Post by druboi on Jul 22, 2015 18:50:24 GMT
Thank you for including me in your group. I have a modest collection of carnivorous plants and will be trying my first highlanders, soon. I have N.mikei, and N.edwardsiana coming from Wistuba and I received my first N.hamata yesterday. I grow in my basement and have many different plants, including gesneriads, ant plants, begonias and carnivorous plants. While I consider N.robcantleyi an intermediate, it is my favorite so far.
I read a lot, including on forums, publications, and whatever reasonable sources of information I can find, but I'd love to hear what those of you that don't grow in a greenhouse are doing for light, cooling, fertilizing, and what ever cultural tips you might wish to share. I currently rarely fertilize with a foliar spray of MaxSea and I feed insect prey to the pitchers. I have also broken organic fertilizer sticks into tiny bits and fed these to pitchers. I'm currently considering fertilizing much more frequently and adding coffee foliar sprays. I use RO water and a mix of orchid bark, charcoal, coarse perlite, and dead LFS as a potting mix. I grow under 6 T8s and I use a yarn wick, run through the pot, into a reservoir of water to supply constant moisture, without them sitting in water. I grow most of all types of plants with this wicking system. My temps are controlled with central air and an additional portable unit, keeping me in the mid to low 50sF at night, in the cold Winter and 60sF in Summer, at night. Humidity is 60-80% plus, by virtue of so many plants and open trays of water, mostly staying around 80%, year round.Also, any tips on getting sphagnum to grow in my pots? It just seems to slowly die, unless grown enclosed, but I'm guessing there may be more tropical types that are successful, instead of the native, temperate types, I have tried.
I read a lot, including on forums, publications, and whatever reasonable sources of information I can find, but I'd love to hear what those of you that don't grow in a greenhouse are doing for light, cooling, fertilizing, and what ever cultural tips you might wish to share. I currently rarely fertilize with a foliar spray of MaxSea and I feed insect prey to the pitchers. I have also broken organic fertilizer sticks into tiny bits and fed these to pitchers. I'm currently considering fertilizing much more frequently and adding coffee foliar sprays. I use RO water and a mix of orchid bark, charcoal, coarse perlite, and dead LFS as a potting mix. I grow under 6 T8s and I use a yarn wick, run through the pot, into a reservoir of water to supply constant moisture, without them sitting in water. I grow most of all types of plants with this wicking system. My temps are controlled with central air and an additional portable unit, keeping me in the mid to low 50sF at night, in the cold Winter and 60sF in Summer, at night. Humidity is 60-80% plus, by virtue of so many plants and open trays of water, mostly staying around 80%, year round.Also, any tips on getting sphagnum to grow in my pots? It just seems to slowly die, unless grown enclosed, but I'm guessing there may be more tropical types that are successful, instead of the native, temperate types, I have tried.