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Hi,

My nepenthes bicalcarata, nearly destroyed by sunburn, is now growing a new leaf! However, the end of the leaf where the pitcher develops looks black and the pitcher part looks like a white tuft. Is this normal or did the leaf burn up from my artificial lighting?

Congrats on the new growth! The new bud deformity is normal under the circumstances the plant is under. The next few pitcher buds might turn out like that, but I'd say the plants energy is better spent on recovering right now rather than creating pitchers anyway.
In my experience, bicalcarata definitely doesn't like to be disturbed or stressed. Mine also went through a crispy experience during mid winter, as did all my other neps, and the bical was by far the slowest to recover, only now picking up again on growth while the rest of my plants done did been growing for the last several months.

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Do you keep this plant indoors? If so, how do you meet its needs for temperature and humidity?

Yay!!! Congratulations

felinefancier87 wrote:Do you keep this plant indoors? If so, how do you meet its needs for temperature and humidity?

I used to, but it outgrew it's little makeshift terrarium, so now it grows outside under a magnolia tree.

When it was smaller though, I grew it in a knitter keeper with plastic wrap on top to keep in the humidity. In the keeper, I layed layers of wet peat moss to actually raise the humidity, and I had a little Tupper in the center for the pot to sit in so it wasn't sitting in the wet peat the whole time.

And bamslapyourauntiewiththatapplesauce, that was my very cheap temporary lowland terrarium, and it grew very well in there too.

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That one plant boi wrote: ↑Tue Jun 07, 2022 7:05 pmso now it grows outside under a magnolia tree.

It might help if you let OP know what region of the world you live in.

I'm in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada. Indoors is all I've got to work with.

Do you have photos of how you made it work indoors in this knitter keeper?

felinefancier87 wrote:I'm in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada. Indoors is all I've got to work with.

Do you have photos of how you made it work indoors in this knitter keeper?

I do, but they aren't great because I never took a full setup photo, but I do have a couple snaps of snippets. From these, I'm hoping you can get the gist of it.

Also, the above user is right in providing info regarding area. I'm in central Florida, so most LL neps do well here, but direct sun will fry them in hours.

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How did you keep the plant adequately heated?

felinefancier87 wrote:How did you keep the plant adequately heated?

I had the entire set up under a four foot T5 bulb fixture with four bulbs, this provided plenty of heat for it. I assume a heat mat could also be used to supplement heat, though I'd do a little research into that before trying it out.

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Do you have any links or examples of these T5 bulbs? I have no experience with them.

Google it my friend.

https://www.amazon.com/VIVOSUN-Fluoresc ... s9dHJ1ZQ==

https://www.amazon.com/Durolux-Fluoresc ... 1b45d55b2f

https://www.amazon.com/2-Pack-Grow-Ligh ... 43&sr=8-12

https://www.amazon.com/Durolux-Fluoresc ... 43&sr=8-22

I noticed that your (the OP) nep is in peat/perlite. Most neps prefer long fiber sphagnum moss, rather than the standard CP peat mix.

Oh really? Good to know.

Ok, so my question for the more experienced. I'm planning to do a terrarium setup to make my bicalcarata happy as I can't provide the heat and humidity indoors otherwise. For indoor growers, what do you do to deal with the bicalcarata outgrowing its enclosure? I live in Kelowna, BC, Canada. It is hot and dry in the summer and we get mild winters but still not suitable for outdoor growth. So do you just prune the plant? Get a trellis for the vines? A greenhouse is not an option for me in my living situation and terrariums only get so tall.