Jeremiah's New Heliamphora Grow Chamber

ello all,

I just wanted to post a quick video of my newly setup Heliamphora grow chamber. A huge thank you goes to Butch for all the great advice to help me set this up similar to his.

Here is a great thread with advice from him.
http://www.terraforums.com/forums/sh...=123304&page=2

I have been growing a lot of these plant for 5 years or more in my greenhouses but they really have never done a whole lot for me. Last winter I decided I would build a new grow chamber to really try and succeed with the genus. As we all know Butch grow the best looking Heliamphora around so I asked his advice.

My chamber is not 100% identical but I'm hoping it will do the trick.

The chamber is 2' x 4'. I'm using a 4' T5 8 bulb fixture that is on for 14 1/2 hours a day. At 6:30am my humidifier (Sunpentown SU2000) turns on at 7am one fan (120mm 800RPM S-Flex 33.5 CFM @ 8.7dBA.) turns on. The lights and the other fan come on at 7:30am everything then run all day. The temps seem to max out at 74F, at 9pm one fan and the lights shut off. The other fan then runs until 9:30 and cools the chamber to about 60F. At 10pm the humidifier then turns off but will come on for 1/2 an hour at midnight and 3am. The humidity durning the night stays at about 85% to 90%. Now that the chamber is full it stays at 75% at the far end of the chamber durning the day.

The chamber is surrounded on three sides with foam board with a reflective aluminum side facing the chamber. The viewing side is drop plastic that I will velcro to seal. There is nothing covering the top other then the lighting which covers just about everything other then a 1" gap at the opposite end then the fans. For the racks I use three Chrome Whitmor Supreme Small 3-Tier Shelves with lighting egg crate on the growing shelf.

I have only had it up and running for a few days now so I will have to add new videos as things progress.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Jeremiah's
• New
• Heliamphora
• Grow
• Chamber
• Carnivorous
• Plants
• Plant
• terrarium
• Colorado
• Society
• indoor
• greenhouse
• under
• lights
• nursery
• Jeremiah
• Harris

[Zundelchen]

Top!

[acarnivorous]

Nice set-up! I grow some as well but not as many of the Heliamphora but much of of the other kinds of carnivorous plants. What is the humidity and temperature levels you keep your plants at? GREAT job thanks for posting......up date videos coming?

[vardesigns]

Fantastic setup Jeremiah. I keep telling Av that he needs to update his setup. Yours is the perfect evolution. :)

[destroyahdes]

That's very cool. I want to build a grow chamber like this for highland nepenthes. I was going to make mine like a wood cabinet but I'm still looking for options to make it cheaper, lighter and better if I can.

[qwackjp]

awesome