Any tip for growing P. heterophylla

[patrickn]

Hi everyone,

I got a seedling of P. heterophylla from a local hobbyist in Jan of this year (2010). At that time the plant has summer leaves, then it turns to winter rosette quickly (within a month) at my home. Then I pulled out some winter leaves and small plantlet raised. However, the little plantlets grow very very slow. When a new leave comes out, a old leave will wither.

As I checked in www.pinguicula.org. I found the suggested growing condition is more or less the same as major pringuicula. In my condition, other pinguicula are growing well and happy. So, anyone here has experience on growing this species? Would you please advise me? Thank you very much in advance.

[patrickn]

My growing condition (June to now):
Indoor, T5 lighting (10 h per day)
Temperature in day-time: 32-35C
Temperature in night-time (with air conditioning): 23-25C
Humidity around a day: 30-60%
Media: 1 perlite, 1 sand, 1 pouzzolane, 1 peat moss and few vermiculite.
Watering with tray method: less than 1 cm water
Pot height: 7cm

[jeff]

indoor , in a terra ?

actually mine is in flower and outdoor , I live in LE MANS - FRANCE

your watering frequency ?

jeff

[Radek Kastner]

Aug 29, 2010 13:43:02 GMT patrickn said:

My growing condition (June to now):
Indoor, T5 lighting (10 h per day)
Temperature in day-time: 32-35C
Temperature in night-time (with air conditioning): 23-25C
Humidity around a day: 30-60%
Media: 1 perlite, 1 sand, 1 pouzzolane, 1 peat moss and few vermiculite.
Watering with tray method: less than 1 cm water
Pot height: 7cm

We spoke about P. heterophylla in this thread of ICPS forum:
icps.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=pinguicula&action=display&thread=3608

Your temperature are too high for growing of this mountain Pinguicula sp., (altitude about 2300-2400 m a.s.l.), the soil on both of sites which we visited wasn noticeably clayey..., temperature during winter are closely to zero of °C.

[jeff]

I am OK with RADEX.

attention also for the watering , actually (here in FRANCE) dormancy begins and in dormancy for the filiform ping (except may be for moctezumae) the substrate must to be dry otherwise attention to the rot .

attention also to the temperature here in the temperate country with 0° we have often some frost , which seems to me, fatal for these ping .

jeff