greetings from North Carolina

[mikuláš]

Hi, just wanted to introduce myself here. I'm Nicholas, and I currently live in Raleigh, North Carolina. I grew a number of Nepenthes about a decade ago (!) when I was in high school (in Louisiana), and the past couple years I've been slowly, but inevitably, getting back into the hobby. I have a small collection that I keep in an outdoor-humidity chamber (not quite big enough to call a greenhouse; more like Michael Catalani's grow-chambers, I suppose), and I'm learning a lot more than I ever thought I would about temperature & humidity control devices! Though humidity is often high here, we have spells where it drops pretty low, and so this year I'm trying a humidity-controlled environment to see if that results in pitchers worth looking at .

I've thoroughly enjoyed reading everyone's posts so far - I appreciate the knowledge you more experienced growers share. How tempting it is now to move to Hawaii -- the plants of all you islanders seem to grow like weeds!

Good growing to all,
Nicholas

[bobh]

Nicholas:
I am happy to see another Tarheel here. I live in Chapel Hill. I have never detected a shortage of humidity here in the summer , so you should be fine.

[srduggins]

Welcome, looking forward to seeing what you grow.