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Sarracenia leucophylla

  • #21
Yes but insolation is an important factor in which you have more of.
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  • #22
And the difference is even more notable as we head into fall, the time we're hoping for those big pitchers to grow. Even though the sun still shines for >12 hours now, only a few hours in the middle of the day have the high angle, intense sun the plants crave. The sun angle now is equivalent to early April.
 
  • #23
</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (nepenthes gracilis @ Sep. 05 2003,10:39)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Light is what NY state gets which isn't very much for Sarracenia's as you and I know!
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I think we are going off on a tangent here...besides, I am not sold on the the Light argument - yet.  I lived 1 hour south of where I am now and had the most beautiful Sarracenias around, except for leucophylla.

I don't buy that light is a factor in producing the large fall crop of pitchers.  I think it certainly is a factor in producing coloration, but not in producing pitchers.  Just look at the immature pitchers that Nepenthes Gracilis showed us in his/her pictures:  they have already begun to produce the large fall pitchers.

Nepenthes Gracilis: You did not tell us how wet you grow your plants in the summer.  I am starting to think that S. leucophylla needs to be wet during the summer growing season in order for it to produce the nice pitchers.  

Any additional thoughts??
 
  • #24
Hey Utric man, BTW I'm a man. Anyhow yes I belive this species loves to be wet myself. I got beautiful fall pitchers, and it looks like they are coming up again this year to put on a show I am hoping. I am repotting it to a shallower pot sometime I think, but I built a large capacity water tray in the greenhouse in which the water cna become quite deep, so far so good we shall se how the pitchers come up.
 
  • #25
</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (nepenthes gracilis @ Sep. 09 2003,10:19)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">...but I built a large capacity water tray in the greenhouse in which the water cna become quite deep, so far so good we shall se how the pitchers come up.[/QUOTE]<span id='postcolor'>
So, I am confused, do you grow your plants outside or in a greenhouse? Greenhouse conditions are quite different from outdoor conditions...
 
  • #26
They are in a greenhouse at the moment, this year the chipmunks were driving me nuts with digging and such so they are in the greenhouse for this year's end.
 
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