- Thu Nov 29, 2018 7:04 am
#325810
Hey everyone, for those of you with good memory, you might have remembered a brief period where I was posting about my attempt to grow P. elongata (would have been from around Dec 2016 through March 2017). The one plant that survived for those months (I received three initially, two died fast) died once spring started to come around. So far, the only diagnosis I can make for that failure is that it was due to night temps getting too high. So, this time around, I have done something to remedy that: a chest freezer.
With the chest freezer, I am able to drop nights into the low 40s (thermostat is set to 42, I need to get one that will let me go below 40 though; I received the plants right before I left on vacation, as I had forgot they were coming, and so had to setup the whole grow area in a few hours, which meant a last minute run to a grow shop). So far, the plants have only been looking better and better. I received them towards the end of June, around the 22nd I believe. They do well, and have plenty of dew and steady growth, but do not color up well. I will have to either try to increase the light output (currently I am using a 2 ft 4 bulb T5HO fixture), or perhaps simply drop the temps closer to freezing at night. The leaves still have deformities from when they were more curled in on each other, as the curled-in leaves cause each consecutive leaf to form that way in a positive feedback loop. I don't actually have a recent pic of the highly-curled plant; I had taken one earlier but it is rather blurry and so I'll get a better one tomorrow.
Plants from late September/early October Healthy roots Plants now This one appears to have a double flower, but unfortunately is still obscured by leaves I was half expecting this one to not make it for a long time since it looked so unwell, but it seems to have pulled through
With the chest freezer, I am able to drop nights into the low 40s (thermostat is set to 42, I need to get one that will let me go below 40 though; I received the plants right before I left on vacation, as I had forgot they were coming, and so had to setup the whole grow area in a few hours, which meant a last minute run to a grow shop). So far, the plants have only been looking better and better. I received them towards the end of June, around the 22nd I believe. They do well, and have plenty of dew and steady growth, but do not color up well. I will have to either try to increase the light output (currently I am using a 2 ft 4 bulb T5HO fixture), or perhaps simply drop the temps closer to freezing at night. The leaves still have deformities from when they were more curled in on each other, as the curled-in leaves cause each consecutive leaf to form that way in a positive feedback loop. I don't actually have a recent pic of the highly-curled plant; I had taken one earlier but it is rather blurry and so I'll get a better one tomorrow.
Plants from late September/early October Healthy roots Plants now This one appears to have a double flower, but unfortunately is still obscured by leaves I was half expecting this one to not make it for a long time since it looked so unwell, but it seems to have pulled through
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