Re: Nepenthes Composts

Peter Cole (carnivor@bunyip.demon.co.uk)
Wed, 15 May 1996 21:09:50 GMT

Chris Marsden <100620.2156@CompuServe.COM> writes: ...
> > I just want to be sure that I'm not missing the point your making
> > 8)?? My Madagascariensis is growing quite happily (but slowly) at
> > about 80F. However, it will soon be 95F+ during the day in the
> > enclosure and I have been told that the plant will probably not be
> > able to survive through the Summer 8(.
>
>
> I don't know about this one. My temps are betweens 55 and 70, on a
> thermostat so they are pretty precise.

This seems a pretty easy species to me, though I'm no expert. Mine
are in with N.mirabilis, alata, hirsuta, some hybrid or other and some
talangensis seeds that haven't sprouted yet, all at 80F-ish days/65F
-ish nights. Not planned, that's just the way they worked out where
they are (I'm not really that wild about Neps, so I don't go to any
particular trouble to pamper them.) The key point seems to be to
keep them dimmer than the others - 'better dead than red' with this
one I think. It grows at a respectable speed like this (2 or 3 new
leaves per plant since the end of January when I got 2 in a pot, and
completely green.) Funny little pitchers.

Just my $2*10^-2 worth,

Peter

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