Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 14:53:45 +0100 From: Catalano Marcello <catalano@internode.it> To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com Message-Id: <aabcdefg4119$foo@default> Subject: maxima and macrovulgaris problems
dear friends, something bad I think is happening. Here in Italy is
winter, a really cold winter. I have a little greenhouse, in my
room, near a big window, where I keep my nepenthes. The maxima is
in little little sphagnum and little peat pearls called "seratorf"
(great for cp). The macrovulgaris is still in
peat-perlite-sand-peat-bark mix. Now, after that I put the maxima
from the old compost (the same of macrovulgaris) to this new one
(without perlite, as I've heard bad things about old perlite, and
the maxima was starting yellowing rapidly from one day to the other)
the yellowing stopped and the plant produced a new, green, nice leaf
also if without pitcher (obviously the stress of repotting). But
after some months, now in winter, (and I'm surprised also because
this is a highland) also the second leaf is without pitcher and also
more forced (it seem the plant is in dormancy) and a leaf in the
middle of the plant is yellowing. It's the dormancy? (maybe this
plant is more lowland than highland, because my little highland s
are starting to grow just now). And the macrovulgaris, I moved it
from a hot green house to this one that is a little bit more cold
and it's yellowing here and there. It's the change? it's only the
change or also the perlite? Why the other lowland with these 2
plants are doing fine (they stopped growing but no yellowing) ?
Maybe someone who grows these 2 species can give me an answer...
Sorry for the bad english and so many parenthesis. Thanks and happy
new year from Italy, Marcello Catalano
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