- Sun May 08, 2022 5:28 pm
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Hi,
I bought a nepenthes bicalcarata which I received and repotted over a week ago. I nearly killed it in the first 24 hours by placing it on a sunny windowsill, not knowing it was extremely sensitive to sunlight. The leaves and original pitcher burned and turned black.
Since then I've made many adjustments: I put it inside a dome allowing for about 50 to 60 percent humidity, in a place where the main source of light is an LED grow light.
There's still some green remaining on the leaves suggesting the plant is not dead, but it hasn't tried to produce new leaves at this point.
Should I expect that it will recover? If so, how long does this species take to recover from stress?
I bought a nepenthes bicalcarata which I received and repotted over a week ago. I nearly killed it in the first 24 hours by placing it on a sunny windowsill, not knowing it was extremely sensitive to sunlight. The leaves and original pitcher burned and turned black.
Since then I've made many adjustments: I put it inside a dome allowing for about 50 to 60 percent humidity, in a place where the main source of light is an LED grow light.
There's still some green remaining on the leaves suggesting the plant is not dead, but it hasn't tried to produce new leaves at this point.
Should I expect that it will recover? If so, how long does this species take to recover from stress?
), and it doesn't look much better than yours, but at least it hasn't gotten worse! My goals with mine are to just let it do its thing while protecting it from fungal infection. Airflow is the best way to do this (though it might be difficult with a humidity dome), and I very occasionally also apply a fungicide, and use mosquito bits in my tray to prevent fungus gnats from worsening the plant's condition.
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