Brochinnia Reducta - Cultivation???

[kath]

There is a Brochinnia Redcuta for sale on an NZ site right now. It has come up several time before, but i've never takne much notice. I guess I just don't see it as carnivorous plant. But lately I've been looking at it a bit more, and it actually could be worth having - except i've no idea how to grow it

Can anyone help?

[BarryRice]

Piece of cake. Put it in a peat-rich, well drained soil like 2:1 perlite:peat. LOTS OF SUN. Water directly into the urn. Otherwise, treat like Sarracenia.

I'm sure others have other methods, but this works famously for us.

B

[Clint]

Minus the dormancy

I've never seen one in cultivation that looks half as nice (tightly furled, yellow urn) as the pics wild plants. I guess they really need all of the light they can get to grow like that, and the rays we get closer to sea level are filtered too much. Unless it's something in the media.

[kath]

Is heat a problem, like with Heli's? Light's really no big deal, unless overheating in temperature's around 27 degrees is, and humidity above 60% is.

Seriously, my nana's windowsill is BRIGHT it scorched my poor Sarr seedlings a little while ago! Gave them all sunburn!It also has a a lot of reflecting going on, and it gets some artifical lighting. It's so bright it actually really hurts my eyes to look down that way (it's concealed off with reflecting stuff on all sides except for one. Bleh!)

[Brian Barnes]

Mine are growing right now in 83F outside in full sun and loving it! They're beginning to get a nice yellowish cast to them. I never overwater when it's this hot though, and prefer to keep the media just damp, which is half peat/half sand. I'm also watching a good friends' Brochinnia right now that's in full flower....We might have seed soon.
Happy Growing,
Brian.