Nep pitchers dying, help! *PICS*
Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2011 8:11 pm
So I've had this nepenthes for a while.. I bought it a few months back at place called Molbaks. Just the past two weeks I've noticed some of the pitchers shriveling up and drying.. There are still a couple pitchers that haven't dried.. doesn't look like they are going to.
I keep my nep hanging in a basket next to a south facing window where it gets indirect light all day. Sometimes sun rays from the kitchen hit it directly for maybe an hour or two. My house stays anywhere from 70-80 degrees F at all times. I've read recently that neps like getting misted.. true? I've been doing it the past week once a day.. seems like it's helping.. but one can never know with plants ..immediately. At least I can't.
I thought I may have been watering too much.. so I cut down quite a bit. I heard Neps don't like their growing medium to be really wet.. and I was definitely keeping it way too wet. Could that have been my problem?
Here are a couple of the non shriveled variety:
Today I just noticed this little growth behind the plant when I took it down to take pictures of it. Is this a new one growing off the other? Could the new growth be causing my pitchers to die? This is my first nep so I have no idea.
Here are pics of the leaves.. I'm pretty confused because I feel like it looks like a healthy plant. But I'm no expert.
There is similar browning on this leaf and one other:
Sorry for posting so many pictures, and I really appreciate your taking the time to read this to help me out.
I keep my nep hanging in a basket next to a south facing window where it gets indirect light all day. Sometimes sun rays from the kitchen hit it directly for maybe an hour or two. My house stays anywhere from 70-80 degrees F at all times. I've read recently that neps like getting misted.. true? I've been doing it the past week once a day.. seems like it's helping.. but one can never know with plants ..immediately. At least I can't.
I thought I may have been watering too much.. so I cut down quite a bit. I heard Neps don't like their growing medium to be really wet.. and I was definitely keeping it way too wet. Could that have been my problem?
Here are a couple of the non shriveled variety:
Today I just noticed this little growth behind the plant when I took it down to take pictures of it. Is this a new one growing off the other? Could the new growth be causing my pitchers to die? This is my first nep so I have no idea.
Here are pics of the leaves.. I'm pretty confused because I feel like it looks like a healthy plant. But I'm no expert.
There is similar browning on this leaf and one other:
Sorry for posting so many pictures, and I really appreciate your taking the time to read this to help me out.