- Mon Jun 28, 2021 2:02 pm
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So as this species continues to remain undescribed, I'd like to share a few things I've learned about growing this mysterious nep.
Most of the online vendors note that it is a highland to intermediate plant that grows vigorously in highland conditions, but I've found that, after growing it outdoors for almost three years, it grows pretty well under lowland conditions too (central florida). Temperatures here during the summer have been in the upper eighties and nineties consistently, with night temps going no lower than the low seventies. Despite this, the plant has not fussed about this at all. The only thing I could say though is that it probably isn't growing as quickly as it could be under highland conditions, but it is in no way a sluggish grower. It grows with my lowland neps and dies fine.
It tolerates low humidity well too! When I had it growing indoors in my room under T5 lighting, the humidity rarely increased above 47%, yet it still grew and pitchered well.
The pitchers were very papery and soft when the plant was smaller, but they have since hardened up a bit now that it is larger.
Mine isn't too large yet though, and it has just started to put out pitchers with those beautiful bronze/copper colors that I always see on Google images.
I can't wait to see what else is discovered of this plant as the years go by, and hopefully it gets officially described sometime soon, though I think it'll be a few good years before then.
If any of you good folks have this plant, please share your experiences with it in the comments here! Also, we still haven't given it a name, although there were a few good ones suggested that really sounded good! If you have any good/fitting ones, please post your suggestion here!
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Most of the online vendors note that it is a highland to intermediate plant that grows vigorously in highland conditions, but I've found that, after growing it outdoors for almost three years, it grows pretty well under lowland conditions too (central florida). Temperatures here during the summer have been in the upper eighties and nineties consistently, with night temps going no lower than the low seventies. Despite this, the plant has not fussed about this at all. The only thing I could say though is that it probably isn't growing as quickly as it could be under highland conditions, but it is in no way a sluggish grower. It grows with my lowland neps and dies fine.
It tolerates low humidity well too! When I had it growing indoors in my room under T5 lighting, the humidity rarely increased above 47%, yet it still grew and pitchered well.
The pitchers were very papery and soft when the plant was smaller, but they have since hardened up a bit now that it is larger.
Mine isn't too large yet though, and it has just started to put out pitchers with those beautiful bronze/copper colors that I always see on Google images.
I can't wait to see what else is discovered of this plant as the years go by, and hopefully it gets officially described sometime soon, though I think it'll be a few good years before then.
If any of you good folks have this plant, please share your experiences with it in the comments here! Also, we still haven't given it a name, although there were a few good ones suggested that really sounded good! If you have any good/fitting ones, please post your suggestion here!
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