Key Care Guidelines:
- Light: Very bright diffused light or partial sun.
- Water: Use only low-mineral water (rainwater, distilled, or RO water).
- Humidity: Thrives in 70% or higher, but adaptable to lower indoor humidity.
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- Temperature: Thrives with warm days (75-85F) and cool nights (60sF)
- Soil/Potting: Well-drained, nutrient-poor, such as 1:1 sphagnum moss and perlite.
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Pitchering: To encourage pitchers, keep the soil damp but not waterlogged.
Key Features:- Appearance: Distinctive wide, flared, deep red to almost black peristome with thick, succulent-like leaves.
- Growth: Fast-growing and produces many, often red, pitchers that can reach up to 9 inches.
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- Pitcher Type: Produces lower pitchers that are red and often slightly restricted in the middle, and upper pitchers that resemble N. lowii.