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N. talangensis is ideal for a terrarium due to ist small size. The diameter of this two year old near to adult plant is only about 15cm and the height is about 10cm. As I was told and also did learn from my own plant, N. talangensis dislikes repotting very much when getting older. So it may a good idea to start with a bigger pot and avoid repotting as long as possible. N. talangensis is growing in mossy forest only pitchering well, when grown under high humidty levels. A layer of living Sphagnum, the tendrils are alowed to grow into, seems to help this plant producing well developed pitchers.
Sadly this plant was badly affected by mite after the repotting mentioned above (see also N. hamata). To make bad things worse this N. talangensis reacted badly to the Akarizid used. So it took about half a year to fully recover and start building new pitchers. The pitcher on the pictures below is about 5cm in height.
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The second N. talangensis I am growing is still much smaller but it is obviously another clone with a much more red peristome.
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This N. talangensis I got from Christian Klein (many thanks!). The timespan between taking these two photos was about five months. As can be seen from the pictures, N. talangensis grows quite fast for a highland plant producing about one new leaf per month under typical highland conditions and very high light levels. The shape of small juvenile pitchers doesn't resemble the shape of adult ones, but they already look quite funny:
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The potting mix I use for N. talangensis is my standard Nepenthes soil mix. This mix consists of equal parts Lecaton (size 3mm), Seramis, shreded cork or charcoal, coarse quartz sand and two parts high quality peat moss. Judging from the description of the natural habitat given by Charles Clarke a good portion of Sphagnum might be beneficial as soil supplement, which was not by hand during the last repotting.
Update 05/2005:
Although quite slow growing N. talangensis will eventually start to produce the typical pitchers with their extremely wide peristom.
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N. talangensis is one of my favourites and so I took the chance to buy another clone at a local meeting in May 2005 which already produces big adult pitchers about 7cm in height.
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