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Feb 20, 2015 12:51 PM CST
Montreal, Canada
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Nepenthes can be 'hard' for novices, so if your lil guy thrive under your care, thats mean you are quite good :)

From my opinion, easy species are: Sundews, Sarracenias, Pinguiculas, Stylidiums, Utricularias, Dionaeas
Medium easy species are Genliseas, Catopsis, Brocchinias, Roridulas, Nepenthes, byblis
Harder ones are Cephalotus, Heliamphoras

But all carnivorous plants, even the harder, can be unkillable beasts if you give em good growing conditions.

My favorites CPs are Heliamphoras, by far :)

They came from the lost world; sky islands, in south america. Due to these very high square mountains(tepuys), the animals and plants evolved very differently. This place is the inspiration for the movie jurassic park. Of course no dino up there, but the plants are very differents and ancients. You can clearly see heliamphora are in fact simple rolled leaves. Very primitive plants. I give em meat once a week, and they just thrive. These plants should not be on earth anymore, scientists and taxonomists just dont know why they are still on these mini sky islands.

Also they can be very tricky to grow. One of the harder plant to grow IMHO. They need 90%+ relative humidity; they grow almost in clouds. Cool day temperatures, and cold nights (24C/10C).
They require crystal clean water, like rain or distilled water. They grow in acid soil mix, like peat moss. And they need a very high amount of light. I have to blast them with many t5 tubes.

BUT they are so beautifull !

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