Picture time!
My new setup (Not included my growlight and dews, since I still havent figured out where Im putting all that. They're hitchiking on the window for now)
I decided to ditch the grow tent for one reason, I had to remember to turn the fan on and off every day, otherwise it would bake in the sun. I wasnt allowed to sleep in on weekends cause if it wasnt turned on by 10AM its be over 100F in there! Furthermore the humidity during the day with the fans (which were neccessary to manage temperatures) could easily drop to 40% if I didnt mist it several times a day. The only upsides of this tent was the night time humidity (80%.)
Here during the winter even, I am maintaining a steady 50% humidity without a tent, and I no longer have any temperature issues, so thats a big plus in my opinion. Also, since all of my plants are intermediates or otherwise hardy hybrids, I dont expect any issues with these conditions, in fact I havent even noticed any of my plants slowing down or showing stress, I think since they were only in transit for about an hour they havent even noticed the change. Which is good!
Unfortunately I had to trim off all of the pitchers on my spathulata x robcantleyi in order for it to be removed from the grow tent, so here is a picture of them all sitting in a tray
The center one is the oldest pitcher, the left one is second to oldest, an dthe right one is the newest, you can definitely tell by the size difference!
Snow!
N. ventricosa "red" has already put out a new pitcher.
And here is some more of its other pitcher (can you tell I like that pitcher?)
N. burkei has started making some toothy peristomes!
N. burkei "madjah as" vine cutting is slowly but surely putting out leaves. None of the tendrils have dried up on any of them either, so hopefully Ill start seeing some baby pitchers soon!
N. hamata x spathulata vine cutting is making some progress!
On a side note, I culled all but six of my D. capensis seedlings. There were probably twenty each in 3 inch pots and I hadnt repotted them for, what, almost two years now..?
Their growth had slowed down dramatically and they all started looking a bit ill. So I decided to quit neglecting them, chose the six largest ones and to my surprise.. they each had 7 inch long roots. In a 3 x 3 pot crowded with dozens of other capensis. Eek!
So the six chosen (3 "wides" and 3 "albas") have been thrown into a much larger pot to grow together. Ill post pictures of the arrangement once they start looking better, but at the moment theyre all pretty ugly to look at.
Well thats all for now!