This is the third part of this post.
My very first intent when I started to grow Heliamphora in low humidity was to set some test plants in the garden in summertime - by summer time, I refer, broadly, to spring and summer.
One month ago, on a sunny day, I placed two pots of Heliamphora heterodoxa (Gran Sabana) along my Nepenthes bokorensis and some Sarracenia. The plants quickly turned red and lost a few pitchers. But so far, they behave remarkably well though. All I do is keep sure they stand in a few centimetres of water.
We had a sunny spell of several weeks here and almost no rain (unfortunately because my water butts are empty!) and I can say that my sunpitchers have adjusted to their harsh conditions pretty well. Their colors are vibrant and I think that next year, I shall reconduct this experience with some other "easy" species and hybrids. At the moment, I will only keep on the experiment with those two heterodoxa plants. I'll let them outdoors until early fall and we'll see what happens.
But I'm confident ;-)
Nice plants. I envy you :))
ReplyDeleteUsed to be so unsure and completely worried about growing heliamphora, and though i don't even own one(i do grow 2 hybrid nepenthes though as windowsill plants). But in the future i think i will try to grow the some of the common heliamphora species. Never knew that they were that adaptable.
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