Does such an awesome plant exist?

Lamour

Lamour

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I can't find any basement plants :(
My room where my veiled stays is in the basement so I have no windows. I have tried pothos and scheffelera(sp) but both started to die and not do so well.

What I want is a low light plant with sturdy branches or leaves for climbing on that will grow upwards. Temperature and watering I'm not as worried about, the main problem is sun requirement!
I do have a growth light so it can get some artificial light but no sun rays.

So any ideas :confused:
I have looked through so many plants but cannot find anything that will grow upwards and sturdy withough high sun. Could adding another grow light by the bottom of the cage help? Or if no such amazing plant exists what plants would be good that can stay in a small enough pot to carry up and down stairs to sit outside?
 
tuff question's look through the safe list plant right in here on the forum or go to FL Chameleon's and they also have a safe plant list you should find everything there, and i would recomend vines they are small and e z enouff to carry up and down
 
Thanks, i'll have to look through the list again. I've been through a majority of it and they're mostly high light demanding. Any good basement plants i've seen are possibly toxic, even though my veiled doesn't eat plants I don't think I should take the chance of putting something toxic in.
 
pothos is pretty hard to kill. I have mine hanging so it is pretty close to the lights, this could help if you could get one hung. Also with it hanging the vines give plenty of climbing area. What kind of UV B are you using?
Also when you clean your chams cage or take them out, bring the plants with you and place them in the shade.
 
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Pothos should do just fine with only the lights in the cage. Or you could get one or two 6500K plant lights (which do wonders for plants and brighten up the cage.)
 
I'm using a 6500k CFL daylight bulb for the plant. Then, I believe, a 75w basking bulb and a 10.0 uvb. The light mostly only hits the top of the plant which is why i'm wondering if I should add another plant light that faces the bottom of plant, around the roots and stems.

The first pothos I had started getting a lot of yellow leaves and losing them.
 
Pothos is great. Just give it plant food. I have one in my basement with no water or light and it is still alive it just stopped growing..
 
That should be plenty of light. Idk if you should put a uvb on the bottom side of your cage, I am guessing you're trying to say? Your cham should be able to get away from the UV B so Ive read. My schflerra on the bottom the cage is loosing all the stems on the bottom because it's not getting a lot of light, but the top is green as can be and growing well. Did you have good draining in your pothos? I am assuming this would be the reason for yellow dying leaves or not adequate nutrition.
 
Not inside the cage, just next to the side... like on a small stand aimed into the cage. A scheflerra is what I have now and it keeps dropping a bunch of leaves that keep dying. They have both had decent draining I think, they were re potted with organic soil so it may be a bit dense for the water to get through. Neither have had plant food, is there something safe to use with chams?
 
Lamour said:
Not inside the cage, just next to the side... like on a small stand aimed into the cage. A scheflerra is what I have now and it keeps dropping a bunch of leaves that keep dying. They have both had decent draining I think, they were re potted with organic soil so it may be a bit dense for the water to get through. Neither have had plant food, is there something safe to use with chams?
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That may be fine but i am not too sure. I put rocks in my pots before adding soil and the plants. You can also mix sand with your soil to help draining. any plant food would be fine. I use feeder poop though.
 
justjumpit621 said:
I just got a money tree, it is large and it only requires low light and little watering.
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I have looked at the money tree/ lucky bamboo as well as orchids and peace lilys. All posts and research I have found say they're toxic though :(

RealIzeRecognIze said:
That may be fine but i am not too sure. I put rocks in my pots before adding soil and the plants. You can also mix sand with your soil to help draining. any plant food would be fine. I use feeder poop though.
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Cool, I'll definitely try those for better draining. Do you use pebbles or big river rocks, or does it not matter? My cham likes to poop all over the schefflera that's in there so I'm always cleaning stuff off of it :p
 
Same Problem Here.

Lamour said:
I have looked at the money tree/ lucky bamboo as well as orchids and peace lilys. All posts and research I have found say they're toxic though :(



Cool, I'll definitely try those for better draining. Do you use pebbles or big river rocks, or does it not matter? My cham likes to poop all over the schefflera that's in there so I'm always cleaning stuff off of it :p
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Lol, that's funny, so does my veiled! Nearly killed the schefflera. I had to take it out and get a second one. Marble sized rocks is what I use. About 1-2" in the bottom. I've had trouble with drainage so changed to a pot with a pour lip on the drainage tray. Best idea is to get two and rotate them once a month while the other one stays in the shade or under a grow light outside the cage. Gonna try it again with that pot and a cheapo grow light from Wal-mart. Pothos has been the best and spider (or airplane) plant both seem to hold up very well.
 
Aiming a light in from the side is very unnatural for the animal to have all day long.
 
Fake plant. :)

you can buy fake trees if your condidtions keep killing all your real ones. Be warned- dont allow plant eating chams to eat small parts of a fake tree.
 
maxttu said:
You might be the only person in the history of history to kill a pothos! :eek: ;)
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Haha it wasn't completely dead :rolleyes:
It wasn't growing real well though and just kept getting lots of yellow, dead leaves. Plus it smelled like pee or something :confused:
I ended up giving it to my boyfriends mom to see if she could keep it alive outside.

I was thinking a light on the side since if its only at the bottom the veiled wouldn't be looking at it a lot, but he may also just try and use it as a sun so maybe not a good idea :p

This is a list of plants I've looked up that are supposedly good in basements and veiled "safe". Any input on if they are safe and esy to grow would be much appreciated :D

Coleus, Grape ivy, Japanese aralia, Prayer plant, African violets, Begonia, Calathea, Chinese evergreen, and Cast iron plant. As well as Jade plant, Schefflera plant, and Pothos plant (not sure if I want to try these last two again though and I heard Jade has fragile leaves)
 
I was just teasing ya. ;) Someone else posted about their pothos smelling like pee awhile back. Was it you?? Try the pothos or schefflera again...
 
Probably yeah. I think it was old water not draining correctly or the soil, but never figured it out. Everytime I go to lowes they are out of any decent schefflera now :mad:
 
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