D. falconeri

Don (dngess01@vlsi.ct.louisville.edu)
Mon, 13 Apr 92 18:46:28 -0400

>Could you enumerate your water/temp for this species? Mine has gone dormant
>and has not come back out of it, and it seems that my falconeri X d.p. is
>cutting back on growth also. I'm thinking that they aren't happy with my
>50 degree nighttime temps....
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>r.
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I have them under flourescent lights, about 5 inches from the bulbs of a
two-bulb fixture. The lights are on 18 hours a day. They are both in the
same plastic pot - about 8" in diameter and about 6" deep. The temperature
is in the low 70's when the lights are on, and goes down to the low 60's when
the lights are off. The cover on the Sept-Dec 1990 CPN shows D. falconeri
growing in habitat. The soil looks sort of sandy, so I used a mixture of
equal parts sand, perlite, and peat moss. When the plant's weren't growing,
this soil was just barely damp. I started adding a little water when the
plants started growing. I'll keep the plastic bag over the pot as long as
the plants seem to like it and there doesn't seem to be any mold growing.