Nepenthes and Cool Nights

Robert St-Jean (robert.st-jean@es2.es.emr.ca)
Fri, 15 Dec 1995 13:04:58 -0500

On December 15th Clarke Brunt wrote:

>The plant is just hung up in an ordinary
>room in the house in temperatures varying
>between perhaps 12 and 20C (warmer at
>night when the heating is on), and
>continues to grow almost as fast as in
>Summer, though it is producing few
>pitchers, and these are very small (it
>produced nice pitchers in Summer).

Thats interesting since I've notice too that
N. alata does not seem to mind the cool
nights as much as the other Nepenthes
species that have shown they are not too
happy. N alata is still growing very well at
57 F nights. BTW I have followed Dave
Evans' advice to raise the night temperature
by raising the temperature of my basement
outside my grow room to 68F.

Bye for now,

Rob