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Hello! I opened this topic because i bought in april 2 little carnivorous plants: nepenthes hookeriana and nepenthes bloody mary. Now i have a problem with them: they have developed some orange spots on the leaves and their new pitchers are smaller. Bloody mary now has only 2 big pitchers( it came with 4). I think that the orange spots are sunburns even though the sun is filtered through a ionized window glass. Another thing is that at the bloody mary plant the new leaves grow with a strange pattern( one side is almost missing). I will add some pictures where you can clearely see. Now my question is: why is this thing happening? Too much sun? The air humidity was around 30% last week, but this week is 50%(rainy days). It was a time when the air humidity was below 20%(when i used an air humidifier). I water the plants every day and spray their leaves with water. So what condition is bad(sun, humidity,temperature)? The temperature is between 24-30 degrees Celsius.
Thank you for your attention!

What are they potted in? To me it looks like pure peat moss which is not good for them. Does it have any added fertilizers? Something is definitely wrong with both of them, but the smaller one is going into "Emergency Mode" as I call it, and producing a ton of basals. I'd recommend potting them in either pure lfsm or a 50-50 mix of lfsm and perlite.

Try repotting them in sphagnum moss and only use RO, distilled or rainwater

Thanks for replies. I use only distiled water. The soil is that they came with. The problem is i have only that type of soil(i bought 1 kilo of that soil with plants). At my previous carnivorous plant(venus flytrap) i used a black and sandy soil which was retaining the water and caused rizom putrefaction. This soil is better and it says that it is only for carnivorous plants.
Could be another reason?

Later edit:i didnt use fertilizers i dont know if the shop did.

Looking at the soil composition i found something interesting:it contains Sphagnum(100%), different granulation and fertilizers "100 g PG-Mix 12-14-24 (N+P+K and trace elements) 100 g Micromax". So the soil must be changed? I am thinking: when the plants arrived they were looking very good even if the soil was the same;at the shop they all grow in this soil and look ok. Why my plants dont feel good? I thought that the sun is responsible for that thing, or the air humidity,but is the soil.
I added photos with plants when i bought them.

Change it as soon as you can. You can buy some sphagnum moss here:flytrapcare.com/store/growing-media-and ... agnum-moss

Unfortunately i couldn't find any type of soil for carnivorous plants in my country. I found only the components of the soil(not the mixture). Can you tell me how can i mix these components in order to obtain a good soil for my nepenthes? I found dry sphagnum moss and peat moss. What else should I buy?

The two easiest mixes I know of that are good for Nepenthes are pure long-fibered sphagnum moss(lfsm) and a 50-50 mix of lfsm and perlite. Make sure they don't have any added minerals.

i use 50/50 LFSM and Perlite, simple and my plants are happy.



the ants are happy also =^)

Whoa! Look at all of those ants!!

You have a horde of ants on your plant!

Does it have some sanguinea in it