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Post by chinlee on Dec 3, 2011 13:00:04 GMT -5
I'm reading numerous conflicting reports on the requirements for dormancy with cephalotus. Can anybody elaborate from their personal experiences with this conflicting information?
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Post by lloyd on Dec 3, 2011 15:52:26 GMT -5
I find my cephs go into what may be a dormancy where they lose a lot leaves and then they slowly grow back starting with non-pitcher leaves. Seems to be random and nothing I plan, maybe every year or two.
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Post by jonas on Dec 3, 2011 18:11:46 GMT -5
I'm reading numerous conflicting reports on the requirements for dormancy with cephalotus. Can anybody elaborate from their personal experiences with this conflicting information? No dormancy required for Cephalotus. When you lookup the climate table of Albany in Australia you find, that the daily (average) change in temperature is higher than the (average) change in temperature through all four seasons of the year: In °F: www.worldweather.org/185/c00356f.htm#climateIn °C: www.worldweather.org/185/c00356.htm#climateIf you keep the plant towards the cooler temperatures of their natural location, it develops more non-carnivorous leaves. If you keep it to the warmer temperatures, it will develop more pitchers. If you keep it out of the temperature range of its natural location (cooler or warmer), the plants may lose all the leaves and pitchers after some time. Strong plants will then regrow from the roots. Preferred average temperature is relatively cool compared to typical room temperatures, so do not keep them too warm for too long, especially in indoor terrariums with a high wattage of artificial lighting! Preferred temperature range for Cephalotus is more like for "tropical highland plants", even if Cephalotus is neither from the tropics nor from the highlands (they live in the cool breeze of an ocean). You can lower the temps in winter if you like to have many non-carnivorous leaves, i.e. for making leaf-cuttings. But you don't have to.
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