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Hello all-

Purchased a pitcher plant. A Nep. Possibly "Ventrata". Had pitchers on it. Died last winter. I expected that especially with early daylight savings time in NY. But no (new) pitchers next spring. It produced pitcher babies about the size of ladybugs, then they just wither and die.

Care:
Southern Kitchen Window
Distilled Water Only
Kept evenly moist, never let go completely dry.
Cut back some of the leaves that have already produced pitchers that have died, to encourage growth
Cut away dead or dying pitchers at tip of leaves.



Question:
Why won't it re-pitcher?
Is this a highland or lowland variety? (Assuming this is a Ventrata).
Could the problem be that I need a highland variety for my geographic conditions; something a little more hardy to NY conditions?

Thanks!

Well I'm sorry for your problems but on my ventrata only one pitcher has shriveled up since I got it and that was around the time we had little or no sunlight through that window now it's outside in full sunlight and is producing medium sized pitchers so my advice is more sunlight

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From what I've found the main reason that causes pitchering problems in Neps is not enough light or not enough humidity. I have a bunch of Neps in a west window (4 hours of direct sun light max) and all of them are pitchering very well, but I also mist them at least twice per day to help with the humidity.

Humidity isn't a problem for me, living in England we have a low humidity all the time but mine don't care much

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markus13 wrote:From what I've found the main reason that causes pitchering problems in Neps is not enough light or not enough humidity. I have a bunch of Neps in a west window (4 hours of direct sun light max) and all of them are pitchering very well, but I also mist them at least twice per day to help with the humidity.

Do yo mist them in am/pm?
Do you mist them in winter? (I'm thinking its cold in NY, but because of that we turn our heat on this can take away humidity and necessitate continued misting, "if not more" in the winter)?

Thanks for your reply -;)

Thanks!

I don't think misting will be needed in winter

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Thanks