Nepenthes and Drosera Magaliesberg

From: Laurent Ide (lide@dvddd.com)
Date: Fri Jan 03 1997 - 00:39:32 PST


Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 08:39:32 GMT
From: Laurent Ide <lide@dvddd.com>
To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com
Message-Id: <aabcdefg31$foo@default>
Subject: Nepenthes and Drosera Magaliesberg

Perry Malouf told me recently that Nepenthes pitchers live maybe three or
four months, then die. I'm now sure that I got some pitchers for more than
five months that are really in good state. Well, only one day in bad
humidity conditions (less than 40 percent humidity) produces this effect:
pitcher's top are distorted. If you see that, quickly spray your plant
with water. Be sure that ground is wet enough. I personally give water
each evening until it drops from the basket bottom. The pitchers tops
should be ok in a few hours, if not you'll see they'll turn to black, and a
part of the pitcher too maybe ! Especially the biggest ones, and these
that are far from the center of the plant in first.

So, I've placed a lot of Drosera's in the same pot, they're all
South-African except D. capillaris, but this one has the same growing
conditions. Now they're all in dormancy in here, and most of them, like D.
regia or aliciae, simply grow slower. But D. Magaliesberg, identified as a
kind of D. collinsiae by myself (hey scientists, don't lynch me for that
personal intuition) has completely turned to black, until the hart of the
plant. I suppose it's completely rot (sorb!), but knowing some surprising
reincarnations by these plants I'll wait until spring to be sure. Can
anyone tell me if this Drosera completely disappears in winter ?

Thanks.

Laurent

Here a personal observation: don't use peat:sand mixes to grow some seeds,
because the roots of the little plants have problems to penetrate the sand.
I obtain really better results on pure peat.



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