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Post by tom on Mar 17, 2006 10:52:52 GMT -5
One of my favorite thread in every forums! So, where do you grow your plants and how? As I often said, I move often so I had the chance (if you can call it like that) to experiment a lot of different setup: -Windowsill; -Small fluo in my pantry; -Fluo fixed on shelves; -Small aquarium recycled in terrarium (with pots or planted) -HPS in a basement; -Outdoor; -Fluo under my bed (yup!) -Styrofoam highland terrarium coupled with a humidifier And finally, I have now a HPS running in a room with two 4 tiers filled with plants, but it is getting quite hot (26-31 Celsius), so I have a large aquarium/terraria in the kitchen too, under 1x 2 tube (40W each) fluorescent fixture. Both still need improvement, but since I will not move this year, I have time to adapt these to the conditions I need
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Post by Syble on Mar 17, 2006 11:23:40 GMT -5
My collection has moved often also. Started off in the kitchen south facing bay window, had everything there, had awsome results, good colour, growth, lots of dew, ect. Then they got kicked over to the Eastfacing patio door in the living room, just a plantstand. Got good effect there, not quite as strong colouration as in the kitchen then they got to my room on a 3 teir lit plantstand, gro lux tubes I believe? Good results, but I prefer windows! My 3 large neps are in the living room though, seam to be fine, I'll give them time though! Sib
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Post by Flytrap on Mar 17, 2006 11:40:33 GMT -5
Quick answer: all over the home and yard. Most of my Neps are grown under lights in the winter in my laundry/furnace room (constant warm temperatures)...with amazing results. Some of the pitchers (eg. Maxima) are over 14 inches tall. I also have some in my southfacing bathroom window.
I grow almost all of my highlanders outdoors in the summer. And believe me, they grow! I've got around 12 different clones of N. maxima ... and my oldest clone grew over 20 feet tall once i untangled the mess. It's now been cut back to 18 inches.
And the rest of the plants enjoy their stay in my greenhouse.
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Post by zac on Mar 17, 2006 13:41:56 GMT -5
... and my oldest clone grew over 20 feet tall once i untangled the mess. Wow, that's some pretty impressive growth. I grow most of my plants in terrariums in my basement. I'm sure the constant plant lights coming up from the basement worries my neighbours but w/e. I also grow most of my pings on windowsills as they don't really take to the humidity of the tanks. I plan on moving some of my collection outside this season into a bog garden.
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Post by brian on Mar 17, 2006 17:55:29 GMT -5
A few tropicals indoors under lights, a small bog planter in my water pond in Niagara Falls and a little peat bog I made at the edge of Lake Baptiste near Bancroft. I'd kind of given up on CPs until I read a Toronto Star article about Carl Mazur overwintering VFTs and others outdoors. I had no idea these things could grow outside so far north.
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Post by ellen687 on Mar 21, 2006 14:00:33 GMT -5
On part of south-facing windowsill, on worktable (heating mat and CFL), shelf in the zipping indoor greenhouse in the middle of the room. My CPs dislike fluorescent lighting - either 2300K, 4100K or 6500K, and it's too cold on windowsill in winter. Summer - on backyard, in the cage (squirrel-protected).
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Post by tom on Mar 21, 2006 14:57:52 GMT -5
a CFL?
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Post by Flytrap on Mar 21, 2006 16:19:08 GMT -5
compact fluorescent light
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Post by purpman on Apr 1, 2006 20:01:59 GMT -5
Wow, I like this question as well.
I'm quite lucky, I have a greenhouse to keep my plants in as well as some of my potted fig trees for the winter. I let the greenhouse temps frequently run below 0C at night in the winter but not really, really cold. I also have a big tank in the basement for helis and some odds and ends.
however, as Brian pointed out. I've been growing many CP outdoors here in Niagara. I'm in Niagara Falls, now, moved here a year ago, however, prior to that I lived in Thorold, both places are considered zone 6B, granted NF is a bit warmer generally.
Anyway in Thorold, I used to grow many CP outside year round.
Here's a list of what I've grown outdoors over the years
D. anglica D. intermedia D. rotundifolia D. filiformis ssp filiformis P. vulgaris D. muscipula S. flava from VA, NC, SC and GA haven't tried FL S. purpurea ssp purpurea S. purpurea ssp venosa VA, NC, SC S. purpurea ssp venosa var montane NC S. minor, NC S. rubra, NC S. rubra jonesii NC S. oreophila GA, and hybrids of the above Sarracenia
I hope to build a few bog gardens here eventually, and I'll likely try others like leuco, alata, rubra gulfensis, rubra wherryii and psittacina.
Purpman
Now my friend Jay has grown leucophylla, and leucophylla hybrids as well and they have done very well.
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Post by jay on Apr 1, 2006 22:50:15 GMT -5
Hello all . Like carl I have a small green house where most of my plants stay in the spring ,summer, fall ,and a bit in the winter . ( just got the little bugger's out of the root cellar and repotted today) I have a 3 tiered lights stand for my neps , and a bog garden .( I had an all green psitt survive the winter My next goal is to get a nepenthes collection started for the greenhouse down by the falls:)
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Post by jimscott on Apr 3, 2006 9:21:30 GMT -5
Canadian Football League! Go Tiger Cats! My collection has evolved throughout the almost 3 years of growing. For the most part I have them at south-ish window sills, either in the bathroom, bedroom, kitchen, stairway, and attic. I have buckets of minibog plants outside for 3/4 of the year and the rest of the time now at a south window in the attic, for dormancy. I use yougurt containers, pipette dispenser containers, Gladware, Tupperware, and the occasional real plastic pot.
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Post by brian on Apr 4, 2006 15:58:48 GMT -5
Purpman, it sounds like you have a lot growing or planning to grow outdoors. I am still looking for a winter home for the third hobologger - would you be willing to participate?
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Post by Rick Hillier on Apr 11, 2006 9:33:59 GMT -5
I have 6 x 8 foot outdoor bog garden where I grow all of the North American sarracenia, several forms of dionaea, D. rotundifolia, intermedia, anglica, linearis, filiformis and a lone binata 'T' form (don't know how it got in there, but what the heck).
These plants all survive our fairly cold winters under a covering of about 1 foot of pine needles (this year, I covered the garden with burlap and then about 1 foot of hay).
Indoors, I grow a couple of drosera species (adelae, capensis wide and aliciae) in small aquariums, as well as several species of Nepenthes (including a strange young rafflesiana that is pure white on the outside with all of the brown mottling on the rim and the inside of the pitcher) under several 400 Watt metal halide lights.
I'm also trying some darlingtonia in several scenarios as well.
I'm presently looking to expand my drosera collection and would also like to get into Heliamphora and back into cephalotus (I lost my only plant a year ago due to some bad peat moss).
If anyone has any of those for sale or trade, I'd be definitely interested.
Anyway, that's my setup.
>>> Rick <<<
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