Building Highland Terrarium in Near Future

[RamPuppy]

In all honesty Stefano, all my experience is with lowlanders and intermediates, and lowlander /highlander hybrids that can take the heat of my terrarium, I just have not had the time to devote towards doing a highlands setup.

But I can tell you this, Phil and Jeff sell Sanguinea last time I checked, and it is an inexpensive plant, and relatively large if I remembe,r it's not on the site right now, so I don't know if they have it, perhaps they sold out, if so, tony is a great bet as well. Point is, it's a pretty plant, and while your adjusting your conditions, it's not to terribly bad if you lose the plant. your not out 60 for the rajah.

 

[nepenthes gracilis]

Martin, sorry to burst your bubble but he has his in COMPLETE different conditions as well as a different part of the world. i read on his site that he let's the humidity go down to 20% sometimes. That is why his Rajah probably wasn't doing the greatest anyway! Quote from a Nepenthes website........." Grow the plants how they are in the wild" Or try to get as close to those conditions as possible. Ram, I am GLAD I grow a rare and beatiful palnt. You think i wouldn't be? And according to my friend I bought the Rajah from said it is within 1 year of being mature meaning near capability of flowering. Ohh, crap I mistunderstodd him. I just went back to the letter now and REREAD it. Jesum, sorry all. It is within 1 year of being mature or what Martin said Mature characteristics. Jeez, I need to calm down and read slowly. Heh. sorry for the confusion.

 

[Pyro]

NepG,

Just because a plant is mature enough to flower does not mean that it has the same characteristics of a chronologicaly older plant. For example, my N. ventricosa is mature (I know because it flowered) but it still has a ways to go before it'll be producing the nice 8" bulbous pitchers it is known for. It is all about time with Neps.