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Post by adelea on Apr 2, 2014 0:51:39 GMT
I have setup a new terrarium and would like to run a mister continuously from 8am-8pm, the nepenthes have well draining soils and get morning sun then filtered from 11am onwards, temps are 23C-25C at night and 24C-32C by day, the reason for the misting time is that I have attached a miniature solar water fountain to a small sprinkler/mister I had spare from my greenhouse (it sprays small droplets not mist so really I guess its a mini sprinkler).
I am just wondering if this is ok or will it lead to rot if the plants leaves/shoots are wet for to long?, I know that in the wild they can get rain for weeks on end but am unsure if this will be ok in a terrarium.
There is plenty of airflow (due to a cpu fan) and with the sprinkler the humidity remains above 95%, without it the humidity drops to 80% and the temps rise a couple degrees (days of 35C), at the moment I only have a N.Campanulata, Belli, Pervillei and a couple utrics in there, but I want to move a few other small neps from my greenhouse into it (ampullaria, bicalarata, rafflesiana and ventricosa), it is essentially for seedlings to 15cm diameter plants, once they are over 15cm they go to the greenhouse.
So the main question is can these nepenthes handle this much water on their leaves?
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Post by sykosarah on Apr 2, 2014 3:07:12 GMT
I don't know about the humidity, but if it really does get to 35 degrees Celsius the temp might stress out highlanders. Some of the really difficult or nitpicky species I have heard don't appreciate strait up drops of water on certain portions, but none on you list stand out to me.
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Post by hcarlton on Apr 2, 2014 13:55:19 GMT
If all he has is lowlanders, 35 C isn't an issue. As for water, I would be careful with that much sitting on surfaces, and I would probably put a mister on only periodically during the day, but if there is proper airflow, the rate of evaporation might balance out the effect.
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