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Many many more to come. This is just a few I played around with tonight for pictures. This is my first actual post here in about 11years.

Make that first post in about 11 years.

Assuming they are under red/blue lights based on the photos. Beautiful plants. Appreciate you sharing the photos. Can you describe your chamber setup? or is that in an old post ?

Fine plants, thanks for posting! I'm also keen to read more about your setup if you're willing to share details.

Setup is pretty basic. I use a 5x5x8 marshydro grow tent, a reptile hydrofogger and currently for the primary lighting I use 4 yescom equivalent full spectrum led. Conditions are a constant 99% humidity with 77°f day at 14 hours with a 10° drop at lights off. I have actually just recently started moving to this type setup over the last couple years and see amazing results.

On a side note, back when I was very active on here, I mostly just messed with flytraps and drosera. Jeremiah is who started my love for nepenthes when he traded his Nepenthes Leesii main plant for a hybrid sundew both me and Eric Morrow had corroborated on.

Dug this one out of it's spot for a repot and pictures. It is Nepenthes Song of Melancholy x (spectabilis x talangensis) from Drew at Carnivero.

chtripp wrote:… 77°f day at 14 hours with a 10° drop at lights off.

How do you drop the temp? How do you keep it at 77 during the day ?

I use a small heater with a thermostat probe on top of the chamber to raise the temp in conjunction with the bit of heat from the lighting, when lights go out and heat goes off I get an exact drop. If not inside my home, I'd say it might be more difficult to regulate this way.

I’m asking about cooling it. For me, the moment the lights go on, the grow tent has the tendency to reach ten degrees higher than in the house.
I see a drop at night, but not highland.

Cooling is easy for me, I keep my house at a balmy 65 to 67 at all times. Not for the plants but for my health. The only times I've had issues with overheating the chambers is when my hvac was needing service during our hottest days and on those days I found that if you set a couple 2 liter frozen bottles of water in there every 5 or 6 hours you achieve the drop fairly easy.

Try the ice in your chamber to see how your plants respond.