Re: N. rajah growth rate

From: jneps (jneps@gateway.net)
Date: Wed Dec 08 1999 - 22:00:17 PST

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Date: Wed, 08 Dec 1999 23:00:17 -0700
From: jneps <jneps@gateway.net>
To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com
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Subject: Re: N. rajah growth rate

Hi,

Growing condition are as follows:

Temp: 50F to 80F (warm days, cool nights)

Humidity: 75% to 100%

Illumination: 1000 W HID lamp at 5 ft, 13 hour photoperiod

Compost: 50% peat, 50% silica sand

Feeding: Small insects only

Jeff Shafer

Charles Bigelow wrote:
>
> Nice. What are the growing conditions? Any special care?
>
> Jeff Shafer wrote:
> >Since Perry remarked on my results, I thought I'd comment.
> >I've grown N. rajah for some time now. The specimens I first
> >received were about 1 cm when they arrived. Over a period of
> >14 months, they reached a diameter of more than 20 cm. Since then
> >their rate of growth has slowed, but they are still increasing in
> >size.
> >
> >Jeff Shafer

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