Re: Nepenthes Composts
John Walker (jorwa@ix.netcom.com)
Fri, 17 May 1996 13:09:45 -0700
>> > 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,
>
>
FYI I grow mine in a brightly lit container and it has very nice shades of
pink throughout the pitchures. Just goes to show that no two growing setups
are quite the same. The pitchures only seen to last a week or two before
turning black. I guess I didn't realize that 2 to 3 new leaves on a plant
in the last 5 months is a respectable growing plant 8). I've been getting 1
or 2 leaves every month and still thought that was slow....compared to
other cp's =8o
John Walker