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In December of last year at about Christmas time, I was given a lanky vine which was about 1.2 metres long, it had a couple of ratty looking 4" pitchers and most of the leaves were either covered in sooty mold or a type of green moss or algae. It was a rooted cutting of Nepenthes 'Rokko' which had gotten "lost" behind a lot of other more spectacular plants in a friends greenhouse. The growing tip of the plant seemed healthy enough, so I decided to give it a go. I repotted it and put it in a sunny place in my greenhouse. Because the vine was so long, I trained it up a piece of nylon line which I tied to the roof. 5 months have now passed and boy has it taken off! I am getting a new leaf every month and they are getting progressively larger, as are the pitchers. When it eventually hits the roof, or shoots out basals, I'll have to turn the vine into cuttings and start over again. I really like these pitchers, they have nectar glands scattered on the outside of the pitcher, on the stalk and also on the leaves. The nectar is produced in such copious amounts it actually drips from the underside of the lid...and according to my 4 year old daughter it tastes pretty good too - I caught her licking the lids of my pitchers just last week...but at least she wasn't eating what they had caught!

they are very beautiful pitchers linton! - they are also of very big size!
congatulations on bringing the nep back to good health!
good luck with gettting some basal shoots so you can take some cutttings!

Cool story and great growing Linton!

Nice!! And the spanish moss too

Wow that's a gorgeous plant, beautiful pitchers

very sexy nice one