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Post by roridula on Mar 14, 2007 5:20:30 GMT
As I prepare for summer I will be dividing my plants into terraria which will get more or less warm. I am not sure about how to treat Mexican Pinguicula. Are they subject to problems in hotter situations? I am guessing they will be ok, but would rather not experiment if someone has already explored this.
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Post by Joseph Clemens on Mar 14, 2007 14:59:33 GMT
For the first 7-8 years mine were getting along with day temperatures in the 90's F. Now that I've cooled them down from that, they are doing better, but most did just fine with the higher temps.
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Post by utricseb on Mar 14, 2007 21:40:11 GMT
Hi Joseph, so by your experience.. what is the higest range of temps (day - night) Mexican Pings will grow under, in the long term?
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Post by PlantAKiss on Mar 15, 2007 14:46:30 GMT
I'd be interested in that question as well. Last summer I lost all my pings.  I never had any problems with them before. I suspect that it was from heat. It was VERY hot in my house (an unusually hot summer combined with a broken AC). However, I'm wondering if it were more the lack of air movement than the heat...or a combination of the two. Maybe heat is OK if there is better air circulation? |
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Post by Joseph Clemens on Mar 16, 2007 7:52:05 GMT
I've always kept a small fan moving the air in my plant-room for air circulation 24/7. I've still kept the fan, but now the evaporative cooler (mentioned below) adds an entirely new dimension to the concept of air movement. Most of my Mexican species and hybrids tolerated the excess heat - hottest was about 95F for short periods and 80-85F for prolonged periods, day through night. Of course I've always kept mine sitting in trays of water, which could have ameliorated the air temperature and possibly provided them with a micro-climate that was cooler and more humid. Not all of them completely tolerated these conditions ---  . Beginning late last summer I installed an evaporative cooler blowing into the plant-room window, since then. Through the winter I used it frequently, off and on, to maintain some additional cooling and humidifying. Most of my plants were doing fairly well in my earlier, hotter conditions, but my visits to the plant-room were often uncomfortable, to understate the truth. Now a visit to the plant room is like stepping onto a mountain meadow, except there are so many plants crowded into it, there is hardly any room for me, and their are many more flowers on those that were flowering before the change, and there are now flowers on those that hadn't ever flowered in the hotter conditions. |
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It's really hot down here!
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Post by birdman on Mar 18, 2007 14:00:21 GMT
I think that 85 is high end optimal however, if you pot them in terra cotta pots and use saucers of water you can cool the roots and base of plants allowing them to tolerate higher temps for longer periods of time. This will also increase the ambient humidity around the plants making the micro climate more like the real habitat- Just my opinion (also has worked for me!)
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I never had any problems with them before. I suspect that it was from heat. It was VERY hot in my house (an unusually hot summer combined with a broken AC). However, I'm wondering if it were more the lack of air movement than the heat...or a combination of the two. Maybe heat is OK if there is better air circulation? 
. Beginning late last summer I installed an evaporative cooler blowing into the plant-room window, since then. Through the winter I used it frequently, off and on, to maintain some additional cooling and humidifying.
