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By Leo756
Posts:  764
Joined:  Tue Apr 02, 2013 9:42 pm
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I purchased a Cephalotus from FTS a few weeks ago. It looked like this when it first arrived...
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That photo was taken on my deck with natural light, but I've been keeping it indoors under my Quantum Badboy grow light because Matt said they do well with artificial lighting and I don't have any place outdoors I could put something so small where it would be safe from squirrels, sunburn, etc. I've never grown anything in pure LFS before though and I'm afraid I might have been keeping it too wet. I've only been watering it with rainwater when the top feels dry to the touch and the pot feels really light, which usually works out to about three times a week. I'm especially concerned though now that some of the little pitchers seem to be turning brown...
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This photo was taken indoors under fluorescent light, so the colors look pretty harsh. It also seems to be losing a lot of its bright green color, but that's not surprising since everything I grow under that light always seems to turn red. Are the brown parts anything to be worried about though? Is that what crown rot looks like? The centers of the two rosettes still seem to look okay, so I'm hoping those are just older pitchers dying off maybe? Do I need to be doing anything differently?
By Snap Traps
Posts:  402
Joined:  Sat Oct 01, 2011 3:15 pm
#181744
Crown rot is when the centre of the rosette rot away. The browning of pitchers are normal, it happens because the pitchers are too old.
By plantfreak1
Posts:  259
Joined:  Sun Jul 31, 2011 5:00 am
#181767
And the plant may be experiencing a little stress from the transition to its new environment.
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