Experimental growing Cephalotus in beach dune sand

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Looks great mobile, how often are you watering?

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Wow! Insane coloration - especially for pubescent pitchers. The dark colors on my Cephalotus 'Czech Giant' did not show up until the adult pitchers....

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Looks great mobile, how often are you watering?

It sits in a pot saucer, which I fill with RO/rainwater and allow to empty before re-watering. I am keen on the saucer watering method for Cephalotus if used in conjunction with a well drained soil mix.

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It sits in a pot saucer, which I fill with RO/rainwater and allow to empty before re-watering. I am keen on the saucer watering method for Cephalotus if used in conjunction with a well drained soil mix.

Wow very impressing, I never expected such a wicking effect with pure sand. Seems like there's even enough moisture to sustain algae on the surface! When it's all said and done I'd love to see the root structure

[mobile]

Wow very impressing, I never expected such a wicking effect with pure sand. Seems like there's even enough moisture to sustain algae on the surface! When it's all said and done I'd love to see the root structure

It's not pure sand...

The pot is filled with a 50/50 mix of peat and dune sand, with a top 1cm layer of just dune sand. The seedling was taken from its existing pot with a plug of moss peat and planted into the sand, with the lower part of the plug coming into contact with the peat/sand mix below.

and I'm not sure that the green is algae...

I've been told that the green growth is most likely Cyanophyta.

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Ahh thanks for the clarification, I should have read the text. I was going strictly by the picture.! A strictly sand media experiment may be in order

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Colouration is getting better. I don't know if this is due to the dune sand or the lighting, but another plant that I have under similar lighting doesn't show such colouration.

Are the two light setup the same color temp?

Is one of the lights much older than the other?

This just adds to me thinking that light levels are not the driving factor in Ceph color, more of a trigger when other factors are met.

[mobile]

Ahh thanks for the clarification, I should have read the text. I was going strictly by the picture.! A strictly sand media experiment may be in order

I have some spare seedlings which I might experiment with in the new year.

Are the two light setup the same color temp?

Is one of the lights much older than the other?

This just adds to me thinking that light levels are not the driving factor in Ceph color, more of a trigger when other factors are met.

The experiment is not controlled enough to draw any conclusions. I have been swapping lights around between warm/daylight LEDs and CFL. This plant is currently under a white LED and has developed the colouration since being placed under it.