes Rajah
Robert Allen (Robert.Allen@Eng.Sun.COM)
Mon, 5 Apr 93 13:43:02 PDT
>>I just picked up a Nepenthes Rajah this weekend and was wondering what
>>kinds of experience people on this list have had with them. The plant
>>was raised from Tissue Cultures and imported (legally) into this
>>country. It is remarkably tiny and is the equivilant of 1-2 years
>>old. Right now, I have it in a dark room, 5 inches below 2 fifteen
>>watt growlights. I mist it a couple of times a day and will sprinkle
>>water it about 4 times a week.
>>
>>Is anyone else growing N. Rajah? Has anyone else raised plants from
>>tissue culture like this? It will be several years until the plant is
>>mature and I'd like to do as much as I can to keep it alive.
I believe that Geoff Wong had/has a N. rajah, but when I last
saw it a couple of years ago it was something like 10 years old,
and it looked like it was maybe a third of that, and there were
no pitchers on it. I got the impression that Geoff was having
some problems with it in cultivation, and he's quite a skilled
cultivator. That's about all the knowledge I have on the
species.
R.