Thanks for the kind words, guys! I've had these plants for about two weeks, but they’re really growing like their life depended on it.
Here in Taipei, Northern Taiwan, only summer and fall are really tropical. In winter, the temperatures dip down below 70, so I decided to stick the shrubbery in an in-house tank, much to the derision of my Taiwanese CP growing friends, who mostly leave their plants outside all through the winter, covered in plastic bags, with only the less adventurous minds taking them inside their (unheated) houses during January and February.
Of course, being the Persnickety Teuton Heathen that I am (“vee haff vays to make yoo grow!”), as well as an utter, sad nOoB (only been CP'ing since August), I couldn't bear the thought of my plants freezing their cute little pitchers off in the bitter, bitter cold of 60 degrees Fahrenheit, so I slapped two terrariums together for them. Humidity is never really an issue around these parts - it’s still around 65 now -, I’m lighting each tank with a four-tube, 128 Watts barrage, AND I have installed a heating rock (hey, anything worth doing is worth overdoing!), so almost all of my plants are experiencing quite scary growth rates.
I bought the khasiana in September, put it on the porch, and it immediately started growing cute little two-inch pitchers at a steady rate. Two days after I’d brought her into the tank, the first Mighty Mutant Monster Mug started appearing, soon overtaking the height of the darn POT! Now the second one’s under way, and (as I’ve stated elsewhere) I’ve taken to sleeping with a spray can of Agent Orange under my pillow….
Same with the mirabilis: as of this morning, that pitcher is four inches tall, not open yet, but was just a teensy half-inch bud when I bought it 11 days ago.
Only the darn bellii won’t grow any faster (that’s why I’ve hung it closer to the light). I sure wish it would – I’m sick of having to enjoy its beauty with a %$#@!! magnifying glass!
Cheers and Happy Christmas/Holidays/Kwanzaa etc. to y’all and your plants, er, families!
TwoTon
PS: Yes, the sundew behind the Raff is a paradoxa