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Nepenthes Masaolensis Cultivation

Nepenthes masaolensis is a lowland plant that seems to require constant warm temps and high humidity in cultivation.

 

Cultivating Ease - Medium for myself, but most say its quite difficult.

Type - Lowlander

Temperature - Keeping it warm at all times is mandatory. Although it can tolerate intermediate temperatures, it should be kept between 75 and 95 degrees farenheit for pitcher development.

Humidity - Should be very high at all times. Does not grow as well and the pitchers do not form in low humidity environments. Humidity should be above 85% at all times for optimum growth.

Light - I grow the plant under lights, and in indirect sunlight. I'm not sure of its actual natural lighting requirements, as little is known about this plant in its natural surroundings.

Moisture - Keep the plant wet. Do not let the soil dry out. This plant needs a much wetter soil than most Nepenthes. This plant will quickly die if the soil becaomes dry.

Soil - Long Fiber Sphagnum

Size - Don't know this yet, and there is little I have found with other people cultivating this plant as to how large it becomes.

Details: The key to this plant is keeping it warm, wet,  with very high humidity. Most growers state this is a very difficult plant. My friend Carl Taylor says that my plants were the only ones that he had seen pitcher in cultivation, so I must be on the right track . Whether or not I have the ideal setup for them is yet to be seen, but I would suggest starting with what I have said here and building on it.

Propagation -  I have not yet propagated this plant.

Forms - I only know of the typical form.