Great plants! I was just wondering how you were doing now that I'm sneaking into the forums a little more lately. Your plants all in one nice big rack with growlights or how have you got stuff growing?
Nice pitopangii - I've still gotta get me one of those! And what kind of conditions do you have that variegated Nep in? Mine stays just like... angry. It's been a runty palm-tree for years now :/ I tried more humid between other plants. Behind some plants or up front and center if it was amounts of light and that didn't seem to help either. Maybe it really wants warmer temps though because it was growing like a weed at Sam Estes' place in lowland Hawai'i.
Thanks Zu, it's been a while but the plants are still growing lol. Highland setup is pretty low tech, it's a shelving rack with a vinyl sheet on 3 of the four sides, lit by a southern window plus four T8s on a timer. Humidity is ambient + a few sprays of water now and again, temperature is handled just by opening and closing the window when needed. I've grown that variegated
N. graciliflora for years in a lowland tank but I grow it with the highlanders now and there's no remarkable differences in growth.
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N. pitopangii is probably one of my favorites, anecdotally it's much less picky than
N. glabrata, which rarely pitchers for me.
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thanks zcons!