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Originally Posted by Red Dragon
Hi, I'd like to ask you guys out there if you had tried growing highland neps in lowland condition. Can you share some of your experience? I personally tried growing N. sibuyanensis but to no avail.....it stop pitchering then RIP. N. spectabilis, and mira was also not successful. But had good experience with maxima, veitchii, truncata, ventricosa, and sanguinea.
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One thing you should note when you ask such a question is how high and low a person's "highland" and "lowland" are respectively, taking into account that there are the Neps considered as "intermediate" as well. Given what you've listed as your successes, your conditions are probably quite humid(humidity is very important) and at the same time around the middle of the lowland condition range. Note also that most of the Neps you've listed as successes are fairly forgiving. You should actually be able to grow sibuyanensis too, but sibuyanensis isn't exactly a fantastically easy Nep to begin with.
Most if not all the people who have succeeded in growing highland Neps in lowland conditions are either growing the lower altitude highlanders or their lowland conditions are more intermediate rather than lowland...or both. To be blunt, there is a massive difference between lowland conditions in Singapore than lowland conditions in Florida for example. Every 100m in altitude counts, as does the distance of the location from the equator and seasonal temperature change. I highly doubt anyone is going to succeed in growing something like N. villosa under Singapore's lowland conditions anytime soon, but N. rajah in say Florida, now that's possible, if not already done.
There are also two different factors to take note of: Temp and Temp drop. Most highlands can take fairly high temps if given a decent temp drop at night. If you can provide some form of cooling at night(doesn't even have to be that low, lower end of 20C may be good enough), you'll find that many highlanders will be a lot more forgiving.