Well, I have had a ceph for almost a year now, for the last few months it has been in my terrarium, but it's not huge, it's been growing the same size pitchers since I got it... and I am starting to wonder if I just don't have good conditions for it...
Any how, I was wondering if anyone with ALOT of ceph experience would mind giving us the rundown on this plants sluggish crawl to maturity. My traps are about 1.2 centimeters in heigth, the plant has 4 rosettes, which I guess I could probably divide... but I am scared to...
I would like to know how long it is going to take this plant to become a bruser!
OH, and the light it gets is the same as my nepenthes get, they seem happy... it's in a high humidity tank, and it's planted in peat, orchid bark mix, perlite, and long fiber sphagnum, at about five inches in depth...
When I got it, the root structure was almost non-existent, do you think maybe it has been putting all it's energy int building nice roots? I still don't think the roots are all that hot, and it was my understanding they sent out deep tap roots... I had to move it a month ago, and the soil clup I grabbed held all the roots, and that was smaller than a tennis ball... to be fair, the plant could be wadded up tenderly and occupy the same space as a golf ball in size...
THe plant is green, I guess it could use more light, but that is not gonna happen, I have all the light in that terrarium that I can get...
What are it's temps like in nature? I have been thinking about using this mild winter to harden it off in my enclosed patio (humidity around 60% never drops below 60, and then trying to grow it in a relatively shaded area outdoors this summer, where the temp can get up to 102 in the afternoon (Not in shade)...
ANy thoughts? If I do try it outdoors, I will be buying more plants from Phil and Jaie when they become available, just so I don't lose it all...
Any how, I was wondering if anyone with ALOT of ceph experience would mind giving us the rundown on this plants sluggish crawl to maturity. My traps are about 1.2 centimeters in heigth, the plant has 4 rosettes, which I guess I could probably divide... but I am scared to...
I would like to know how long it is going to take this plant to become a bruser!
OH, and the light it gets is the same as my nepenthes get, they seem happy... it's in a high humidity tank, and it's planted in peat, orchid bark mix, perlite, and long fiber sphagnum, at about five inches in depth...
When I got it, the root structure was almost non-existent, do you think maybe it has been putting all it's energy int building nice roots? I still don't think the roots are all that hot, and it was my understanding they sent out deep tap roots... I had to move it a month ago, and the soil clup I grabbed held all the roots, and that was smaller than a tennis ball... to be fair, the plant could be wadded up tenderly and occupy the same space as a golf ball in size...
THe plant is green, I guess it could use more light, but that is not gonna happen, I have all the light in that terrarium that I can get...
What are it's temps like in nature? I have been thinking about using this mild winter to harden it off in my enclosed patio (humidity around 60% never drops below 60, and then trying to grow it in a relatively shaded area outdoors this summer, where the temp can get up to 102 in the afternoon (Not in shade)...
ANy thoughts? If I do try it outdoors, I will be buying more plants from Phil and Jaie when they become available, just so I don't lose it all...