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Originally Posted by edwardyeeks
Lowii first, followed by burbidgeae, followed by rajah, followed by veitchii. My maxima till now, still alive. But stuck in a suspended animation  |
Just my take on these species, at least in my experience:
maxima - By far the least cranky of those listed, this one and many of its hybrids can survive and pitcher in lowland conditions. Never had one go into shock before, so not sure about recovery.
veitchii - Even the H/L Veitchiis are not that temp cranky. Smaller or no pitchers if humidity is too low though. Can take a long time to establish, especially if humidity is too low, even the L/L ones.
rajah - This one is strangely heat and humidity resistant when young. With slight cooling, I've never had problems with this one. It even seems to recover from shock quite quickly.
burbidgeae - I've managed to get mine to adapt to an air-con room's crap humidity without any covers/shelter. It even pitchers once in a while. Why once in a while? Because its a very, very slow grower...but at least that means the pitchers last a long time too. I think it doesn't like changes in its growing conditions and takes it very badly, but can be slowly adapted.
lowii - I've had strange experiences with this one. Even from different sources, all the plants I've tried always grow straight to the brink of death...then recover, either via a basal or a lone surviving growing tip. The surviving plant then grows quite slowly, but seems to be able to adapt to air-con humidity. Is probably like burbidgeae in hating a change in growing conditions.
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Originally Posted by edwardyeeks
Fauzi once did a HL setup to keep some true ultra HL neps, such as hamata. He simply used styrofoam box with ice bottles.
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Just my opinion, but to me hamata isn't an ultra HL nep, the lower end of its alt range is only 1400m. Also, its not very demanding temp-wise. Now villosa, that's ultra HL. The distinction between HL and ultra HL may not be a good indication of things either, some ultra HL neps seem less temp cranky than certain HL species. What did happen to Fauzi's hamata tho? Did he manage to get it to produce uppers?