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Post by ada on Aug 26, 2015 18:29:43 GMT
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Post by stevebooth on Sept 18, 2024 13:46:31 GMT
I haven't posted anything on this plant as yet, I have had it for years, but it grows slowly and it is at the back of the bench in the greenhouse, so I dont notice it doing anything till end of the year or when cleaning it up.   Cheers Steve |
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Post by corky on Sept 18, 2024 17:09:25 GMT
Looks good to me , reckon you've done better than most keeping it alive so long. The plant shows nice colour and slow is a far better thing to be than dead and I can say that from a personal experience
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Post by stevebooth on Sept 19, 2024 8:20:33 GMT
Hi Corky
It is one of the very few plants that I coddle a bit, it doesn't stay out in the greenhouse over winter, as every Cephalotus I had prior to this one, eventually demised in the greenhouse during winter through freezing or rot. So this one is kept in the porch, which being attached to the house is slightly warmer than the greenhouse and to date hasn't frozen (unless the delivery personnel leave the door open), and it is just enough to prevent it from freezing even at very low external temperatures, it also gets it out of the troughs occasionally filled with water that the other 'delicate' carnivorous plants sit in over winter.
Cheers
Steve
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Post by corky on Sept 21, 2024 12:03:03 GMT
Take it that's south facing porch? As it's where your d.modesta is
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Post by stevebooth on Sept 23, 2024 8:05:40 GMT
That's the one Corky, although there is a large tree lime tree that filters out a fair bit of the direct Southerly sun, but it reappears as it gets towards SSW, but it keeps things alive and growing, if not flourishing. Thats the reason the D. modesta looks 'green' when it grows, its sitting in there now whilst I anxiously await the appearance of shoots.
Cheers
Steve
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not here it isn't