N fusca VS N boschiana

[kentosaurs]

Hi everyone

Well the thread is definitly not as "interesting" as the thread says it is but anyways I've been somehow just looking a lot at this 2 different nep lately.....Both are in a way "Quite" simillar and just wanted to know a couple of things about them. What i want to know is well which is generally easier to grow in lowland conditions since both are intermediates and which is more sensitive I might or maybe want to get either one of them....Also which produces bigger pitcher and which are fater growing and which is cheaper.If you can please post pictures of these 2 neps....And in your own opinion which do u think looks better and are eaier (what i stated above) etc etc etc...

Thanks to anyone who posted pics

Ken

[kltower]

Ken,

You have been to Fauzi's nursery. I am sure you have seen his boschianas. They are pitchering to a reasonably size and are flowering too. In other words they are hardened to the KL environment. And Fauzi is also probably your only source of boschiana. So get boschiana.

Forget about fusca. They are imported from BE as small plants and will take time to acclimatise. But if you have to get fusca, get the Sarawak variety, they are better looking and grow faster and pitcher more - for me anyway - than the Sabah variety.

Choong

[kentosaurs]

Hi Choong

Yeah i've seen it.....They grew very well for him there (everything does well for him) Okays advice taken if i wanna get it...Thanks.

I've heard that some people from another forum said that the sarawak variety even looks like a maxima or something but probally just some words thanks again.

Ken

[Aliamyz]

But it's very expensive boschianas.

[NepNut]

I'm quite surprise at how good N. boschiana grew in LL condition without night cooling. So far, I'm also getting a pretty good pitcher : leaf ratio, I think N. boschiana is very adaptable to various growing condition.

Can't comment on N. fusca since I don't have one, yet...

[kentosaurs]

Hi Ali

Yeah when i went to Fauzi's website its pricy though.......Well i guess thats what saving money is for ........

Hi cpnut

So i see you have a boschiana....How about the lighting??

Ken

[Simon Goh]

hi Ken,

Just to share some experience on both species with you.

My N.fuscs(sarawak variety) & N.boschiana is doing ok within 25+/-dc with high humidity but growing slower compared with N.nothiana. Which average produce 3-4 new leaf each month.

Hope its useful to you.

[kltower]

The other time when I was choosing some highland plants from Fauzi, he advised me to get the largest ones. The logic being highlanders tend to be slow/very slow grower.

So get the largest plant instead of plants with the largest or most pitchers!!!

Choong

[soonsuseong]

my experience is th 3 years here are no problems growing boschiana at lowland. i have a plant from about 3-4 years ago and it is still alive though stressed out at my in-law's place, from too much sun. leaves getting smaller and a couple of flower stalks (it's a female plant). since i took it back, the leaves are getting much larger and i pollinate it with some rafflesiana x veitchii pollen. wonder what comes out of it??

another boschiana i got recently, also grows well with good size pitchers.

however, i find fusca difficult in lowland conditions. i got a couple of small plants from BE and the leaves keep getting smaller. another plant from sabah also not doing to well. however, i have a plant from years ago, think it is fusca. when they are sold in most nurseries, which is growing well. maybe a sarawakian?? so, in a nutshell, boschianas are great but fuscas are temperamental.

[soonsuseong]

sorry, typo.

my experience is that are no problems growing boschiana at lowland.