Re: Growing info for D. adelae
Rob Brisler (brislerr@ozemail.com.au)
Sat, 31 Aug 1996 01:24:09 +1000
>
> I can't seen to grow this species :( It used to be very weedy
>a couple years ago. Then they all just died on me. Same for my
>for my friend, Tom Hayes, I believe. Anyway, I after killing
>quite a number of them, I now have two very tiny plantlets growing
>beneath the leaves of N.ampullaria. They don't look very happy
>either! I can't figure it out, what am I doing wrong here? Are
>these plants in need of very, very high humidity? The Neps are
>pitchering fine in the slightly higher than normal humidity in-
>side their terrarium. D.prolifera suffered the same fate and
>though I want to grow D.shizandra, I dare not try it, as I'm
>sure to kill it too. If any one has these plants and can tell
>me how to grow them, I'd love to try them again. Perhaps my
>lighting is the wrong spectrum?
>
>Dave Evans
>
Hi Dave,
How do you grow them. They should be grown fairly dark (shaded conditions)
and not too hot and not too cool with high humidity. D.shizandra requires
the same condtions but is far less forgiving about minor variations than
D.adelae. My D.adelae die back to the ground most Winters because of the
overnight lows here. They come back in Spring. Do your plants currently
experience a high daytime / nightime temperature differential?
Regards,
Rob Brisler