Growing Outdoors in New Mexico

[Jimmy]

Hello,
Here are my efforts at outdoors CP growing in a desert region.
My minibog shows excellent progress.
From late spring or early summer:



Now:



Now, for the new stuff:
An outdoors growrack.

N. ventricosa - it's showing some sunburn in certain areas.




Sarracenia seedlings, plastic bag removed:

N. sanguinea....It got eaten by a colorful grasshopper!

N. Lady Pauline - look at the leftmost leaf. It got eaten by the rainbow grasshopper! I was able to rescue it from the hungry insect just in time.

D. capensis and D. binata

U. gibba

Cacti seedlings

Jimmy

[kentosaurs]

Hi Jimmy

Very nice plants and quite a lot of variety at least more than mine.Do you mind stating your growing conditions???I checked a little about your weather there and it seems that it gets really cold at night..

Ken

[Jimmy]

Ah, my growing conditions. Honestly, they change from day to day and by the hour. Right now, days are usually in the low 80s, spiking into the low 90s sometimes, while nights are between lows in the low 50s to the high 60s. Humidity is always naturally below 50%, usually around 35%, and breezes/gusts are common. Right now, I have no problems with my plants growing in these conditions, unless they are 'soft', low-light terrarium grown or TC plants.

But these conditions are only during autumn and spring. Winter and summer are completely different extremes.

The growrack was set up cautiosly with the onset of the cooler temps of autumn. I dare not set it up in the summer! Lol

[Marigoldsfail21]

Impressive plants, Jimmy! Living in a desert hasn't hindered your ability to grow Cps at all it looks like.

[kentosaurs]

Hi Jimmy

Wow suprisingly the weathers are quite suitable for highland neps outside except for the low humidity.Like Marigold said doesn't affect your ability to grow Cp's at all

Ken

[Jimmy]

Thank you! I don't quite think it's my green thumb - I think it's just that CPs are hardier than they are given credit for. I'm really expanding my collection now, and moving on to some harder Neps....

[plantlover]

Wow!! Gorgeous plants!!

[Jimmy]

Thank you! Hopefully they are just the beginning of a great display of CPs! Now is the prime time to get highland Neps, because the temps permit shipping and the plants will have some time to harden off and prepare for the hot summer of next year.

[harlem2347]

Wow..U really get many species of cps....
I more like N. ventricosa...it has beautiful and cute pitcher...I attract by their lovely colour of pitchers...look live red-orange...so lovely!!

[arvin555]

Great plants!

May I know the diameter of your bog pot just so I can get an idea of the scale? I'm hoping to make a similar one (minibog) one of these days.

Next time you catch a grasshoppper, give it to a nep or if small enough to a VFT. My brother has been catching cute little grasshoppers in our garden and feeding them to his VFTs, I caught one and it ended up a pet for my kids for a few days then released.

TTFN
Arvin