Project 2016: Cattleya walkeriana

[bil]

Originally Posted by SFLguy

For Southern Spain you'll probably need a low land nepenthes, how cold are your winters? How humid is it?

Well, the greenhouse isn't allowed to go below 10C which is about 53 - 55F and usually doesn't go below 12C 58F

Outside, nights can go below zero. Humidity? Not bone dry. Things need a lot of water, but there is a decent level of humidity.


Know any suitable Nerps with coloured pitchers?

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Originally Posted by estación seca

40-43C... Miltonia... Odondtoglossum... Zygo.... But your nights cool down. I think that is it.

I've been told Nepenthes absolutely require constant high humidity to pitcher. The ones I see in people's collections here don't pitcher, and don't look so good, even though they're in greenhouses.

Sounds like you need some Cyrtopodium, Eulophia and Oeceoclades.

They would do well here you reckon? While the day time hits 40 regularly, nights are about 20. The Nerps that are growing ok are also pitchering, so we must have reasonable humidity.

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Originally Posted by Subrosa

Ever grow Drosophyllum lusitanica?

Meh, I did grow some cape sundews, but by god did they take up space. Also, while they pulled in the tiny flies and ants, they didn't touch the flies that are the real nuisance. We get house flies that irritate, and stable flies that look like house flies but bite like a bastard.

[gngrhill]

Gorgeous pictures, Bil. I can only dream

[Subrosa]

Originally Posted by bil

Both. The sarracenia trumpets are deadly for flies, in all the time I have had carnivorous plants, NOTHING has has a kill rate like them.

The nerpenthes are a bit fragile here. Dunno if it's the heat. I have a couple doing OK, but most have died. Shame, I would like one that had coloured pitchers that stood out, but the ones I have are all green.

Originally Posted by bil

Well, the greenhouse isn't allowed to go below 10C which is about 53 - 55F and usually doesn't go below 12C 58F

Outside, nights can go below zero. Humidity? Not bone dry. Things need a lot of water, but there is a decent level of humidity.


Know any suitable Nerps with coloured pitchers?

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They would do well here you reckon? While the day time hits 40 regularly, nights are about 20. The Nerps that are growing ok are also pitchering, so we must have reasonable humidity.

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Meh, I did grow some cape sundews, but by god did they take up space. Also, while they pulled in the tiny flies and ants, they didn't touch the flies that are the real nuisance. We get house flies that irritate, and stable flies that look like house flies but bite like a bastard.

Uh huh, you grew capensis. Hmmmmmm....... to put our interchange in perspective, perhaps a different analogy is in order. Pretend we were discussing German cars, and I asked if you ever driven a Porsche, and you replied that you had driven a Trabant......Drosophyllum is not Drosera!

[bil]

Originally Posted by Subrosa

Uh huh, you grew capensis. Hmmmmmm....... to put our interchange in perspective, perhaps a different analogy is in order. Pretend we were discussing German cars, and I asked if you ever driven a Porsche, and you replied that you had driven a Trabant......Drosophyllum is not Drosera!

You are quite right. The one is not the other, but that wasn't what I meant so much as they both use the same sort of techniques to trap prey.

What were you going to suggest about Drosophyllum?

[Subrosa]

Drosophyllum catch bugs better than Drosera. Quantitatively speaking. Plus it's the carnivore most suited to your growing conditions, being that it's native to southern Spain.

[bil]

Originally Posted by Subrosa

Drosophyllum catch bugs better than Drosera. Quantitatively speaking. Plus it's the carnivore most suited to your growing conditions, being that it's native to southern Spain.

Hmmm? I shall have to look at it, although its cultivation requirements seem a little precise for my taste.

Anyone know of any nice lowland Nerps with coloured pitchers?

[Subrosa]

Originally Posted by bil

You are quite right. The one is not the other, but that wasn't what I meant so much as they both use the same sort of techniques to trap prey.

What were you going to suggest about Drosophyllum?

Originally Posted by bil

Hmmm? I shall have to look at it, although its cultivation requirements seem a little precise for my taste.

Anyone know of any nice lowland Nerps with coloured pitchers?

Precise cultivation requirements aren't so tough to meet when you live where the plant is native to......

[bil]

Originally Posted by Subrosa

Precise cultivation requirements aren't so tough to meet when you live where the plant is native to......

No, but if you read the cultivation requirements, they are very picky as to water levels etc, and the only thing that kills them faster than too much water is not enough.

[SFLguy]

Drosophyllum lusitanicum (Dewy Pine) | The Sarracenia Forum

Here's a good link that you could use to do some research
If anyone can grow it, you'd probably be the best bet of all haha
This being said, i think that if we want to continue this conversaron it should probably be moved to a new thread, maybe an Admin could help with that?

[wintergirl]

Ok back to project plant

My potted one just wants to keep going. After the last tip die off here is a new one.


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