- Mon Nov 15, 2010 9:40 am
#76036
Hello peoples!
I'll try not to waffle
Up until a couple of weeks ago I've been keeping my VFT inside on the window sill, it's the sunniest window sill in the house and gets approx 4 hours of direct sunlight a day (through the window of course). A couple of weeks ago though my (overly?) simplistic brain figured the more sunlight the better and on most mornings have been walking my VFT to the deck outside where it can get 12+ hours of sunlight and bringing it back in sometime before sunset. If it's been very overcast or raining I've just left Charlie on the windowsill.
It occurs to me now though that maybe I'm doing more harm than good shifting Charlie around so much? Should I just leave him in one location? I thought other than the amount of sun the conditions were fairly similar but then again I'm not a VFT so maybe I'm underestimating the differences. The reason I ask is that I'm 99% sure Charlie is looking a lot more pale than what he used to, I tried looking back at some old photos but it seems the lighting in the pictures is always slightly different and affecting the colour a bit. He's also lost most of the red inside his traps, in a few the red-ish colour has even gone somewhat patchy but with new traps coming up for some reason they're very red in colour... new shoots have always been green as far as I remember.
Other than that he seems OK... I'm just worried I'm stressing him unnecessarily? Am I being paranoid?
In unrelated stuff I was trying to get four flower stalks to strike but I was out of town for six days and I think the top layer of medium dried out quite a bit and three of them look to have perished, I've left them undisturbed in the off chance there is something going on underneath but I'm not holding my breath Here's the only one that looks like it still has life in it:
When I returned from my trip I was pleasantly surprised though that Charlie had shot up another flower stalk so I left it a few more days to grow a bit and just planted it today.
Thanks,
Scuzzles
I'll try not to waffle
Up until a couple of weeks ago I've been keeping my VFT inside on the window sill, it's the sunniest window sill in the house and gets approx 4 hours of direct sunlight a day (through the window of course). A couple of weeks ago though my (overly?) simplistic brain figured the more sunlight the better and on most mornings have been walking my VFT to the deck outside where it can get 12+ hours of sunlight and bringing it back in sometime before sunset. If it's been very overcast or raining I've just left Charlie on the windowsill.
It occurs to me now though that maybe I'm doing more harm than good shifting Charlie around so much? Should I just leave him in one location? I thought other than the amount of sun the conditions were fairly similar but then again I'm not a VFT so maybe I'm underestimating the differences. The reason I ask is that I'm 99% sure Charlie is looking a lot more pale than what he used to, I tried looking back at some old photos but it seems the lighting in the pictures is always slightly different and affecting the colour a bit. He's also lost most of the red inside his traps, in a few the red-ish colour has even gone somewhat patchy but with new traps coming up for some reason they're very red in colour... new shoots have always been green as far as I remember.
Other than that he seems OK... I'm just worried I'm stressing him unnecessarily? Am I being paranoid?
In unrelated stuff I was trying to get four flower stalks to strike but I was out of town for six days and I think the top layer of medium dried out quite a bit and three of them look to have perished, I've left them undisturbed in the off chance there is something going on underneath but I'm not holding my breath Here's the only one that looks like it still has life in it:
When I returned from my trip I was pleasantly surprised though that Charlie had shot up another flower stalk so I left it a few more days to grow a bit and just planted it today.
Thanks,
Scuzzles
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