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Just finished moving my grow rack inside.

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Daytime Temps - 80-88
Daytime RH - 65-85

Nighttime temps - 73-82
Nighttime RH - 75-95

Working on try to lower the nighttime temperatures a bit if possible. Hoping this will help when it arrives http://sunpentown.com/suulhu.html

List of plants:

N. bicalcarata red (Lowland)
N. Veithchi pink (Lowland)
N. ventricosa (I believe - no label- store bought from Lowes) (Intermediate)
N. sanguinea (I believe - again store bought from Lowes) (Intermediate?)
N. orange sanguinea (Intermediate?)
N. burkei (Highland)
N. talangensis x veitchii (Highland)
N. sibuyanensis x hamata (Highland)
 
Careful about the N. bicalcarata in there. They prefer high humidity and high temperatures.
 
if you want to grow N. Bicalc for more than just a year you may want a couple months with less lowlanderish temps haha its the only way to keep it growing within a manageable rate...

otherwise within a year it'll overtake your whole house.
 
N. bical can definitely be grown successfully in there. Here's mine today before I packed it up for shipping.

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really nice vraev. Yeah, I'm no expert, but I'm pretty sure my temperatures are good for bical. growing. I'm more worried about stunting the growth of my highlanders. I'm trying to figure out if I should split the 4 tiers into a highland/lowland 2-chamber setup....
 
That give me an idea.

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Maybe one day I can devote one tier to Neps, instead of sharing with the Petios and Utrics.

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Hey those racks look pretty handy. where can I find a setup like that? whats all the equipment you use in them?
 
Time to fill that grow rack up!
 
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dajimmer - its a 4-tier mini-greenhouse . Google it, runs anywhere from 40-60 plus shipping. Cheap but gets the job done. Similar racks can be found at home depot or lowes. I'm using a 100 watt submersible aquarium heater and a bin full of disitilled water. Small house fan at bottom for air circulation. All components are on timers for controlled lighting, humidity and air circulation

nightsky - I think I plan on, in the near future, separating the four racks. Using the top two for lowland, and bottom two for highlands. I think the coolness of the floor at night with lights off will provide, hopefully, nice highland conditions. New light system and cool mist humidifier should do it fine. This way I can start filling it up :banana2:
 
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nice. thanks. lots to think about for the future.
 
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Little lighting adjustment :

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125w 6400k - 8,500 lumen bulb

May end up using the fixture I replaced this with to run a highland condition setup at the bottom tier if possible.... The plants seemed to be enjoying the simple standard cfl bulbs, the talangensis x veitchii just about put out a pitcher, and growth of the others were coming along nicely...
 
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Hi Greg NY

I have the exact same greenhouse down here in NZ. I have successfully grown Nepenthes in it for the last couple of years (thrived not survived). I have used a very similar setup, with 600mm shop lights suspended from each shelf. As you suggested, I grew lowland/intermediates at the top and highlanders at the bottom (temps were different, but only marginally). I used car windscreen sun covers on 3 sides to reflect light and add some insulation for winter to keep temperatures up. I did not heat the greenhouse, or the garage they were in, the lights provided adeqaute warmth. Needless to say, the temperatures of the room will control what temperatures you achieve without specific heating/cooling.

My two main comments would be as follows:

I also used a small fan for air circulation, which I think is important to prevent disease/problems.

Be carfeul on the watering. If you have been growing your plants on a windowsill say, they will require much less water inside the greenhouse compared to the windowsill. It is not a problem, you just need to be attentive.

I see it is placed next to a window. Can the plants receive direct sunlight? Be careful if so, like any terrarium, it can heat up very, very quickly!

I hope it is successful for you. I am actually in the process of selling off my Nepenthes, it was too tempting to use it as another grow area for Mexican Pinguicula!
 
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