Thanks for these hints! My neps' leaves turned a very dark green and spotty under a new grow light I bought, and at the time I thought that everything was fine. I then did my research, reduced the light to ~15k lux and the new leaves are a lighter green, large and healthy. It really is a journey with these plants, but very rewarding.
That exact same thing happened to my N. mirabilis too! I removed the cover of my vitrine and forgot to put it back on. When I came back after 2 hours the leaves were crispy and totally dry at the edges to about 1cm inwards and the pitcher was also drying up from the top. Nearly got a heartattack, I was so shocked. But it has recovered nicely since then and had a few leaf jumps because I stuffed the dying pitcher full with osmocote pellets. The leaves are still paperthin though and if a pitcher rests on another plant and then I move it, the leaves really sag down under their own weight.
Excellent video! It took me one year to make disappear my headache with the photoblushing (leaves becoming red) this video could help too many people! on the other hand, I gotta say I’ve never had yellow leaves but I’ve always wondered how to know if I had low drainage or too much water between the roots. A very good tip!!
Hi Remy, just want to say all my questions about taking care about nepenthes has been answered by your videos! Thanks for making these videos, its very helpful and you explain everything well. Godbless man.
Great content!!!!!! Thank you , started growing highland pitcher plants at home and Jeezz* what did I got myself into lol 😂 already got 7 plants small to medium sizes and man they taking over
Thank you for this video. I only have one Nepenthes, never grown one before, and it was green when I received it from the seller, but I now know I gave it too much light. The leaves now have a reddish tinge to them and the pitchers have also turned red, but a new pitcher has formed and is about to open. Also the tiny new pitchers on the ends of the new leaves are still increasing in size. The leaves are very strong and shiny so I'm hoping it will recover in a shadier location.
I watch the video you sent me. I liked the Austin Powers clip. Yeah, it’s an old leaf that has turned yellow and black now. So my plant is healthy, I hope. All the conditions are right, so I’ll keep doing what I’m doing. Thanks.
@@WindowsillNepenthes You're correct, I will be following your seed planting guide and with any luck I'll have lots of eddies. Maybe we can trade later.
I'm really worried about my Rafflesiana seedling, it's leaves used to be red, I didn't mind it turning green but it's quite pale and it just stopped growing. Literally it's almost not growing at all, not just pitchers, new leaves seem to be struggling to come out too-! I'm not really sure what to do, but I'll try to just be more patient for now, your video calmed me down quite a bit. Thank you for the info!
Thank you for this video. I have been struggling for the past couple of days. My new plants, Gaya, BE4031 and BE3700 picked up some dark pink pigmentation on their leaves that appeared a few days ago and it seems to be colouring leaves. When I touched them, they seemed healthy, I repotted them into more perlite/sphagnum moss mix just in case, and now I have to wait and see…😢 humidity is always sustained at 70 in the day and 90 at night but I am not too sure what I causing it 😞
A good rule of thumb for the watering, wait till the top layer of moss starts to go dry. It can stay damp for quite a while. When watering, stop watering as soon as you see water start draining from the pot. Otherwise you can flood it.
Great tips 👌. For my as I have live sphagnum that I regularly spray it's harder. But I know I go 2 weeks without watering and the substrate is still humid. ;)
@@WindowsillNepenthes I ordered a ventricosa from CalCarn that has live sphagnum, orchid bark, and perlite mix. Small plant that’s got lots of leaves, couple older leaves starting to turn yellow and black, but it’s got 2 pitchers with 3 more currently growing and another leaf coming in. I did slightly overwater it when I first got it thinking maybe it was needing some and it was a little stressed from shipping, however the newer top leaves have been starting to darken up a bit more and it’s coming back up to health ^_^ I keep it in a north facing window, that gets a small amount of direct sun in the morning, followed by a supplemental 3 hours under a T5 full spectrum LED light on medium strength. Room is kept at around 75-80 during the day and between 64-70 at night, I keep a humidifier running near it just because of the fact that my heaters produce dry heat.
@@WindowsillNepenthes I love my bog plants hahaha, so I try to make them happy as possible. Got a couple outdoor gardens with Dionaea, Drosera, and Sarracenia as well ^_^
For the pitcher speed it will depend on the light+temp as for me, in summer it's way faster than in winter (on a windowsill) but I never really checked... *around 1 month* I would say. For the leaves size, on *Carnivero* 's website they say *"At high light levels, leaf size reduces while pitcher size increases".*
The leaves on my pitcher plant are very red.. I have them in a tarrarium with a grow light..it grows pitchers like crazy though..I think I have to turn my light down as I figured red leaves were not normal lol but man the pitchers just keep growing..
I repotted my Gaya a couple weeks ago, I’ve noticed all the leaves turning brown. Is this because of the repot? And more concerning, my new leaf has a pitcher and there’s a brown spot on the leaf. Is this from the repot or am I overwatering? There’s no yellow just a brown spot
If you had this plant for a few months and then after the repot it's like that, it's the repot. If you repotted a new plant, the plant is adapting to its new condition... assuming your conditions are good. ;)
Huh interesting, I was told that red leaves on a Nepenthes is a good thing. Lots of nurseries sell they plants red, so are they selling plants that aren’t great? I bought a small light for my Nepenthes and my Rebecca Soper is turning red while my Ventrata stays the same light green I’s been all along
Yes it depends of the species for sure. Doing some research on Google Image will give you an idea of the average colours of the leaves. For example "nepenthes lowii" is showing green leaves on the search result so when mine turn red, it makes me think of too much light. I may be wrong but it's potentially a clue.
Thanks for these hints! My neps' leaves turned a very dark green and spotty under a new grow light I bought, and at the time I thought that everything was fine.
I then did my research, reduced the light to ~15k lux and the new leaves are a lighter green, large and healthy.
It really is a journey with these plants, but very rewarding.
Wonderful!
And I hope your comment will also help people to test and set their lights right :)
That exact same thing happened to my N. mirabilis too! I removed the cover of my vitrine and forgot to put it back on. When I came back after 2 hours the leaves were crispy and totally dry at the edges to about 1cm inwards and the pitcher was also drying up from the top. Nearly got a heartattack, I was so shocked. But it has recovered nicely since then and had a few leaf jumps because I stuffed the dying pitcher full with osmocote pellets. The leaves are still paperthin though and if a pitcher rests on another plant and then I move it, the leaves really sag down under their own weight.
Yes Lowland nepenthes are super sensitive to humidity ;) Even too much airflow can dry the leaves.
Thank you. I learned a lot from this. I'll be keep a closer eye at my leaves now.
Excellent video! It took me one year to make disappear my headache with the photoblushing (leaves becoming red) this video could help too many people!
on the other hand, I gotta say I’ve never had yellow leaves but I’ve always wondered how to know if I had low drainage or too much water between the roots. A very good tip!!
Hi Remy, just want to say all my questions about taking care about nepenthes has been answered by your videos! Thanks for making these videos, its very helpful and you explain everything well. Godbless man.
Thanks Marius. :)
Great content!!!!!! Thank you , started growing highland pitcher plants at home and Jeezz* what did I got myself into lol 😂 already got 7 plants small to medium sizes and man they taking over
Take care, it's highly addictive ;)
Thank you for this video. I only have one Nepenthes, never grown one before, and it was green when I received it from the seller, but I now know I gave it too much light. The leaves now have a reddish tinge to them and the pitchers have also turned red, but a new pitcher has formed and is about to open. Also the tiny new pitchers on the ends of the new leaves are still increasing in size. The leaves are very strong and shiny so I'm hoping it will recover in a shadier location.
As long as the leaves aren't burnt, high light is OK. Some species/ hybrid like N. Gaya will get easily red. That doesn't mean it's bad ;)
I watch the video you sent me. I liked the Austin Powers clip. Yeah, it’s an old leaf that has turned yellow and black now. So my plant is healthy, I hope. All the conditions are right, so I’ll keep doing what I’m doing. Thanks.
You got this!
Great tips as usual. I also like your seedling videos and updates. I'm currently waiting for some edwardsiana seeds.
Thanks!
Eddy seeds... I wish you luck because they are cheap! ;)
@@WindowsillNepenthes You're correct, I will be following your seed planting guide and with any luck I'll have lots of eddies. Maybe we can trade later.
I'm really worried about my Rafflesiana seedling, it's leaves used to be red, I didn't mind it turning green but it's quite pale and it just stopped growing. Literally it's almost not growing at all, not just pitchers, new leaves seem to be struggling to come out too-!
I'm not really sure what to do, but I'll try to just be more patient for now, your video calmed me down quite a bit. Thank you for the info!
How others Nepenthes around it are doing? Did something changed the last 3 months?
Thank you for this video. I have been struggling for the past couple of days. My new plants, Gaya, BE4031 and BE3700 picked up some dark pink pigmentation on their leaves that appeared a few days ago and it seems to be colouring leaves. When I touched them, they seemed healthy, I repotted them into more perlite/sphagnum moss mix just in case, and now I have to wait and see…😢 humidity is always sustained at 70 in the day and 90 at night but I am not too sure what I causing it 😞
Your plants are adapting to their new condition and regrowing roots, give them some time ;)
@@WindowsillNepenthes thank you
Very awesome videos, thanks for you tips for nepenthes. Greetings from Mexico. Keep it up with those great videos.
Thanks!
A good rule of thumb for the watering, wait till the top layer of moss starts to go dry. It can stay damp for quite a while. When watering, stop watering as soon as you see water start draining from the pot. Otherwise you can flood it.
Great tips 👌. For my as I have live sphagnum that I regularly spray it's harder. But I know I go 2 weeks without watering and the substrate is still humid. ;)
@@WindowsillNepenthes I ordered a ventricosa from CalCarn that has live sphagnum, orchid bark, and perlite mix. Small plant that’s got lots of leaves, couple older leaves starting to turn yellow and black, but it’s got 2 pitchers with 3 more currently growing and another leaf coming in. I did slightly overwater it when I first got it thinking maybe it was needing some and it was a little stressed from shipping, however the newer top leaves have been starting to darken up a bit more and it’s coming back up to health ^_^
I keep it in a north facing window, that gets a small amount of direct sun in the morning, followed by a supplemental 3 hours under a T5 full spectrum LED light on medium strength. Room is kept at around 75-80 during the day and between 64-70 at night, I keep a humidifier running near it just because of the fact that my heaters produce dry heat.
@@DLCoates1 sounds like you know how to make you plant happy 😊
@@WindowsillNepenthes I love my bog plants hahaha, so I try to make them happy as possible. Got a couple outdoor gardens with Dionaea, Drosera, and Sarracenia as well ^_^
Very informative! What if the new leaves produced are smaller than the old leaves? And also, how long does it take for them to pitcher usually?
For the pitcher speed it will depend on the light+temp as for me, in summer it's way faster than in winter (on a windowsill) but I never really checked... *around 1 month* I would say.
For the leaves size, on *Carnivero* 's website they say *"At high light levels, leaf size reduces while pitcher size increases".*
Very helpful video, made me realize my Lady Luck is probably getting too much light!
Happy to help!
Remy's video is always so helpful, worth re-watching too!
Thanks a lot ☺️
My plant came with no pitchers and now the leaves are turning brown around edges not sure and wilting inwords
All the leaves or just the old one?
How long ago did you received you plant?
is the substrate ok?
@@WindowsillNepenthes all of them i feel like its trying to get used to my set up from where it was to where it is now
@@mrdetached7720 you probably have more light no? Like grow light maybe?
Its kept in a window in a 10 gallon tank thats upside own to hold in humidity
It did NOT appear there...🤔😂
is it ok if my leafs of a seedling nepenthes is turning pale white but growth is still fast and its still pitchering any ideas?
That happened to me, but I don't have answer sorry. As long as they grow it's good.
The leaves on my pitcher plant are very red.. I have them in a tarrarium with a grow light..it grows pitchers like crazy though..I think I have to turn my light down as I figured red leaves were not normal lol but man the pitchers just keep growing..
Red leaves with pitchers means a lot of light but not too much light. The plant pitchers so it's happy 😁 keep it this way 😊
My nepenthes is turning red and crunchy leaves. Too much sun and maybe low humidity?
No idea. What species? What's your humidity? What kind of light? ;)
I repotted my Gaya a couple weeks ago, I’ve noticed all the leaves turning brown. Is this because of the repot? And more concerning, my new leaf has a pitcher and there’s a brown spot on the leaf. Is this from the repot or am I overwatering? There’s no yellow just a brown spot
If you had this plant for a few months and then after the repot it's like that, it's the repot. If you repotted a new plant, the plant is adapting to its new condition... assuming your conditions are good. ;)
@@WindowsillNepenthes I’ve had it for over a year, I put it into a bigger netted pot, I think I might be overwatering it
@@DeadlyPlants2024 If it's the same conditions (light/temp) than yes, let it dry a bit. Gaya is strong so it should recover fast ;)
@@WindowsillNepenthes ok, I’ll let it dry out a bit. Thank you.
Trying to save two plants. Leavers are yellow and brown.
New leaves or old leaves?
My nepenthes robcantleyi new leaves turning light yellow ☹️
I would recommend you to read Carninero's article as this could be the light:
www.carnivero.com/pages/nepenthes-light-response
@@WindowsillNepenthes WOW, That's it !!!
>> ILLUMINATING
Huh interesting, I was told that red leaves on a Nepenthes is a good thing. Lots of nurseries sell they plants red, so are they selling plants that aren’t great?
I bought a small light for my Nepenthes and my Rebecca Soper is turning red while my Ventrata stays the same light green I’s been all along
Yes it depends of the species for sure. Doing some research on Google Image will give you an idea of the average colours of the leaves. For example "nepenthes lowii" is showing green leaves on the search result so when mine turn red, it makes me think of too much light. I may be wrong but it's potentially a clue.
@@WindowsillNepenthes thanks, that’s a great idea!