Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 09:42:18 -0500 From: BREWER_CHARLES@ecomail.damneck.navy.mil To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com Message-Id: <aabcdefg185$foo@default> Subject: Re[2]: Madagascariensis Cultivation
Perry Malouf wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Has anyone been able to grow N. madagascariensis to a decent
> size, say beyond the "baby plant" stage? And, has anyone
> been able to do this with the TC clone that's being sold
> far-and-wide in garden shops (in the US)? Is this clone
> slow, or is N. madagascariensis a particularly slow grower
> in general?
I guess I will throw in my 2 cents worth for what it' worth. I'm like Joe, I
purchased several plants from a local HQ store. I immediately repotted them up
using a mixture of peat/perlite/sand/bark/burnt pine straw. I kind of just threw
a few handfuls of each in a bucket mixed it together. I re potted all plants and
put them in the greenhouse sitting in a little water. They seem to do just fine
until cold weather set in, then the plants started to show sighs of stress so I
transferred them to a aquarium inside the house. I keep a light on them 24 hours
a day and the room that they are in will cool down at night to about 68 degrees
and rise to 75 degrees during the day. Inside the aquarium the temps will drop
to about 70 degrees and raise to about 80 degrees during the day. I clipped the
growing spike off, not to force it bush out, but because it turned brown when it
was in the greenhouse. Now, I have a bunch of pitchers popping out all over. I
don't know if it was due to the change of weather(greenhouse to house) or the
removal of the center stalk. All I know is the darn thing is a very slow grower,
but has produced pitchers. Even the new side growth has a small pitcher on them.
One last thing, I did give a a misting on mild orchid fertilizer. I believe it
was 1/4 strength and they are still sitting in a small amount of water. I hope
this helps.
Charles Brewer
>
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