Pitchers getting smaller

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Hi cpnut!
Thank you for the advice and encouragement . I think I will try another plant again but not anytime soon, as I want to try my hands on other CPs. I seem to have wasted alot of money trying so many times to grow amps. Also, it is not only ampullarias, but also bicals and for a good 3 years now, a hirsuta that is growing but failing to pitcher. As for mirabilis, I am quite astounded as it has not been repotted for almost 6 years already and yet new shoot after shoot has been growing out of the plant. Gracilis and Miranda as well. Rafflesiana is pitchering annually, meaning it only pitchers in flushes at certain time of the year, while rest of the time all I see are only tendrils and leaves. The strange thing I notice (you may think I'm crazy ) are that those plants not doing well in my garden are those with mostly hairy leaves ie: hirsuta, ampullaria, albomarginata, veitchii pink - never pitchered and leaves growing smaller. I don't know what that means but I thought it be worth mentioning to see if there is a catch there...

List of other Neps not pitchering/perishing in my garden include:
bical (8 years, still no pitcher )
reinwardtiana (died after six months)
alata (now pitcherless, I cut back the mother stem and 2 basals have sprouted, but not growing any faster)
ventrata (a good standing 5 years lifespan, offshoots and all)
sanguinea (the plant persisted over a period of 4 years all the while growing smaller and smaller - the exact case of Benjamin Button )