Re: Re: RE: Sick Cephalotus
dave evans (T442119@RUTADMIN.RUTGERS.EDU)
Thu, 02 Nov 95 19:17 EST
> From: "John Phillips" <phillips@LIBRARY.UCSF.EDU>
>
>
> Dave, Do you dilute your fertilzer? I only use it at 1/4 to 1/2
> strength and usually syringe just a little into the largest and
> therefore most accessible traps. (I've had very good luck with orchid
> fertilizer.) But I've also misted the non-trap leaves before without
> any problems. The largest factor has been the dome I put over the
> pot. It's made from a translucent 1 gal. plastic jug and the plant
> is very happy sitting inside getting direct sun from 1 or 2pm onward.
> The temps inside the dome are too hot for the sphagnum moss, but my
> Cephalotus loves it. The traps live longer too.
That's the way I fertilize also. And I have N.gracilis growing and
pitchering in the same terrarium so the humidity should be fine.
It's not that hot now, but stays at or above 75 F.
Dave Evans