Nepenthes not growing new leaves
Hi everyone,
It’s been a little over a week now and my Nepenthes have basically stopped producing new leaves, or at least they’ve become extremely slow.
From left to right: Bloody Mary, Burkei, and I think a Ventrata… I say think because while I got the first two from a nursery, the last one came from a garden center.
The Bloody Mary started off incredibly well. At first, I kept it in a very, very bright veranda and as soon as it arrived from the nursery it immediately took off, producing leaves very quickly and even a pitcher that recently opened. Later, I moved it indoors into this terrarium with two 10W SANSI grow lights. Same story for the Ventrata.
The Burkei, on the other hand, was placed directly inside the terrarium under the grow lights, and since I got it (almost a month ago) it hasn’t produced a single new leaf, let alone a pitcher.
The substrate is basically the same for all of them: 50/50 sphagnum peat and perlite, with a bit of bark added.
I water them all the same way. Every evening I use a sprayer to keep the sphagnum nice and humid, and every 3–4 days I take them out and water them thoroughly, letting the water drain completely until nothing more comes out from the bottom. So the saucers are always empty.
The only one currently producing new leaves is the Ventrata, which basically never stopped growing. It may have slowed down a bit over the last two weeks, but I can see it picking up speed again.
They were all repotted together a few weeks ago, and I added Osmocote to the substrate: 4 pellets for the Burkei and 3 pellets each for the Bloody Mary and the Ventrata.
Does anyone have any idea why the Bloody Mary isn’t producing leaves even though it recently made a pitcher, and why the Burkei isn’t producing leaves at all?
Any advise is appreciated!