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Hello everyone. I have a small 10 gal highland set up. It has a 48w T5HO over it for about 14 hrs a day and the humidity stays around 80%. There is about a 10-degree temp drop at night +/-. Everything seems to be good as far as the setup goes. However, all the lower leaves seem to die off fast so only the top 3rd of the plant is green and have leaves and traps. The larges plant in this setup is about 8-10 inches across and everything else is much smaller.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

No one?

A picture would help

Here are two out of the six plants. There all the same in one way or another.

It looks like normal leaf die off to me. Notice how the stem is becoming woody? Nepenthes are vining plants. They only keep a certain number of leaves alive at any given time. Some keep more than others. With the way yours look it looks to me as though they are just shedding their lower leaves and stiffening up the stem to help support their upright growth. Looks completely normal to me.

KategoricalKarnivore wrote:It looks like normal leaf die off to me. Notice how the stem is becoming woody? Nepenthes are vining plants. They only keep a certain number of leaves alive at any given time. Some keep more than others. With the way yours look it looks to me as though they are just shedding their lower leaves and stiffening up the stem to help support their upright growth. Looks completely normal to me.

Thanks KK. I know larger ones did that but these are only a few inches tall so I was a little nervous. I got most of them from a good friend and one of them from Hollyhock. I would be pretty upset if I lost them.

Yeah I hear you on that. I have a few small Neps that only tend to keep 4-5 leaves at a time but otherwise are doing great. All yours look very healthy and happy.

They look healthy to me. We have two of the same neps.

What's your daytime high?

Huntsmanshorn wrote:What's your daytime high?

Mid to lowe 70s this time of year.

What kind o fnepenthes do you keep?