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HarrisAz wrote:Steve,i wonder how do you grow yours in your hot climate there?My climate is not only hot but dry. Heliamphora are supposed to like cool and humid to downright constantly damp. However, I have been trying to grow them without taking any extra or exceptional precautions.
Steve_D wrote:They won't die however unless they are kept too wet for too long, in which case they can be susceptible to rot. They seem to tolerate being grown in medium that is drier most of the time than one would normally keep Venus Flytrap growing medium. Heliamphora seem to die more quickly if kept too wet rather than too dry, is what I'm saying, just from my own experience.My experience with Heliamphora is similar to Steve's. I have perhaps a hundred of them now out of tissue culture. The only ones I've lost have died because I kept them too wet and had them in media that held water for too long and was too dense (my normal flytrap media).
ReefPlant wrote:If you want, i have a couple divisions of H. minor i could probably get one together for you in the near future. I would also be glad to help you grow them. They are tough but you just have to cover a couple bases. I'm no pitcher plant guru but my Helis seem happy so i could at least tell you what i do for my group.I'd love to, tell me when one of the divisions is ready and PM me and we can try and work something out
Thanks Dantt99! Let me know!
HarrisAz wrote:but i wonder why they survive at their home where it is constanly wet and sometimes submersed in water plus cool temperature and high humidity..I've wondered the same thing. I've seen lots of photos of them sitting in water. But I've never actually been to any of the Tepuis nor seen anyone chronicle a year's worth of weather on a tepui. My guess is that perhaps even though it rains a lot there, there can be periods of dry spells. Given that the tepuis are mostly rock, any rain that falls quickly runs off. When a few days go by without any rain or very little rain, my guess is that things get quite dry. I don't know how often this happens, but I don't think that these plants are standing in water all the time in their native habitat like so many of the photos we've seen of them.
Steve_D wrote:So wait... Do you grow them outside or in a terrarium? I am having humidity and tempurature troubles if I even try to grow plants outside of my greenhouse! Im in so-cal so its really dry and hot here! Do you grow any plants outside?HarrisAz wrote:Steve,i wonder how do you grow yours in your hot climate there?My climate is not only hot but dry. Heliamphora are supposed to like cool and humid to downright constantly damp. However, I have been trying to grow them without taking any extra or exceptional precautions.
What I've found out so far is that Heliamphora can adapt to hotter, drier conditions but will grow slowly and not as large or luxuriant. They won't die however unless they are kept too wet for too long, in which case they can be susceptible to rot. They seem to tolerate being grown in medium that is drier most of the time than one would normally keep Venus Flytrap growing medium. Heliamphora seem to die more quickly if kept too wet rather than too dry, is what I'm saying, just from my own experience.
So far, they slow their growth during very hot weather, but it does not kill them. They grow more conservatively and smaller when the humidity stays very low most of the time, but that does not kill them.
HarrisAz wrote:The bacteria one sounds logic,I think that clip is from a TV show, the private life of plants by UK narratology David Attenborough, which a nepenthes was named after him! He has done a lot of narrating for carnivorous plant shows.
if you see in Vid at Utube of recorded helis at the top of the mountain,the water runs all the time on their rootstocks and it doesnt sit there standing,and the water keeps on changing with new fresh water.
And yes at Tepui,its mostly rock and maybe if it doesnt rain for the whole week or so,it turns out fairly damp-dry i guess..
but im still impressive that some helis can grow well in a warmer,drier environment.
Thanks again to tell me!
Harris
bombsboy wrote:So wait... Do you grow them outside or in a terrarium?Steve grows all of his plants in the greenhouse and moves them outside on nice days.
HarrisAz wrote:ut i wonder why they survive at their home where it is constanly wet and sometimes submersed in waterMy guess is that it's because the rainwater is extremely pure and pathogen-free: no bacteria nor fungi. And any fungi or bacteria that may start to colonize around the roots of the Heliamphora are very soon washed away again by clean and virtually sterile water.
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