matti
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Jul 28, 2007 10:27:39 GMT
Post by matti on Jul 28, 2007 10:27:39 GMT
One night the week before last it got down to minus 7 here (degrees celcius) I just thought I would report my nepenthes collection all appear to be fine except for Eymae x veitchii and mirabilis x ampullaria look alittle burned.
What are your experiances with nepenthes and the cold?
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Jul 28, 2007 10:50:27 GMT
Post by agustinfranco on Jul 28, 2007 10:50:27 GMT
Hi Matti:
-7 Celsius, wow that's a cold winter. Down here is only about 5 C in winter. i am growing a red albo and it's taking it pretty well. The leaves become more fragile under cold conditions, but the growing point is doing fine. a phillippinensis X bicalcarata died on me after 3 straight winters. I thought it was going to pull through again, but it didn't
Gus
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Jul 28, 2007 10:55:53 GMT
Post by matti on Jul 28, 2007 10:55:53 GMT
G'day Victor, it got down to -11 up the road abit, Then again I am about 100km drive west of the ocean so it is bound to get cooler here, my Nepenthes spectabilis is charging through, I just grow it with my hybirds, it is starting to vine. Did you see my new greenhouse? I may need to fill it with rajahs in a couple of months when I finish it, I may require your help.
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Jul 28, 2007 15:30:15 GMT
Post by rsivertsen on Jul 28, 2007 15:30:15 GMT
matti, when I lived in upstate New York, a piece of ice fell off a nearby pine tree and crashed through the glass of my greenouse in the middle of the night during my winter, when temps were well below 32F (0C), and the following morning, I found surface frost on all my pots, and ice crystals on the leaves of N. fusca, N. steno, and several other highlanders, the lowland stuff like N. mirabilis, N. gracilis, N. amps, several N. raff's, and a N. bical died; others came back from old growth deep in the pots. The highlanders never even slowed down!
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Jul 28, 2007 16:02:12 GMT
Post by Michael Catalani on Jul 28, 2007 16:02:12 GMT
About 5 years ago, the propane company was slow to get to my location, and my outdoor Nepenthes greenhouse ran out of heating gas for a few days. Temperatures during the night fell into the low 20'sF (about -6C) for 3 or so nights in a row. The greenhouse primarily housed highlanders during this time, as the lowlanders resided indoors in grow chambers. (heated by natural gas, which we still had.)
I did have some lowlanders out in the greenhouse, including about 50 N. truncatas, a few N. ampullarias, rafflesiana, and N. bicalcaratas.
Thick leaved lowlanders like N. truncata survived the cold without any leaf burn.
Amps and bicalcs, on the other hand, will get leaf burn well before the temperatures fall close to freezing. They ended up becoming toast.
The N. rafflesiana survived, but had significant leaf burn.
None of the intermediates or highlanders had any damage on them. Even though the temps were well below freezing, the greenhouse covering may have kept frost from developing.
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Aug 7, 2007 13:30:26 GMT
Post by ludwig on Aug 7, 2007 13:30:26 GMT
Same experience last Winter...3 consecutive nights of frost and all highland/intermediates fared fine. i was so worried but they all pulled through!
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