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TL;DR: Causalities.

So, I experimentally tried a 6/6/6/6 lighting cycle (instead of my normal 12/12) for some of the plants. It mutated some, killed others, stressed all of them. The nepenthes suffered the worst, and I lost a lot of the experimental plants. EVERY PLANT IN THE EXPERIMENTAL GROUP WAS MUTATED BY THIS.

ALL nepenthes were mutated. 40% died. Death rate may increase as the mutated plants seem to be dropping off still.

ALL drosera were mutated.

20% of the butterworts died.

Needless to say, I WILL NOT be attempting this again.

Can you explain what you mean by mutated? Just deformities in general, or something else?

Leathal_Traps wrote:Can you explain what you mean by mutated? Just deformities in general, or something else?

I'll post a few photos when I get off the road. Mostly short leaves that failed to fully form, along with dead spots along the edges.

I wouldn't expect the plants to like it, but I would not have guessed they'd react THAT badly. I'm curious, why did you decide to perform this experiment?

nimbulan wrote:I wouldn't expect the plants to like it, but I would not have guessed they'd react THAT badly. I'm curious, why did you decide to perform this experiment?

Read it on a forum somewhere, and someone indicated they had good results. I call shenanigans.

Oh No! That's awful

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Wow. That seems very conclusive!