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Post by vraev on Jan 20, 2007 14:57:16 GMT -5
Hey guys, As you must have known before, I am using this brightstick for lighting my nepenthes. Its been atleast a week since I used foil to close up the nep and put it right next to the light....trying to maximize light and humidity. I have been noticing new leaves and none of them seem to have grown. There are a couple of pitchers which have dried up. Is the plant just acclaimatising to this new condition?? or is it a sign of a lot of stress?? What do I do to relieve this stress? How can I do it in my extremely limitied options available? Is the light bad?? do I need a better one?? any help would be appreciated guys. Its a 40$ nep. If i can't grow a ventrata.....damn! say bye bye to a rajah. varun
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Post by insectivore on Jan 20, 2007 23:21:07 GMT -5
Like I've said in previous post the light has nothing to do with it me and titom use it without a problem! Maybe its just the way you got it set up... But if its growing but just not pitchering there no worries! Cya
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Post by vraev on Jan 20, 2007 23:22:51 GMT -5
the problem is like it seems to have stopped growing or is growing extremely slowly.
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Post by lloyd on Jan 20, 2007 23:34:19 GMT -5
If a plant isn't obviously sick then just step back and give it some time. You can always try something different in a few weeks.
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Post by vraev on Jan 21, 2007 0:59:41 GMT -5
I am planning on making this for my nep. I don't want the most expensive plant of my collection to die. The height is 60 cm, length and breadth is 30 cm. The frame is made from dowels or art wood. The inbetween material is "TRANSPARENT plastic" ...in the worst case....kitchen plastic wrap. The holes will be made for watering and misting from top.
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Post by lloyd on Jan 21, 2007 12:43:52 GMT -5
What are you taking at University? I think you should switch to Botany. Don't tell your parents.
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Post by pem on Jan 21, 2007 13:00:37 GMT -5
haha thats what I did, works well for me!!!
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Post by insectivore on Jan 21, 2007 14:32:09 GMT -5
lol! I'm not sure what domain I'm going in yet but there's definatly science were i'm gonna be! Cya
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Post by vraev on Jan 21, 2007 14:45:17 GMT -5
lol lloyd! No way......I want to go to med school.....I would love to be a doctor. Its just that I would also love to have a big.....I mean immense collection of CP's in a huge greenhouse custom designed by myself with different areas for highland, lowland and temperate regions. And in the very central portion .......there will be the rajah. I like biology. However, the thing I noticed in first year is that when I did ecosystem and evolution type biologies....I did not like it that much....My major which is in biochem is also like "meh!" ....however, last semester my immunology course was sooooo unique.....never in my life was I soo into the material, never was I looking forward for class. On the final exam day of immunology, I was actually impressed of the course structure and the way we went all the way from basic innate immunity to complete detailed pathways of mast cells causing allergic reactions to common agents.....via hygeine hypothesis. It is the only knowledge which I can easily relate to and apply to. I am also doing clinical biochem which is also very very cool and interesting. My field is medicine my friend.....and my hobby is Nature. varun.....out!
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Post by lloyd on Jan 21, 2007 19:26:47 GMT -5
I was debating when I was a little older than you whether to go into Medicine or Botany. It was almost a coin-toss. Of course I can't ever know what would have transpired if I went into Botany but I do know I would be surrounded by acres of all sorts of crazy plants in Tissue Culture. However if you really like immunology and biochemistry: do not go into medicine!!!!!! Having an original thought or any notion of science is frowned on in a doctor. Stay in science by all means but steer clear of medicine if you llike to think about things. I know parents like medicine because they think you will make lots of money but a biochemist isn't going to starve. Sorry for ranting off topic here, no flaming please.
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Post by tom on Jan 21, 2007 19:50:05 GMT -5
hahaha its a risky topic... although i have a formation as an ecologist/biologist, i wouldn't urge someone to go in biology either, its morelikely an utopist world, and you must have strong beliefs to persist in that domain... and jobs arent that good IMO, agronomy is better
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Post by lloyd on Jan 21, 2007 20:25:18 GMT -5
Is this the same Tom with the quote from Victor Hugo? To paraphrase M. Hugo: "Better happily listening to Nature than be bored making money." Ok, no more off topic for me.
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Post by vraev on Jan 21, 2007 20:25:19 GMT -5
lol! well....immunology is going to be mybackup.....biochem NO WAY....I find protein stuff all OK but I sure DO NOT want to go and work every day of my life in a lab. I would rather be happy being a doctor helping people and trying to be nicer to my patients compared to the doctors that I normally see in facilities.
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Post by tom on Jan 21, 2007 21:03:14 GMT -5
Yes, it's the same Tom, and i am still an ecologist within... but it's a long story that we could argue upon for several hours with a lot of beers Don't forget that agronomy is the domesticated species's biology! What i dislike most about it is the contract, often far away from home, it's hard to get etashblished somewhere, raised a family, cultivate a land... but you often have the chances only a few has: see/manipulate rare species, reach forbidden/protected places, etc.
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Post by lloyd on Jan 21, 2007 22:01:07 GMT -5
I'll be happy to meet you partway one day for a chat about CP's, life and science. How about a lunch at Schwartz's Delicatessen in Montreal for any CP'ers who can come? My treat.
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