Nepenthes is dying! All its pitchers shriveled up and died. We have moved its windows, put it above a humidifier but he’s dying and isn’t growing any more pitchers
Nepenthes is dying! All its pitchers shriveled up and died. We have moved its windows, put it above a humidifier but he’s dying and isn’t growing any more pitchers
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Forward-Tumbleweed22
I have no answers and have never seen this, but what an interesting plant!
Uschisewpie
They need really bright light and moist soil but are not bog plants like other carnivorous varieties. It doesn’t like standing water. To produce traps, they need humidity 60% or above. They like a 1:1:1 mixture of sphagnum, perlite, and fir bark for soil. Spray a seaweed based fertilizer in the traps every other week.
NazgulNr5
If you just got the plant, it’s normal that some or all pitchers dry up. Nepenthes hate change and something like relocation or repotting will almost certainly make it drop it’s picthers. It will grow new leaves with new pitchers if it gets enough light.
hatefactory
You should post this to r/savagegarden if you haven’t already. It’s a subreddit for carnivorous plants 🌱
prisbear
Pitchers don’t last forever. My nepenthes seems to have a cycle where it will lose all or most of its pitchers, stay pitcherless for a few months, then regrow a bunch. Your plant itself still looks pretty healthy, so I wouldn’t worry to much about losing pitchers.
Scary_Dot6604
Nepenthes can take a long time to acclimate to new environments. Mine usually takes 2 months after I put her out in warmer months.. and bring her in for the winter
They prefer to stay damp but not sitting in watee
You need to use distilled, rain or reverse osmosis water
You do not have to feed them, but you can use dried shrimp (fish food) in their pitchers
Do not add water to their pitchers
Pitchers die off in cycles.
DO NOT USE TAP WATER
DO NOT FERTILIZE
redeyereaderreaditt
I’m so frustrated with mine that I’m just about ready to give it away!
Zoe_nwobhm
You have to be patient with nepenthes. Mine went from zero pitchers to 15 in a few months after having none for almost a year. I think yours looks like it’s vining, sometimes they do that and put aside pitcher production. I’d cut and propagate the top of the vine and give the plant more indirect light (although this window looks quite bright?). A little bit of direct sun does not hurt ventrata either.
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I have no answers and have never seen this, but what an interesting plant!
They need really bright light and moist soil but are not bog plants like other carnivorous varieties. It doesn’t like standing water. To produce traps, they need humidity 60% or above. They like a 1:1:1 mixture of sphagnum, perlite, and fir bark for soil. Spray a seaweed based fertilizer in the traps every other week.
If you just got the plant, it’s normal that some or all pitchers dry up. Nepenthes hate change and something like relocation or repotting will almost certainly make it drop it’s picthers. It will grow new leaves with new pitchers if it gets enough light.
You should post this to r/savagegarden if you haven’t already. It’s a subreddit for carnivorous plants 🌱
Pitchers don’t last forever. My nepenthes seems to have a cycle where it will lose all or most of its pitchers, stay pitcherless for a few months, then regrow a bunch. Your plant itself still looks pretty healthy, so I wouldn’t worry to much about losing pitchers.
Nepenthes can take a long time to acclimate to new environments. Mine usually takes 2 months after I put her out in warmer months.. and bring her in for the winter
They prefer to stay damp but not sitting in watee
You need to use distilled, rain or reverse osmosis water
You do not have to feed them, but you can use dried shrimp (fish food) in their pitchers
Do not add water to their pitchers
Pitchers die off in cycles.
DO NOT USE TAP WATER
DO NOT FERTILIZE
I’m so frustrated with mine that I’m just about ready to give it away!
You have to be patient with nepenthes. Mine went from zero pitchers to 15 in a few months after having none for almost a year. I think yours looks like it’s vining, sometimes they do that and put aside pitcher production. I’d cut and propagate the top of the vine and give the plant more indirect light (although this window looks quite bright?). A little bit of direct sun does not hurt ventrata either.