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Hi Aliamyz,

For one, I can relate to your amp's pitchering problems. Through the past years I have tried four consecutive plants, all bought with basals, pitchers and main shoots, but the latter days always end up with the same condition: green leafy but pitcherless. Among other Neps that fail to give good pitchering in my garden are:

N. bicalcarata - Those damn tendrils just keep browning off
N. alata - Same case as for bical
N. fusca - The pitchers seem to stop growing abruptly
N. veitchii pink - Pitcher grew progressively smaller, became smilar case as the amps
N. albomarginata Kuching spotted - Worst of the lot. Spiralling down the sinkhole, my kuching spotted died eight months after I bought it as a healthy pitchering single plant. No offshoots even grew after the plant wilted away.

So you can see how low humidity can sometimes get in some parts of the urban jungle. The real danger of dessication is a sudden fluctuation in temperature and build up of heat in otherwise stagnant air.