Wednesday, April 3, 2019

Humidity and light therapy

Help for non pitching Nepenthes plants

This Nepenthes Spathulata is a special plant as I purchased it with award regcognition money I received from work. It's the only one of my plants that's named which is Joey (don't ask). So I was sad when after arrival Joey promptly dropped both it's beautiful pitchers and refused to grow any new ones.


So after researching solutions, on 3.17.2019 I covered it with an elastic plastic food cover with a few holes cut in it for misting and put under supplemental lighting.  Don't know if it was the humidity, heat, additional lighting or all three but judge the results for yourself just a few weeks later on 4.3.2019:


Here's an updated pic taken just a few weeks later: 

Btw, this is also working for my Truncata x Talangensis hybrids


Updated pic taken on 4.29.2019!