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hen the daylight levels get lower I will increase the photoperiod
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Give neps 16 hours of light all 365 days of the year. There is no reason to mess with their photo period whatsoever.

and it will reach it's peak when its the winter equinox hmm perhaps 20 hours.
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Way too much light. And winter's already over...I assume you mean summer?
 
glider14 said:
not quite...they may not be fond of terrariums...but they grow their stock inside greenhouses...which have high humidity and obscured light. seveal plants i got from them took a nose dive when i thought they were all OK with lower humidity. you dont expect to get a rajah or lowii from them and it be fully adjusted to low humidity do you?

Alex
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they do have a section of there greenhouse that they mist and I believe that section includes lowii, hamata and rajah.
most of there nepenthes they sell you would be safe putting on a window and then there are "crazy" people lik ElGecko who has his rajah growing on a windowsill.
 
phissionkorps said:
Give neps 16 hours of light all 365 days of the year. There is no reason to mess with their photo period whatsoever.


Way too much light. And winter's already over...I assume you mean summer?
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no they were not growing on my window last winter, they are now though, I mean next winter.
and sun is stronger than fluorescents so I can't see why 20 hours of fluorescents would hurt them when the sunlight is less concentrated during winter and the days get shorter.
 
phissionkorps said:
Are you seriously trying to tell me you have 20 hours of sun in the winter?
Plants need at least 8 hours of "sleep".
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No I'm saying that we have little to no sun during winter and the skies are overcast so I was going to leave fluorescents on for 20 hours so the plants still get lots of light since I grow them in full sun during summer and spring. How about leaving the lights on 17 hours? I would start out with like 8 and then 10 and then 12 and then like 16-17 maybe 18 but I guess 20 is not popular.
 
because Nepenthes are equitorial plants. naturally they would only get 12 hours. 16 hours is already over board sorta. and a plant will fizzle into nothing if it gets no darkness, in the "same" way we will die if we dont get sleep.

another point to state is that for the most part, Nepenthes dont get blasting full sun in the wild. more like dappled light and the like. 16 hours of fluorescent light is like 12 hours of dappled light....sorta.

Alex
 
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