😱 💀 Why my nepenthes plant is losing all it’s pitchers? - Are you killing your new nepenthes?

[@shukitsui]

thumbs up for your creativity editing :) and of course your knowledge. Thanks. Do you by chance know why my plant starts to have back tips on it? I have been keeping it moist and it is getting enough light.

[@WindowsillNepenthes]

First, thanks a lot for your kind words ;) For the black tips, do you mean the pitcher's embryo (at the end of the leaf) get dark and stop growing?

[@shukitsui]

@@WindowsillNepenthes oh they are at the end of the leaves. My plant doesn't make pitcher any more:( but it still looks healthily green. I have it for about 2 months, and it's very small, I know that through changing environment from the store, it probably has gone through some stress.

[@WindowsillNepenthes]

@@shukitsui so it's probably a lack of light and/or humidity. What is your %humidity?

[@shukitsui]

@@WindowsillNepenthes the weather forecast said it's around 64% ,I live in San Diego ,so it's probably drier, I can try using a humidifier. Does spraying water on it helps? I have been doing that. Thanks for your time again.

[@WindowsillNepenthes]

@@shukitsui Spraying at night will boost the humidity for few hours, during the day as it's dries up quickly, it helps 1 hour... The humidifier would help more. Also check that you have enough light.

[@kimberlytucker9315]

I needed this video so badly. I’ve been scouring KZbin for this exact message and validation. I’ve had my pitcher plant for 3 weeks and needed to know I’m doing it right. Thank you!

[@WindowsillNepenthes]

Glad it was helpful!

[@Ashley-ev7wp]

I love the cutaways to add humor!

[@WindowsillNepenthes]

Thanks :) I try to add one per video.

[@funker1986]

Explained very nicely and completely correct. 👍🏻👌🏻 Greets from Germany

[@WindowsillNepenthes]

Thanks ;)

[@AtraxJoe]

Pretty nice video, just a quick note at min 2:23 I think a "p" is missing in the name of N. ampullaria 😉. Btw., quick tip for beginners: I've received some Nepenthes just 2 weeks ago, very small specimens and it took 8 days to arrive but I've lost no single pitcher. It's very very important to refill the pitcher with dest h2o to prevent them from drying out. Cheers

[@WindowsillNepenthes]

Good catch, Thanks! I'll rewrite the name tag. So you think we can prevent the pitchers from dying by filling them with water? I'll thy that next time!

[@AtraxJoe]

@@WindowsillNepenthes 100% sure. In particular immediately after delivery, when they've lost all the liquid in their pitchers, it's very very important to refill the pitchers (around 50%) with rain or dest water. The plant will reproduce the digestive enzymes step by step, no prob but the water will prevent the pitchers from drying out and dying. Except one of the pitchers is an old one, of course, this will die anyways 😉. This is actually pretty common after you've received some new carnivorous plants, same for eg Cephalotus follicularis or Sarracenia sp.. Cheers

[@combatgirl38]

Wonderful! Thank you, Sir! Basic critical thinking with the focus on encouragement. This is just what I needed to hear.

[@maksgrygiel]

My ventrata was growing healthy without pitchers for 4 years due too lag of light and humidity about a meter from west facing window and it had 4 shoots, each one was more than 2m and it was crazy, but i sadly went out of space and it also had 2 basal shoots so I decided to cut all of them and I had more than 150 clones which i all sold. For these money I bought N. Gaya, veitchii x Hurrelliana, Lowii x ventrata and few sarracenia, dionea, sundew and Mars hydro growlight. Now I plan to let it grow as long as it wants and with humidifier which I bought about week ago and grow light it will just explode with growth. This crazy ventrata after 6 months after cutting huge shoots now is 30 cm in height (2separate grow points, 3cm in height during cutting) and it is already producing 4 basal shoots and 3 shoots between Leafs in the middle of the vine. It is branching like a tree so I think it will look really strange in few months.

[@WindowsillNepenthes]

Impressive! Your plant produce a lot of basal! It's always good to be able to sell some plants to get new one.

[@maksgrygiel]

When u want lots of basal, first u have to give it higher humidity (65-80%) and than stress it out. By this I mean just cut out the grow point at 45% in the way, that above the leaf is from 5 to 10 mm and on the other side the cut starts about 2mm above the leaf. It will promote few basal shoots and thankful to cutting it in the right way you won’t loose this big shoot and it will most likely grow from the point where the leaf connects to the stem, and sometimes like in my case from the middle of the plant, so u can get from 2 up to 8 grow points out of 2.

[@sarrakitty]

I have a plant that was dealing with an infestation of scale insects and lost all it's pitchers eventually. I have been treating it with an insecticide and it has been recovering. No new pitchers yet but some of the tendrils do extend, so I think it's only a matter of time before they come back, just as long as I make sure the scale is eradicated.

[@WindowsillNepenthes]

Yes it should be ok but how did you suspected you got scales?

[@sarrakitty]

@@WindowsillNepenthes I know where they came from I'm pretty sure. A ficus bonsai tree I had to bring in for the winter had them. I treated it too, but it was in the same room as my pitcher plants last winter. Last summer I used insecticidal soap on it several times but apparently that was not enough because the scales re-appeared later in the winter. I tried a systemic insecticide on the affected plants and have not seen them on the ficus all summer, and after a second treatment of the pitcher plant I see no more there either. I will keep a close eye on them though, and I wiped off any visible ones on the leaves. I give it about a year or some more months before I'm convinced that they are gone for good. Have to stay vigilant with these pests! Fortunately this one plant is the only one of my pitchers I am aware of the scales having spread to. I treated two others that were next to it on my grow shelf and have not seen a single scale on them. Also I took the infested plant and moved it away from the others while I was treating it. Have you done a video about pesticides and pitcher plants? Might be a good topic. The one I used is imidacloprid, but have heard others used as well.

[@WindowsillNepenthes]

@@sarrakitty good call! What systemic did you use?

[@sarrakitty]

​@@WindowsillNepenthes Bonide brand imidacloprid, the product is called "Systemic House Plant Insect Control"

[@ZachSmithMusic93]

Just got in a N. Deroose x Alata, and it has a couple of pitchers on it, one definitely older (or had way more sun) than the other, but I noticed the older one, the little top lip leaf on the mouth of the pitcher is browned a little and curling a tad. I mist the plant twice a day, and it sits at night for a few hours in a tray of lava rock and water (not the plant standing in water) until a new grow light arrives where I can keep it there all the time. I was a tad worried for my plant, but even if I lose this pitcher, or even both, it appears to be developing new ones and definitely growing new leaves, which means I've got things right for it as its acclimating I hope! Thanks for this!

[@WindowsillNepenthes]

Yes, your new plant is probably just adapting you your conditions :)

[@PrestigeTopicsPT]

Very informative!! I have two young nepenthes Alatas and this helped me out a lot 💪🏽

[@peter3751]

Fantastic video answered alot of questions for me

[@rageoftheredphoenix]

I am growing a smaller alata and was very careful yet a lid appears to be burned. Don’t know why.

[@christiesilva6918]

Hi again, today i was repotting my nepenthes plant, cause look like its dying, and in the old medium where it was in , i found a live worm....what does this mean?, thank you

[@WindowsillNepenthes]

The work is probably eating the roots... I would change the substrate. But that never happen to me as my plants are inside. Vermicide?

[@christiesilva6918]

@@WindowsillNepenthes thanks i already changed it...if the worm was eating the roots thats why is was probably why it was losing all its leaves...thanks ...is it normal for worms to grow in the substrate? Thanks again

[@WindowsillNepenthes]

@@christiesilva6918 Outdoor, it's possible yes but still rare. But I'm not an expert of outdoor. ;)

[@christiesilva6918]

@@WindowsillNepenthes ok thank you!!

[@SN1P3R808]

Well done video! I've learn lots of things about growing Nepenthes.

[@WindowsillNepenthes]

Happy to help ;)

[@bigfil1981]

Thank you Remy!

[@davidherreranieto5492]

I came here hoping I would find out how to remove the dry Browning pitchers. Do you cut At the pícher or at the leaf?? Everything else seems healthy on my plant growing new even with old pitchers drying/ browning. Advice welcome and thank You

[@WindowsillNepenthes]

You can cut where the leaf ends and the tendril starts. Even when the pitcher is fully dead, the leaf can last up to a year and provides energy to the plant.

[@MrOakGamer]

Great video! Direct and simple, loved it!

[@WindowsillNepenthes]

Glad you liked it!

[@annepowell756]

yes, like the video and the humor too!

[@marcipicci4414]

I aree that the light is very important. I have some Nepenthes (Rebecca Soper in this case) that were doing great outside in the summer, bright large pitchers. Now in winter they haven't produced any because there is not enough light. I would have to buy a grow lamp it they were not so expensive haha :) But the plant itself is very healthy and it has many shiny leaves.

[@WindowsillNepenthes]

It almost the same for me, during winter, (except the highlands hybrids) most of the plants slow down a lot. But I know in spring everything will restart. :)

[@DeadlyPlants2024]

I’ve noticed the lid to my Veitchii x lowii pitcher is starting to rot, it’s only 2 months old. Is this normal? I thought the pitchers last, at least a few months, especially when I have them in high humidity.? I haven’t overwatered. I didn’t overfeed it. One of my fans is kind of close to it. Too much airflow directly at the pitcher?

[@WindowsillNepenthes]

It depends on your condition and it the pitcher was fed ;)

[@TheDoggo07]

Love it! Thanks!

[@rollzolo]

Heard nepenthes love high humidity, I grow mine in a seedling tent. With yours by the window in the summer how does it work if you have the air conditioner on?

[@WindowsillNepenthes]

Yes, most of the intermediates like 40-60% humidity, but good light is even more important. For air conditioner, yes. I keep the temp around 25ºC/77ºF the day and at night it's 18ºC/65ºF. Take care with closed setup like a tent, if the sun hit it directly the heat will build up inside and you risk cooking the plants. Make sure the sun don't touch the tent ;)

[@rollzolo]

@@WindowsillNepenthes thanks. I use indoor plant lighting.

[@WindowsillNepenthes]

@@rollzolo All the time or when the daylight reduce (winter)?

[@rollzolo]

@@WindowsillNepenthes I have hookerianas. They have no dormancy I guess

[@WindowsillNepenthes]

@@rollzolo Nepenthes don't need dormancy as they come from tropical areas. ;)

[@FestiveBohemian]

Hey! 👋🏼 Fellow VRA here. Great video 👍🏻 I’ve had a pitcher plant for sometime now, he looks happy other than he has no pitchers left on him (I cut them off cause that’s what I was told to do 🤷🏼‍♀️)... how do I get them to grow back? Move him to brighter light or should I remove some of the leaves so it can Focus on making new pitchers? 🙏🏻

[@WindowsillNepenthes]

Hi! To grow pitchers, your plant need 2 things: good light & humidity (40-50%). So move it on a bright window and you can put water container beside if your house is really dry. But most of the time, sunny window is enough ;)

[@Dayinthelifeofawiener]

I can’t get it to make very many pitchers. Although it grows a lot and is over 7’ tall. Any tips for getting it to make pods? Also I’m not sure how to handle how tall it’s getting, as it grows the bottom leaves die off so it had a good foot at the bottom that has no leaves now. Before it was so big I repotted and buried the older sections but now it’s so tall I would need a pot that was very deep to do that.

[@WindowsillNepenthes]

For the vine you can always cut it and try to root them. For no pitcher, it can be a lack of light and/or humidity.

[@lalie61]

I bought a tiny dried ventrata from the garden center. It was clearly dying from thirst, so I asked my boyfriend to water it from the bottle straight away. The next day i could see it was already happier. Then i gave it a bigger pot. I heard no soil, rotten stuff ok. I put dead leaves and stuff, perlites,rocks, chunk of moss with very little soil and other light stuff in the pot. It grew extremely fast. Japan is humid, so i left it outside, it was taking the rain , and super happy. In winter it is very dry inside, so i leave it in the humid bathroom for a few months. Japanese take bath like all the time, so it was humide enough. But light not good cuz the window is not clear so i knew I should remouve it asap. A few pitchers died or half died but then spring came and it is on the balcony again. There is a roof on the balcony now, so it changed our habit + i cannot collect rain water. But now the pitchers are huge and it made a baby. I cut the tiny thing but it does not like soil and also i cut it without precaution. Trying to save it in hydroponic system , see if it roots.

[@WindowsillNepenthes]

I feel you are doing a good job with the plant! Yes soil isn't great that is why we use moss. Some people use akadama with success but it's rare and expensive here. Did you tried? And for the bathroom, a small 24w grow light would fix the problem ;)

[@Kyddoemiko13]

Who was the green anime character? It is so very true and so nail biting the time of acclamation for a Nepenthes or any other house plant to adjust to its new home. 🍃☺️🏠🍃 Awesome video !

[@WindowsillNepenthes]

The green guy is from "Batman and Harley Quinn" (2017) ;)

[@theocarabin]

Bonjour j'adore tes vidéo out d'abord et je voulais s'avoir comment se porte ta N Lowï est elle d'derrière la fenêtre aussi ? ? moi je les mis dans un terrarium bocal de 50 cm de haut et le soir je met 2 pain de glace bleu le jour il fait 20 .tous le temp et le soir j'ai pas encore regardé j'ai pas de thermomètre encore mais j'espère que sa va aller je lai eu toute petite Merci

[@WindowsillNepenthes]

Merci! Oui lowii est à la fenêtre. Pour l'instant ça pousse lentement. J'espère qu'avec le retour du printemps je vais avoir un piège complètement formé. Je ferai une mise a jour bientôt ;)

[@duncanpage1556]

Good morning, LOVE your Nep vids! just wondering where I can buy live plants online? found several but don't ship to CANADA ....Thanks Duncan from Alberta

[@WindowsillNepenthes]

Brads and Little Green for sure. Have a look at the plants here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/p6HWYmaEftaqnLs I have another one but I never tested so I don't know.

[@marijoblazevic494]

I have a question how Long will it Take for my Pitcher plant to get used to its New conditions.

[@marijoblazevic494]

Its a nepenthes hybride so so pretty much alata i think

[@WindowsillNepenthes]

Up to 2 months when you have good condition, up to 6 if it's less good.

[@marijoblazevic494]

Thanks!

[@marijoblazevic494]

And one more question,is it stressful for my pitcher if he is getting used to the environment and maybe after a month getting moved again.I bought my pitcher plant in Oktober and I'm moving on the start of December.

[@marijoblazevic494]

Oktober 20 I bought him

[@arielbautista8218]

One of the pitchers on my nephentes is starting too look kind of moldy at the bottom of the pitcher and the top, I had put a millipede in it to eat and sprayed distilled water inside the pitcher… could that be causing the change of color?

[@WindowsillNepenthes]

Pitchers live and die ;) Even if there is too much food and the pitcher rot, it's harmless to the plant and it will still helps the growth. Nature does just fine 😊

[@arielbautista8218]

@@WindowsillNepenthes I get that, I just feel awful that I caused this particular one to happen 😔 So the pitcher is dying then? Because I have another pitcher that’s turning brown which is usually the case, I’m worried something else is happening to the one turning a moldy green😔

[@WindowsillNepenthes]

@@arielbautista8218 let me know in 10 days but that should be ok. ;)

[@arielbautista8218]

@@WindowsillNepenthes okay thank you for the feedback sir Remi🥹 just one more question , my nephentes is still kind of young and it’s winter time, would it be safe to keep it in the plastic dome it came in? It has an air hole for the air flow and I keep it by my aero garden for the light and just mist to keep up the humidity.😅

[@WindowsillNepenthes]

@@arielbautista8218 The dome is ok if your humidity is low. Usually during winter it's the lack of light that can be a problem.

[@petermakescartoons]

can you make a video about how to know when nepenthes skip pitchers.

[@WindowsillNepenthes]

That would be a good video but I don't know if you can be sure the pitcher will be skipped before it does. I'll see if I can find info about it.

[@waynerichards2944]

Good info there mate 👍🦘

[@ninan3311]

Your video is so whimsical!! 😂 you’re super awesome now, but this is hilarious! Love it.

[@WindowsillNepenthes]

Yes the first videos were horrible 😭 I'm so ashamed of them I can't watch them.

[@deemueller6470]

I know this video is 2 yrs old but I have decided to grow pitcher plants. I have always wanted to but didn't think I could here in Alabama. I thought they had to be outside plants. Something I read somewhere, probably. There is so much misinformation on older websites. I received my 1st baby (2.5cm) plant via shipping. It arrived with larger leaves that were standing straight up but they were a bright yellow with only a little green running down middle of leaves. There was 2 tiny pitchers that looked bad and have now (2 days later) turned black. There is 1 small dark green leaf at base of plant. I watched the video about them shutting down the pitcher while they adapt so I feel better about that. How can I bring the green back to the leaves or is it in danger of dying. There is no sunburn red on leaves. The tiny pot had plastic wrapped around it with humidity droplets but when I took the plastic wrap down to check; the sandy soil was hard and kinda dry. I would appreciate help from anyone! Don't want to lose my first baby, lol. I have been growng aloe and orchids. I started with 2 venus fly traps because I read they were easiest. I haven't killed them so I really wanted to try my life long dream plant. Thank you from a new subscriber!

[@brou971]

So should cut the pitcher if it's dried out?

[@WindowsillNepenthes]

If they are fully black/dry then yes. If some parts are still green, you don't have to cut them but if you do you can cut them without problem for the plant ;)

[@brou971]

@@WindowsillNepenthes Thanks! I decided to cut it since it came in a very rough condition compared to the other pitchers. Great video, you got a new sub.

[@DeaDiabola]

Came here to geek out over some killer plants, stayed for the adorable french guy :D

[@WindowsillNepenthes]

Haha thanks 😊

[@Anonymouss222]

Thank god I found your channel!

[@Krieg652]

This is so useful

[@jerrysmith3017]

Anybody know where the laughing green monster guy is from?

[@WindowsillNepenthes]

research in KZbin: "Ending | Batman and Harley Quinn" ;)

[@kension333]

My pitcher grows a lot of leaves and looks really healthy. It just doesn't make any pitchers. Been about a year now... Like I said, awesome leaf growth, just no pitchers.

[@WindowsillNepenthes]

So it's a lack of light or humidity. What species is it?

[@kension333]

@@WindowsillNepenthes Monkey cup. Some kind of Nepenthes. If I had to guess, an Alata. Def not lack of light. I'll start misting it a couple times a day and see what happens. All of the pitchers fell off when I brought it home. Since then it's about tripled in size, it's just not making pitchers.

[@WindowsillNepenthes]

@@kension333 So it's a lack. of humidity. Did you tried to move it on the kitchen or a bathroom to see how it grow in a more humid environment?

[@kension333]

@@WindowsillNepenthes Not nearly enough light in either. Live in an apartment. Has a tiny window in the bathroom and the kitchen only has north facing windows with next to no light. I'll mist it and see if I can get it to flower. It could be that I got it when fall started, it lost its leaves from the change in greenhouse to livingroom. Now, I'm hopefully waiting for spring and photo period to get longer to trigger more pitcher growth. That the only spot with enough light though.

[@MattMajcan]

i brought home the biggest nepenthes at the store a week or two ago and all the giant magnificent pitchers are dying, im so sad. I think the leaves are fine though, hopefully its just adjusting

[@WindowsillNepenthes]

Give it enough light will 50% humidity and wait 😉

[@MaliqIbrahim-1306]

My Sarracenia thrived just because it got forgotten, and not get over feeding, unlike the other plant, yes i am a bad owner.

[@WindowsillNepenthes]

You're not a bad owner lol It's only hard to resist!

[@MaliqIbrahim-1306]

Yeah

[@MaliqIbrahim-1306]

Welp gud night!

[@MaliqIbrahim-1306]

Atleast, to my place it's night

[@hannahtezza706]

HI, MY NAME IS ANNETTE. I'M A BABY BEGINNER WITH CARNIVOROUS PLANTS. IF THE PICHTERS ARE GONE, DO YOU NEED TO FEED THEM? AND HOW? I ALSO HAVE A VENUS FLY TRAP THAT IS VERY TINY, ONLY AS BIG AS MY LITTLE FINGER NAIL. I AM CONFUSED TO KNOW WHAT TO DO. CAN YOU PLEASE HELP ME? I HAVE BEEN WATCHING YOUR KZbinS AND LEARNING A LOT FROM YOU. THANKING YOU SO MUCH, KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK. MANY BLESSINGS, ANNETTE QUEENSLAND AUSTRALIA

[@WindowsillNepenthes]

I don't know the Nepenthes species you have, but if you don't have pitchers, it's a lack of light and possibly humidity. Try to give it more light if your humidity is 50% or more. ;)

[@WindowsillNepenthes]

And no, no need to feed them.

[@alejandrotobienne584]

I like your humor lol

[@WindowsillNepenthes]

Thanks! I try to make the video as fun as possible :)

[@weirdboyrox]

Would you challenge your nepenthes to grow outdoor? Some nepenthes like maxima and ventricosa pretty easy to adapt to new environments.

[@WindowsillNepenthes]

I'll soon try x ventrata outside this year. ;) For better species I'll see later...

[@weirdboyrox]

@@WindowsillNepenthes I've read sourses that once the plant grows outside, they are even more robust than the greenhouse version. I also added Scott's DiseaseEX on the pitcherplants and they grow like their on steroids. Technically the fungicide is NOT a fertilizer while it kills root rot bacteria and stimulate growth! Ps. Learned the method from another youtuber who also learned it from a forum.

[@WindowsillNepenthes]

@@weirdboyrox thanks for the tips! For the summer outdoor it's possible but if can also be to much changes for the plant and it will take few weeks to adapt. (And then Fall will come and you take it back inside and re-change the conditions and the plant will again have to adapt...

[@weirdboyrox]

@@WindowsillNepenthes Thank you for the fast response! Looking forward to more of your videos as it really helps. I was wondering if you can recommend some nurseries?

[@WindowsillNepenthes]

@@weirdboyrox Well in Canada yes, but as I can't order outside the country...

[@xLebre]

Hello, I'm from Brasil, and my plant is turning black and hard... I didn't find anything about it, do you know what could be going on? 🤔🥺

[@WindowsillNepenthes]

Hi Leticia, how long have you had your plant? Do everything turn black or only old leaves and pitchers?

[@jerrywhidby.]

"Plants don't move." Socratea exorrhiza has entered the chat.

[@WindowsillNepenthes]

Haha I didn't know this species :) I love Mother Nature! But it's still not moving a lot right? It's like moving maximum 3 meters per year, so the growing condition (climate) won't change a lot ;)

[@OOFOI]

Tu parle mieux anglais que moi

[@WindowsillNepenthes]

Mon secret c'est qu'une fois que j'ai eu une une compréhension basique, j'ai regardé beaucoup de série tv directement en anglais et sans sous-titres ;)

[@OOFOI]

Bonne technique 👏👏😂

[@OOFOI]

C’est original

[@OOFOI]

En tout cas j’adore ce que tu fais

[@mikedinni6318]

Thanks for the info. But I couldn't watch any more than I had to. The constant cutting of the video to make sentences complete is doing my head in. Sounds like you're a robot, or you've not said it at all and someone has stitched a load of clips together to make it sound like you've said it 😐

[@WindowsillNepenthes]

That was my first video haha. I'll redo one later.

[@AlainCh2.]

@@WindowsillNepenthes Really ??? So I went back all your story at the windowsill? ( you were great from the beginning )

[@WindowsillNepenthes]

@@AlainCh2. haha your nice. I can't rewatch myself on the first video. But I'm getting better now.