Encouraging Competition
A nepenthes hybride, ventricosa and sanguinea competing with other unwanted plants
Have you ever wonder why the trees on the mountains are taller than the normally trees that you would find in the city??? Well,the answer is competition...competition to sunlight. Neps on their natural habitat are normally competing with grasses. Right now, I am also trying to duplicate that same environment in my garden. That is by planting some unwanted plants with in the same pot where my neps are planted. I still dont have a concrete evidence on this but this should encourage the neps to grow faster and produces more pitcher. What is my basis for this? If you will just come to think about it, Cp grows well on a very poor environment. By planting them beside grasses who is the number one consumer of nutrients from the planting medium, we are actually depriving the Neps of the nutrient that can be found in the planting medium. So Neps must depend on other source of nutrient. Where else will it look for nutrients but on its pitcher. If there is just a few pitcher, then it might just produce more to be able to sustain its growth. Does it makes sense at all?? Well it is still under experiment so you would definitely read it from here if it is indeed benificial to Nepenthes.