@ Wasted:
Thanks for joining in mate. Glad to know more on how you grow this beauty. I didn't know that it was growing in such a media. I thought your percentage of chopped sphagnum was a lot higher. As I always keep saying, good job mate! Keep us posted when it makes the transition to adult pithers.
Good to hear your input regarding the usage of sphagnum. As I will describe further on...my watering routine has been thrashed since i got a new light fixture which is causing heat making me implement air circulation in the enclousure. that is killing humidity which is causing my moss to dry and die. I Know that your humidity during day is also 60%. How does your live moss fare?? Thanks.
@ Phil,
hmmm!!! Repotting eh
Well! I still have to atleast wait till the beginning of may to head back home, gather all the constituents of the mix and so on.
I am also currently having issues with the balance of HEAT, humidity and lighting...as a result of increased air circulation that is causing humidity drop to 50's and all my live sphagnum layers on all the pots is going white and dry.
I am just getting a new humidifier and I am going to see what that can do.
As a result of the EXCESS watering I have to do everyday to keep the moss alive....the media is becoming very very very wet. I can see through the netted pot and damn! the LFS is wet. I am not really very happy about that and I am still working on a solution. I am guessing that is just accelerating the decay of the media.
LFS attracts worms to the mix
The only thing I see in my plant pots is something which are the size of springtails. Very very small... less than a mm sized little silvery/black bugs that are normally around the rich nectar regions of both my CEPHS and my neps.
lol Phil! Interesting experience regarding the burbidgeae especially as it grows alongside the N.rajah in the wild. DOesn't the temp. on Mt. Kinabalu go below 50's occassionally?? I know its a beautiful plant as well...but I think I need a greenhouse before I get that one.
lol!
The rajah holds a special place for me. However, there are a few other plants (which are probably the favourites of almost every nepenthes cultivator) which I would love and envision to one day grow: N.edwardsiana, N.villosa, N.macrophylla, N.teuis, N.spec. nov. DA, N.sp1 (Wistuba), N.flava & N.jamban. For now the first one is probably more of a fantasy than reality as there are probably a handful of those around the world in cultivation. But...one day...I sure want to have one of them. Alongside the villosa, its among the most regal plants I have ever seen. YUp!!! the teeth...lol!