Highland Nightime Temperature Drops...
 

Hi Forum,

Hi everyone i started this thread to look at your "creative" ways to produce nightime temparature drops for you highland neps.And also what highland plants do you have which thrive in your place??...
Well i'll start with mine no elctronics don't work as much as you guys with the gadjets and stuff.

-polystyrene box(those they use to sell fish in market)
-size L 49xW 37x H37
-couple of iced bottles
Plant
-only one N ventricosa

I just started this thing today so lets hope it'll do well for my N ventricosa.I know ventricosa's can survive and pitcher in lowland conditions but mine is coming out with smaller pitchers everytime it produces one.It has 2 basal shoots which is suprisingly constantly pitchering and pitcher and leaves getting bigger and bigger everytime.
Weird mother plant not doing well basal shoots doing just fine.

So has anyone tried what i do????And if you have does it actually work??:confused::confused:I'm not sure how long will the cool air last in there but i experiment on it.I just love:wub: trying stuff with my neps without using to much money.Well thats all:1thumbup::1thumbup::1thumbup:

Ken

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Wel i've tried it yesterday and its definitly usefull for highland neps temparature went down quite a lot.The ice bottles remain partly frozen even after10 hours!!I only opened the box a little yesterday.Today i'm gonna open half of the box to let some air in and not freeze the plants....

So how low temparature can N ventricosa take??? Since the ice bottles are still pretty frozen i would say its almost freezing inside there.Well 25 views isn't a lot but just posting it for fun :D

Ken

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The temperature at night at my house is cold naturally.(Maybe not enough cold)and it is humid(cause all my plants leaves have dew, all glass becomes foggy, you can feel moisture in the air. But during daytime the temperature can go up a lot. Just like how some CPs loves it.

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Hi Aaron,

I see so if it gets dew on your plants it should be cold enough only sometimes where my plants get dew only on very very cold nights.Most neps can handle high temps all they need to do is adapt to the new enviroment.

Ken

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I just use air-con, so I guess I'm not creative either. The plants simply sit next to my window in my room and they get air-con only at night when I turn it on at bedtime. That's it. Too lazy to shift to and fro. There's a bunch of stuff that's surviving, tho...thriving...hmm...the highest altitude species which gives me consistent mature pitchers is burbidgeae or eymae so far. I do have a hamata and villosa which are around 1-2 years old in my care and they do pitcher, but they're still tiny and the pitchers aren't mature pitchers, so they don't count I guess.

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Everynight(not sometimes) my whole house gets quite cold and always humid. Especially after a heavy rain it will get even colder.

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There has been a couple of times it rain very early in the morning and later at about 6.00 am the plants are ultra-dewy and even wet. I just love this feeling because I really really hate heat.

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Hi

I tried it now and it does work temparature does go down by quite a lot and probally lower than what i needed.The ice bottles still remain partly frozen after 10 hours.Oh yeah,after the next morning i found some moisture on the plants leaves quite a lot of them is that what u call dew 0.o??

Ken

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i hope you guys wont laugh at me but a few years ago, a lady in YG park once told me to put ICE CUBES on the subsrate in the pot!

i was like wth?

and yes, being a small, naive person back then, i tried it. my neps died! on was a sanguinea, the other a lovely rafflesiana!

this is no joke.. so dont take heed of anyone telling you to put ice cubes on the plant lol!

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Hi malowie,

Don't worry nobodies laughing...i myself have tried crazy ideas to provide low temparature drops for my neps.I've once tried what u did and had negatif affects on it

Ken

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I sometimes water my plants with cold water(when you pour it in a container, it will fog up)

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Hi Aaron,

Do you mean by putting it in a container like my little box of mine??? or in another container than put it in the polystyrene box???

Anyways nice avatar you got there so cute ,weird and evil looking in its own way.Is it like a pokemon or something???

Ken

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No, I mean the water I sometimes use to water my plants is cold enough to fog up any container. BTW that is a pokemon called Carnivine.

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Hi Aaron,

I see....thanks for clearing that up for me hhhahahah.Well all i know its a pokemon and i don't even have any interest in them anymore(no offense to all fans out there)..I used to go crazy about them hahahah just didn't find them intresting anymore.Anyways i only know victrebell from the list of pokemons haha..http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/m...s/johnc171.gif Sorry for going off topic...

Ken

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Hahaha. Cute Victreebel.

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I have heard of this, only it was for the Cobra Lily.

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To those that are interested in the system that Ludvig used which is a ref to cool water and a pump to pump cold water into a nice radiator (blue colored) to cool the terrarium, he has informed me that unfortunately he lost the URL but told me it was for Computers, so I checked and found these:

http://www.xoxide.com/swiftech-h2o-120-compact.html

http://www.xoxide.com/swiftech-h2o-a...a-extreme.html

Very similar to what he used, however for computers the radiator is actually the heat exchanger, so we use this in "reverse" of what they are designed, however it does not matter at all actually.

TTFN
Arvin

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Thanks Arvin for the links :D

Ken

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Well,that link show water cooling for pc.It wont help much.The temperature will only go down few celsius's.I have been using water cooling for pc since 1997.I have also used tec to cool down the temperature but also down few celsius's only.So no point in using such system.Better to use a compressor with temperature regulator if your pocket is deep.:tongue:

Just a taught.If some of you kept the nep cool at night but day time normal temperature;the differences of both the temperature will be big.Wont this stress the nep due to big differences in temperature?

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Hi Alienfx,

Oh.....I definitly have a thin and also thinning wallet/pocket.My way of lowering the temps now is quite inconvinient but since i only have 1 highland plant i can do that all the time every night.I'm not worried if the temp doesn't go down low enough,i'm afraid that my box might get to cold for my N ventricosa cause the bottles still partly frozen after the whole night till morning.So i open bout half so that it isn't that cold.

Ken

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Alienfx, when you use PC cooling you use in connection with water that goes through Fridge and gets chilled? Same as Ludvig? The idea that I liked is that with using PC cooling, you can have a small ref chilling water and through a tube, then pumped into PC cooling system then back to ref. The idea is that you can still use the ref for other purposes (don't use coolant chemicals though).

I however totally agree that a compressor type directly cooling a terrarium is the most efficient way to cool (but expensive in terms of cost).

I feel that if you fire up your cooling system when you get home for night time temp, you don't quickly cool the terrarium anyway, unless you are using a really strong system, in fact that is another possible advantage with a PC cooling system, it will slowly cool down the air, as opposed to say airconditioning.

TTFN
Arvin