N. Raff on a windowsill?

[DavyJones]

After looking around and doing some research, it seems that N. Raff is fairly forgiving when it comes to temp/humidity after it gets acclimatized. But reading is different from people's personal experience. Do you all believe that one could grow one on a windowsill, facing normal temps of high 60s to mid 70s, and humidity fluctuating around the 50s and 60s, or would one be issuing a death sentence?

 

[Halt]

mine crisped within 2 days of putting it on my table while i was setting up my terra. but it was grown in a GH, so it's different i guess. i don't really know.

 

[SirKristoff]

Halt i think yours did that because you didnt acclimate it. Davy, im sure you could grow one there no prob

 

[Halt]

i was trying to set up my terra in time :O

nice siggy, too bad 12-1-09 didn't happen yet.

edit: pshhhaw, i was testing people

 

[SashaM24]

I've never tried but I'm curious as well. My Raff is quickly starting to outgrow my terrarium.

Halt: I believe Sirkristoff's sig is correct. It is being written as a European date. Day/Month/Year. But I may be wrong.

 

[Jimmy]

I am.

It's doing well. In fact, it grows near my N. glabrata, N. hamata, N. tentaculata, and N. mantalingajanensis. Pitchering, putting out new leaves, the whole works. Elgecko has a large, vining Raff that is simply legendary - grown in his window.

Just make sure it's acclimated correctly, and you should be fine.

 

[DavyJones]

Elgecko has a large, vining Raff that is simply legendary - grown in his window.

Well hopefully he'll come along and throw up some pics, like he always does.

Sometimes I think he does it just to make us all jealous.

 

[SirKristoff]

Yes, my sig is set up as the european way. since i am from Norway, its a bit of a habit that i have to break.

 

[kamiljablo]

Can A ventrata grow on a windowsill?

 

[jimscott]

Window sills are fine for a time, but in our temperate zone they stop pitcher in from fall through spring, ~6 months, without artificial lighting to supplement what they are not getting.

 

[Pyro]

I have had 2 raff growing on windowsills just fine. One is just a small plant ~10cm across the other was 60cm tall and about the same across...

 

[RL7836]

After looking around and doing some research, it seems that N. Raff is fairly forgiving when it comes to temp/humidity after it gets acclimatized. But reading is different from people's personal experience. Do you all believe that one could grow one on a windowsill, facing normal temps of high 60s to mid 70s, and humidity fluctuating around the 50s and 60s, or would one be issuing a death sentence?

I seem to recall that elgecko's 'magic window' conditions are in this ballpark.

 

[Capensis]

Can A ventrata grow on a windowsill?

Yep.

 

[Nepfreak]

Here's what happened to mine when I moved it to a very un-humid window after terrarium life:

- immediately dried out leaves, curled up to a crisp. The new tendril stayed hydrated though.
- After something like 3 months, the leaf had opened all the way.
- maybe 6 months after moving it to the sill, it sent out a pitcher.
- Continued to grow slowly, sending out a pitcher every 4 months or so. The pitchers were HUGE though.

So basically it will probably survive and pitcher for you, but not like the ones you see in the hothouses.