My N. Mirabilis var. echinostoma has a salty peristome!

[Durban]

Originally Posted by David

Can you share the conditions where your plant grows? To me this is a very fussy plant. Great that your plant is doing so well.

These are my growing conditions:

All my lowland Nepenthes are in a hermetically sealed greenhouse outside under a metal awning. People often ask why i don`t grow them in the open. Well, while our weather is very sunny and warm, the humidity can drop really low for months on end, so keeping the plants in a greenhouse solves this. I keep the greenhouse out the sun or else it would cook, also it protects it from our violent storms in Summer, when we often get golf ball-size hail and damaging winds.

Light: The plants get indirect daylight (no sun), they also get 800W of Metal Halide and HO fluorescent lighting 14 hours a day.

Temps: 30c-32c in the day, 26c-28c at night, often the temps can reach 38c in the day in Summer.

Humidity: 70%-90%

Media: 2/4 Canadian Sphagnum Peat, 1/4 Perlite (dead), 1/4 Medium Pine Bark

Watering: Once weekly with RO water, 0 PPM

I have had the plant for almost a year and a half, but only recently has it`s nectar tasted salty. I`ve noticed that it never has more than three living pitchers on it at any one time, and that the lids wither long before the pitchers die, often a month before this. Also, it is doing something else unbelievable, see my other thread for the crazy details!

Hope this all helps.