My Terrarium and some other plants! ;)
Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2012 6:19 am
This is my new terrarium, I have been working on it for about a month now. Now that the plants are settle, i just thought about posting pics of it! 
In the terrarium there are:
1 heli minor
1 ceph
1 drosera capensis
2-3 drosera capensis alba
1-2 drosera albino
5-8 several drosera burmanniees.
6 nepenthes: rajah, lowii, sanguinea orange, ventricosa, ramispina
1 VFT
1 clump of U. Sandersonii
1 clump of U. Longifolia
several strands of spanish moss( not really a moss, but a bromeliad)
1tillandsia ionantha: fuego, rosita, conehead.
and still need to add a pinguicula suitable for a terrarium!
For those who wonder how i'm keeping the heli and ceph together without much problem. the trick to this is that for both plants, the roots are "hanging" in a hole below the moss, and the surrounding has stones. so both plants receive enough humidity specially for the Heli, but the water ( i use a spray bottle) just drips directly into the big cracks, the roots only touch the water drops for a very little amount of time i'm guessing( since i can't look below the soil), and then fall directly down to the bottom, the plant receives good air circulation although i don't use a fan, and sounds like all plants are doing fine. I have created a micro ecosystem inside a large micro ecosystem! and all with the same requirements, simply add the stones for the ones that need it and you're good to go!
The media below is silica sand, then very little peat moss, and then Long fiber spaghnum moss, then the live moss. temps in the day: 70F, and 60F in the night, or colder at times.
Apart from receiving light from the grow panel 45, i leave the curtains open, so they get natural light as well,and about 20 or so minutes of filter sunlight from the really late afternoon.
VFT in-vitro with flowerstalk! This one by the size of the plant, looks like an 3 year old vft.
Some sarracenias seedlings, these babies are receiving light from a regular light bulb. They germinated two days later after i sow them. They had a rest period of 9 months, so that explains everything! Next to that container, there are more sarra seedlings germinating, and ceph pulling.
Drosera gemmae germinating and growing well:
Live moss growing outside in temps of 50F-25F, they are receiving all the sun light they can, and natural daylight as well, i hope to have a good colony of it! :
Darlingtonia Californica, The larger ones i bought in Ebay, the other one i bought from the http://www.flytrapstore.com , and is a cute little guy, I have to say that for the price, the plant is of a really good size if you think about how long it will take to grow one to that size.
Sarracenia Leuchopylla Hurricane Creek:
S. Purpurea:
S. X Catesbaei:
Temperate pings:
Echeveria Glauca,and lithops:
By the way, these beauties truly look like this, they are getting all the morning, and part of the noon sun, plus getting natural daylight all day long, These might be dormant but they look better as far as color, they have more amazing colors in winter than in summer, that is just my opinion though. (honestly, they look better all year long )
Spanish moss hanging. my plans with this moss is to eventually cover the entire floor of this moss,and hang it, and i plan to do this with the tropical greenhouse.
D.Tracyi:
Fused tooth:
In the terrarium there are:
1 heli minor
1 ceph
1 drosera capensis
2-3 drosera capensis alba
1-2 drosera albino
5-8 several drosera burmanniees.
6 nepenthes: rajah, lowii, sanguinea orange, ventricosa, ramispina
1 VFT
1 clump of U. Sandersonii
1 clump of U. Longifolia
several strands of spanish moss( not really a moss, but a bromeliad)
1tillandsia ionantha: fuego, rosita, conehead.
and still need to add a pinguicula suitable for a terrarium!
For those who wonder how i'm keeping the heli and ceph together without much problem. the trick to this is that for both plants, the roots are "hanging" in a hole below the moss, and the surrounding has stones. so both plants receive enough humidity specially for the Heli, but the water ( i use a spray bottle) just drips directly into the big cracks, the roots only touch the water drops for a very little amount of time i'm guessing( since i can't look below the soil), and then fall directly down to the bottom, the plant receives good air circulation although i don't use a fan, and sounds like all plants are doing fine. I have created a micro ecosystem inside a large micro ecosystem! and all with the same requirements, simply add the stones for the ones that need it and you're good to go!
The media below is silica sand, then very little peat moss, and then Long fiber spaghnum moss, then the live moss. temps in the day: 70F, and 60F in the night, or colder at times.
Apart from receiving light from the grow panel 45, i leave the curtains open, so they get natural light as well,and about 20 or so minutes of filter sunlight from the really late afternoon.
VFT in-vitro with flowerstalk! This one by the size of the plant, looks like an 3 year old vft.
Some sarracenias seedlings, these babies are receiving light from a regular light bulb. They germinated two days later after i sow them. They had a rest period of 9 months, so that explains everything! Next to that container, there are more sarra seedlings germinating, and ceph pulling.
Drosera gemmae germinating and growing well:
Live moss growing outside in temps of 50F-25F, they are receiving all the sun light they can, and natural daylight as well, i hope to have a good colony of it! :
Darlingtonia Californica, The larger ones i bought in Ebay, the other one i bought from the http://www.flytrapstore.com , and is a cute little guy, I have to say that for the price, the plant is of a really good size if you think about how long it will take to grow one to that size.
Sarracenia Leuchopylla Hurricane Creek:
S. Purpurea:
S. X Catesbaei:
Temperate pings:
Echeveria Glauca,and lithops:
By the way, these beauties truly look like this, they are getting all the morning, and part of the noon sun, plus getting natural daylight all day long, These might be dormant but they look better as far as color, they have more amazing colors in winter than in summer, that is just my opinion though. (honestly, they look better all year long
)
Spanish moss hanging. my plans with this moss is to eventually cover the entire floor of this moss,and hang it, and i plan to do this with the tropical greenhouse.
D.Tracyi:
Fused tooth:
). Best of luck and I hope you'll update us later in the year!