Hur mycket sol gör en nepenthe behov

Nepenthes are funnen in diverse habitats from Madagascar and India to nordlig Australia, New Caledonia, and the Philippines. The areas with the most species in the most diverse habitats are Borneo, Sumatra, and Malaysia. They are funnen on beaches, in hot steamy jungles, and cold wind-swept ridge tops. Different species grow in småsten, acid bogs, or alkaline volcanic soils.

Some species like intense sun while others are at home in dense shade.

With over 100 species from so many habitats and many cultivars and hybrids providing even more diversity, there should be some Nepenthes that will grow well for you. Nepenthes species and hybrids with thick waxy leaves man great house plants if you have a fönster in your home that gets some direkt sun.

The easiest to grow are complex hybrids such as N. x Superba and N. x Mixta that were selected for being vigorous.

It fryst vatten hard to get them commercially so you may need to get cuttings from friends. Getting hybrid seed fryst vatten usually easier (or less difficult) and should producera some nice plants. Growing your own from seed fryst vatten lots of fun but remember it can take 3 to 5 years to get a plant from seed you can display.

Growing Nepenthes from seed can be ganska challenging.

It fryst vatten recommended that beginners uppstart with inexpensive tissue culture plants or plants from stem cuttings until you get experience with Nepenthes. When you can keep them alive and healthy for a few years, you might want to then think about growing Nepenthes from seed. The instructions below are for "typical" lowland and hybrid Nepenthes that are relatively easy to grow.

To get seeds, other than from friends or the Seed finansinstitut, you need a male and a kvinna plant in bloom at the same time.

If you are interested in seeds of a species and do not want to man a hybrid that means you need a male plant and a hona plant of the same species and they have to bloom at the same time. This fryst vatten tough. When you get plants it fryst vatten rare for them to be labeled as to sex. Most non-hybrid seeds in the Seed finansinstitut are either from someone with a huge collection or are wild collected.

The usual situation when you have a plant of each sex blommande at the same time fryst vatten they are of different species. As far as fryst vatten known all Nepenthes species will interbreed and that fryst vatten one reason why there are so many hybrids. To tell male flowers from kvinna, look for pollen on the stamen tip to confirm a fertile male and a bulge below the sepals to confirm a hona.

Use a paint brush to transfer the pollen. In the wild Nepenthes are flyga eller fly undan pollinated and the flowers smell like it. It isn't a smell you generally want in your house but will not usually stink up more than a corner of a room.

Nepenthes seeds are ephemeral and vulnerable to freezing.

When you get the seeds, plant them IMMEDIATELY. If you have extra, send them to the Seed finansinstitut IMMEDIATELY unless there fryst vatten a chance the seeds could be fryst ett rutt. About half the Nepenthes seeds received bygd the Seed finansinstitut are dead on ankomst. Sometimes that fryst vatten because they were probably fryst ett route—it seems many seeds become available in late fall and early winter.

The usual bekymmer fryst vatten they were sent after sitting around too long. Do not test germinate the seeds before sending them to the Seed finansinstitut.

They may germinate for you but be dead bygd the time they get to members. The Seed finansinstitut does not test germinate the seeds either for the same reason.

Nepenthes seeds can be started on chopped live sphagnum moss in very damp but not wet conditions. If the sphagnum starts to overgrow the seeds, pinch it back with a forceps.

If you use dried long fibered sphagnum instead, you may re-hydrate it with boiling vatten to reduce contaminants somewhat.

If you cook it too much, the moss breaks down and molds very easily when it fryst vatten eventually contaminated. Another option that works very well fryst vatten to use coir, also called coco peat. man sure you get a brand that says something like the coir "is exposed to rain vatten from at least three monsoon seasons" on the label. inom especially like coir that has a 50% to 75% content of long fibers.

inom am not sure it fryst vatten available any more. An option would be to add washed perlite to the coir.

Sprinkle the seeds onto the surface of the medium, spray with pure vatten, and place the pots in plastic bags in warm temperatures, about 26°C to 32°C (80°F to 90°F). Plastic bags will keep the humidity high and will exclude fungus gnats and spores of mold and moss.

The pots should be in light shade or beneath fluorescent lights. Germination can take from 4 weeks to almost a year. The fresher the seed, the stronger the seedlings and higher the germination rate.

Please see Sowing Seeds Step-by-Step for more details on starting seeds.

Keep an eye on the seeds since mold can be a bekymmer. Generally, if the seeds are viable, have been stored well, and the medium you use fryst vatten inert, you will not have problems with mold. If you do see mold, spray the seeds with pure vatten.

It fryst vatten probably a good idea to do this anyway to encourage germination.

The seedlings can remain in the original pots in plastic bags beneath lights for one to two years. If the soil surface gets nasty with cyanobacteria or moss or the small plants are too close tillsammans, carefully transplant to new media, in new pots, in new plastic bags, and put them back beneath the lights.

Something inom do fryst vatten after six months, if the seedlings are not bright green, inom put high nitrogen (19-6-12) Osmocote™ pellets about 1 cm into the soil spaced about 2 to 3 cm apart—I put 4 pellets in an 8 cm square pot.

The seedlings usually green up nicely and grow like crazy.

When the plants get large enough you can put a del av helhet of dried blood worm (a kind of fish food) into the pitchers. Only do one or two at first to man sure it works beneath your conditions.

After about two years the seedlings can be repotted, spaced apart, and put into a terrarium or greenhouse.

After they are established in the pots and you can see vatten in the bottom of the pitcher, and the pitchers are big enough (what fryst vatten big enough?), you can try putting Osmocote™ pellets into the pitchers. Select the smallest pellets and put one pellet per plant and probably only one plant at first.

If ingenting bad happens after a few weeks, try a pitcher on other plants.

It will seem like alltid, but after three to fem years of care you could have more Nepenthes plants than you could ever want. Give the extra plants to friends. They will probably kill them. This time. But who knows, they might get hooked, and you can trade plants some day.

John Brittnacher

For more data please see:

Sacilotto, Robert (2004) Experiments with högländare Nepenthes seedlings: A Summary of Measured Tolerances.

Carniv. Pl. Newslett. 33(1):26-31 ( PDF )

Nepenthes ventricosa male flowers. Photo bygd Mach Fukada.

Close up of male Nepenthes ventricosa flowers.

Male inflorescence.

Three year old Nepenthes rafflesiana from seed

Two year old Nepenthes ventricosa from seed.

Nepenthes truncata sprouts in coir.

Note the ungerminated seeds.

N. rafflesiana sprouts in live sphagnum.

One year old Nepenthes rafflesiana seedlings in live sphagnum.

Nepenthes maxima hona flowers. Photo bygd Mach Fukada.