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Old 17th April 2009, 11:09 PM
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Default Re: Pitchers getting smaller

I think the problem is low humidity. But since your plant is starting to give you new pitchers, just leave it alone. It is trying to acclimatise itself to your growing environment. It will slowly produce bigger pitchers for you. Perhaps you could water it more and make sure the media is drench each time. The mistake is to keep shifting it around trying to get a perfect place for it. The plant will be stressed up trying to keep acclimatising itself.

Nepenthes do not like changes to their environment. It will be fine. However, I picture will go a long way in helping us figure out what's wrong with it.

By the way, what species did you get? If it is N. xventrata, the pitchers get smaller as it vines.
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