Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 10:46:51 -0500 From: "Michael Hunt" <MPHCJ5@email.msn.com> To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com Message-Id: <aabcdefg473$foo@default> Subject: Re: Nepenthes seedlings
It's a very real possibility the light is too bright for the young
seedlings. On many young or stressed plants (such as cuttings) excessive
light will further push the plant to its limit. In a case with too much
light on a tender young plant it can not absorb large amounts of light and
is unable to carry on with photosynthesis and chlorophyll production ceases.
The plant turns from pale green to white. Growth stops and the plant dies,
or dies back.
I have had this problem with N. gracilis cuttings in particular. The cut
takes rapidly and produces a vigorous shoot then stops and turns white. When
I caught the problem and moved the plants farther from the fluorescent tubes
after recovery some regained growth. But the shoot died.
~Mike
St. Petersburg Fl
> From: Andreas Krassnigg <andreas.krassnigg@uibk.ac.at>
> > after 4-6 weeksand the plants are growing since then in a propagation
> tray,
> > 26\260 C (78\260 F) all the time,
> > under fluorecent light 14 hours a day, using deionized water only.
> > most of the plants are sprouting out their 4th pitcher bearing leaf,
> > very small, palish green in colour, some slightly red below the
peristome.
> > they seemed to do well so far.
> > but now it seems to me as if the colour is getting *too* palish
green....
> > is this quite usual? or is it a sign to change growing conditions?
>
> There is the possibity that the light is too bright, also.
>
> > anyone on with experience in bringing up Nepenthes seedlings?
> > any helpful comment would be highly appreciated.
>
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