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Highland on lowland conditions?

MrFus

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Is there some one that have a highland plant growing on lowland conditions?

How is the plant doing?

I ask this just for curiosity, I have read a lot of the average temperatures that the Lowland showld have and the percent of humidity they need to grow, how the highland will respond to heat index? its posible to aclimate the plant to grow fine or the plant will be on pain and grow weak and sad?
 
I would suppose that even easy species wouldn't really be too happy about prolonged life in those conditions. ultra highland...I am pretty sure u can forget about them...they need their constant conditions. Easy highlanders can take intermediate...but I am not sure of pure lowlander conditions.
 
I grow highlanders in lowland conditions. They survive and look decent until winter, and then they take off. Some species (tobaica, etc) and some hybrids (alata giant x spectabilis, etc) actually do really well year round. It just depends on the plant and how high the humdity is. Lots of growers in Hawaii grow highlanders outside in LL conditions, but they have about 90% humidity to buffer the temperatures.

I've kept some highlanders at about 85° for upwards of six months on two separate occasions in the last two years, Hawaiian growers have done the same for longer, so unless you have a weak clone or you don't water enough/your humidity isn't high enough/etc, you don't need to worry about them "not surviving in the long term".
 
Supposedly a few highlanders can tolerate some aspects of lowland conditions; N. alata is reportedly able to grow well with little nighttime drop in temperatures.
~Joe
 
but would it be growing at the same vigor and level as it would in its true highland conditions? :0o:
 
All of mine grow fine with more or less the same speed. Some are actually a little faster. As to vigor, they look at least decent and never succumb to any infections or pests or anything. I had what i think was a caterpillar practically destory an argentii, and its making a recovery.
 
N.alata, like N.khasiana, grow well in lowland conditions. They don't really count as highlanders to me.
 
If you consider ventrata as a highlander, then yes. The one in the tank is by far the best of the ventratas with several pitchers. It is battling for space with a rafflesiana and bicalcarata
 
N. ventrata will grow much faster in lowland conditions than in highland.
 
  • #10
I have N. sanguinea growing in 365days of temperature in the 80s. During the hot months when the temperature for day and night reaches the 90s, it does stop growing. Once the weather cools down a 3-4 degrees, it would resume growth after a month.

N. fusca and N. copelandii too stops growing during the hot months. N. sibuyanensis dies in my conditions. N. ventricosa is easy and pitchers readily.

Highland hybrids do much better like N. sibuyanensis x ventricosa. Other hybrids with a lowland parent helps a lot e.g. truncata x izumeae.

But I doubt your conditions are as hot as mine, with as little day-night fluctuations. :blush:
 
  • #11
It takes quite a bit of neglect to kill something like a ventrata of a Jusith Finn!
 
  • #12
My N.ventrata absolutely HATES lowland conditions. It didnt make a single pitcher (apart from a deformed small one) during the heat of summer. Now its cooler and tis coming back. ;)

N. ventrata will grow much faster in lowland conditions than in highland.
 
  • #13
Mnn~ on such conditions, someone fine and someone die!:-(
on my conditions, in summer.

Temperature: day 30-36C night 28-32C
Humidity: day 55-75% night 70-85%

someone like N.ventricosa N.khasiana are very happy. grow very fast.
but my poor N.mikei N.talangensis stop growing. the leaves start turn black.
Finally he will say goodbye with you.:down:

N.mikei
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/97999575@N00/1437779487/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1039/1437779487_ca00649585_o.jpg" width="610" height="500" alt="N.mikei_turn black" /></a>

N.copelandii
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/97999575@N00/1437779625/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1145/1437779625_af84ba37d9_o.jpg" width="610" height="500" alt="N.copelandii_turn black" /></a>

so, if you don't have any cooling system.
Please do not growing highland on lowland conditions.:nono:
 
  • #14
Cindy,

I can't grow ventricosa at all. I had one once that grew (even flowered), but since then they all die. Sanguinea survives, but does not like it too much.
 
  • #15
Theres someone in Hawaii that has multiple copelandiis growing out in the sun. I think they are all seed-grown Apo forms, so perhaps there is a difference between the different forms.
 
  • #16
My N. ventrata is a cutting from a plant grown outdoors in south Florida. It absolutely loves heat and humidity and seems to thrive.
I also have a N. sanguinea orange growing in lowland conditions and is growing and pitchering very well.
Both these plants have been growing in lowland conditions from the start.
 
  • #17
Manny, my conditions are like Duckking's summer nearly year round except for the October-January period with a lot more rain and overcast skies. Perhaps my N. ventricosa from BE are still young plants and they more less fussy about the heat. I'll just have to see how they do for me when they mature.

Any other highland and they look exactly like Duckking's N. mikei after a while. N. muluenesis x lowii is still alive after 9 months but for three quarters of the time, it is just leaves without any pitchers.
 
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