Re: Nepenthes pitcher fluid

Perry Malouf (pmalouf@access.digex.net)
Thu, 12 Sep 1996 13:09:54 -0400 (EDT)

Chris Frazier wrote:

> ....in a few cases where I took pitcher fluid out of the pitchers
> of N. trichocarpa or N. gracilis the pitchers did not fill up again,
> but rather dried out and died very quickly. Has anybody else observed
> this phenomenon? Or the opposite...

I have not observed this directly but have heard it from other
growers. Pitchers that are emptied of fluid sometimes fill up again
if "stimulated", i.e. if a writhing bug is dropped into the
dry pitcher.

Perry Malouf