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I got a N. ventricosa a little more than a week ago. There was no damage during shipping and the plant looked healthy. This is my first N. and hope to soon have a collection so I am not the best at identifying problems. The plant is under Feit 74302 blue spectrum dual 2' LED grow light. Next to my drosera and pingicula which are doing great. In the details, it says the luminous flux is 1000. It emits 450Nm blue and 655Nm red. It is 6500K. The N. seems to have some yellowing and slowed growth. Im am not sure how long it takes for a leaf to open so I may just have to be patient. It came with one open pitcher and one inflated one. The inflated one seems to have gotten bigger. One of the leaves also appears to have a purple dot.

It is not in a tray of water. I water it every time the medium gets dry and mist it twice a day because of the dry climate.

With the yellowing leafs it might be because of the lighting, I have luck with my Nepenthes under a 75 watt (actual output) CFL bulb. I have had it for about a month and it has plenty of new leafs and pitchers.

Should I just put it next to the windowsill? The window would get all day sun but there is a big tree blocking some of It.

How many hours of direct light would it receive?


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I think the yellowing leaves is probably just natural leaf turn over. In my experience, when I get a new nep it will lose a leaf or two and it will also have the pitchers dry up. It's actually normal for a new plant to do this while it adjusts to its new environment.
Leaves will also yellow from too much water or too much light. It doesnt sound like a watering issue, but it could be the lighting, depending on how close it is to the lights.
My ventricosa does well sitting in a south facing window with a sheer curtain to filter the light when the sun is intense. I'm sorry I can't give you a better answer, the app I'm using won't let me see your photo's. I hope this helps.

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I am probably using too much light. It is about 7 inches from the top of the pot with about 14 hours of light. This is growing the drosera and pinguicula very nicely but I guess the nepenthes does not like it. I doubt it is shock as the new pitcher is enflating and the opened one has not shown any signes of dying.

How long does it take for a leaf to unfurl?

With my Nepenthes it takes about 1-2 weeks for leafs to fully unfurl.

No need to mist the leaves.

I've had this plant since mid-February. It had a couple of pitchers when I got it which eventually faded. At 1st I had it about 8" under a T5 fixture and it produced no new pitchers but I had one yellow leaf after another. I concluded either the T5s were too bright (4' 6 tubes) or it was too warm or both. I put a hanger on the pot and began hanging it in a southern exposure window all day. I also began spraying the tendril tips like twice a day based on something I saw in a You Tube video. That's when I started getting pitchers. In this case, my operating theory was if the tendril drys up you don't get a pitcher. It worked for me anyway, it has 4 pitchers on it and a couple more on the way.

mine has the same problem, but it also has brown mold under its leaves