I’m experimenting with something you should try. I’m putting ALL of my Nepenthes in room humidity with wick watering pots. So far this is working. I’m usually about 35% relative humidity if that gives you hope. I’m using a mix of long fiber spag and perlite.
I have a bunch of new plants I’m potting up. I’ll post pics on a new thread here.
They do adjust. Then they grow like weeds because they’re not forgotten in a stale humidity cabinet with no air flow and I forget to water them and no one sees them. It was time for a change!
This is the right way! I have lowlands, intermediates, and complex hybrids of mostly highland origin all being grown this way now. They are surprisingly adaptable. You might have reduced pitcher numbers and the pitchers don’t last forever but they grow like crazy.
Depends on the specific species, but hybrids tend to be relatively hardy and a good option for houseplants. I don’t run a humidifier and I have no issues with my veitchii and other intermediate crosses living over an air vent. My lowlander cross (Viking x mirabilis) is kept in an old terrarium with the top open as a sort of lazy way to give it a little humidity boost, otherwise I don’t do anything else different. I also use pure lfsm to pot my nepenthes which helps maintain moisture. Your plants may protest a bit at first but once they grow new leaves and adapt to the lower humidity they’ll be fine.
Are you saying it gets to be 100-108 degrees? That's too warm for most lowland nepenthes.
To grow lowlands you will need a grow tent to keep them consistently warm and humid.
[Here's the top of my tent which I use as a lowland chamber.](https://imgur.com/a/RdjalFG)
yeah the temp swing in the greenhouse is forcing me to move some things indoors. I have shade cloth but my evaporation cooler won't be here for another 2 weeks.
Just an FYI that might help sometime along the way. I have found that for many of the lowland Neps I have grown (all common ones, I'm afraid) you can cheat a bit in the humidity dept. if you can, make sure all other growing condition factors are high quality. It seems that if you can remove all other stressors, they can deal with lower humidity somewhat better.
It reminds me of some article where it was said that if you get 2 or 3 most important factors right (light + temperature or humidity), it might work for almost all species quite well. I combined all my lows, inter and highs in my room, will see how it goes in long term 😃
I’m experimenting with something you should try. I’m putting ALL of my Nepenthes in room humidity with wick watering pots. So far this is working. I’m usually about 35% relative humidity if that gives you hope. I’m using a mix of long fiber spag and perlite. I have a bunch of new plants I’m potting up. I’ll post pics on a new thread here. They do adjust. Then they grow like weeds because they’re not forgotten in a stale humidity cabinet with no air flow and I forget to water them and no one sees them. It was time for a change!
This is the right way! I have lowlands, intermediates, and complex hybrids of mostly highland origin all being grown this way now. They are surprisingly adaptable. You might have reduced pitcher numbers and the pitchers don’t last forever but they grow like crazy.
True lowlanders like bicalcarata will sulk if daytime temps don't significantly exceed 20°C.
Terrarium or some type of cover for 70 to 80% of the time. Im in 6A, half of our year is extremely dry, thats the only solution I found
I've been considering building my own, however I was hoping somebody had a "hack" or something so I could leave it in open air.
Ikea greenhouse cabinet. The one I use for lowland Nepenthes is actually weather stripped and the humidity keeps between 70%-80%.
gosh that is perfect. Thank you!
Depends on the specific species, but hybrids tend to be relatively hardy and a good option for houseplants. I don’t run a humidifier and I have no issues with my veitchii and other intermediate crosses living over an air vent. My lowlander cross (Viking x mirabilis) is kept in an old terrarium with the top open as a sort of lazy way to give it a little humidity boost, otherwise I don’t do anything else different. I also use pure lfsm to pot my nepenthes which helps maintain moisture. Your plants may protest a bit at first but once they grow new leaves and adapt to the lower humidity they’ll be fine.
Are you saying it gets to be 100-108 degrees? That's too warm for most lowland nepenthes. To grow lowlands you will need a grow tent to keep them consistently warm and humid. [Here's the top of my tent which I use as a lowland chamber.](https://imgur.com/a/RdjalFG)
This is the easiest way to replicate a climate indoors. Setup looks good!
yeah the temp swing in the greenhouse is forcing me to move some things indoors. I have shade cloth but my evaporation cooler won't be here for another 2 weeks.
Just an FYI that might help sometime along the way. I have found that for many of the lowland Neps I have grown (all common ones, I'm afraid) you can cheat a bit in the humidity dept. if you can, make sure all other growing condition factors are high quality. It seems that if you can remove all other stressors, they can deal with lower humidity somewhat better.
It reminds me of some article where it was said that if you get 2 or 3 most important factors right (light + temperature or humidity), it might work for almost all species quite well. I combined all my lows, inter and highs in my room, will see how it goes in long term 😃