What are some Nepenthes you just cant seem to get right?

[Chris_Himself]

Amusingly, my Sanguinea and Spectibilis aren't working for me. Probably damaged roots on shipping. But something that is healthy and isn't pitchering is N. Talangensis that I got a couple weeks ago. I think high light, low nights, and a feeding regimen will force it to give itself to me

I also could not get N. Gracilis to grow right because I couldn't manage it! The damn thing just would NOT stop growing even in winter and something that grows that fast goes thru a lot of water as well.

 

[Wolfn]

Nepenthes Ampullaria. I've ordered them three times, and they always go into suspended animation when they arrive and then slowly rot away. All other Neps grow just fine.

 

[Lil Stinkpot]

N. stenophylla. Picky, picky, picky!

 

[porcinip]

My bad luck Neps are, Ramispina, Macfarlanei and Burbidgeae....

 

[ellisonk001]

N madagascariensis really seems to hate me.... I haven't given up yet, but I just can't seem to make them happy.

 

[thez_yo]

I second that amp...burb doesn't do well either XD

 

[BigBella]

At the outset, both Nepenthes jacquelineae and N. villosa were a bit of a pain in the arse, probably because the two were about the size of a dime -- if not smaller -- when I received them; and I spent a good deal of time just ensuring that the sphagnum moss didn't overgrow them.

I truly thought they were both toast . . .

Nepenthes villosa -- 2007

 

[Chris_Himself]

Have you guys tried fertilizing your plants that didn't grow? My Sanguinea has been sending out useless leaves for like a year and started producing some decent ones after a hit of MaxSea.

Never convince yourself to go with a new nursery if the old one is doing just fine for you. This is the saddest little Sang that I've seen and I get so jealous looking at everybody elses =/

 

[Jayson16]

I second the N. ramispina. Mine just never grew, it just stayed the same. It was the only plant that never grew for me.

 

[billylh]

my Red Leopard I got at the NASC auction 2 years ago is the only one for me that never stops pitchering but my amp never does, and my ventricosa died...everything else merely survives.

 

[macamus3]

I've never had any problem with any of the lowland species/hybrids. Highlanders are another story. N. argentiii - I killed two of these and my third I gave it away. N. ramispina ( one of my favorites) my first one died, my second one grew like a weed, flowered, main vine died and then a basal grew before I gave it away. Anyhow I'm sticking to lowlander/intermediates only now. Gave away most of my highlanders. Kept my N. khasiana which grows like a weed in lowland conditions and an N. platychila which is doing well in lowland conditions.

 

[Indigo]

N.Rajah... I got 2 of them. I baby them with intense light and high humidity and night time temeperature drop they just don;t do well for me. and slow as snail

 

[dashman]

My ventricosa x inermis is the only nep I have that has never pitchered for me. It grows really well, but just doesn't pitcher.

I have unpotted and repotted in fresh media, it has healthy roots and everthing. I just don't know why it hates me so.

I am thinking of giving this one the coffee treatment. I have tried just about everything else...

 

[Wesley]

BigBella: I thoroughly enjoyed your use of a Euro piece as a scale.

My hard one always seems to be N. 'Judith Finn'. It has just existed for a few years.... I recently repotted it to see if it would revive itself.

 

[nightsky]

I'll also add to the ramispina list. It has grown very slowly and when it does pitcher, they are small and pathetic. I have a sanguinea red that has grown extremely slowly for me also, 2 inches in height in 3 years. Not at all what I expected.

 

[Exo]

N.rajah and N.northiana.....burbidgeae does OK for me, if very slow.

On the other hand, I nearly have to beat back my sanguinea (blood red) with a stick to keep it from eating me when I open my grow chamber. It grows VERY fast for me

 

[Chris_Himself]

Sanguinea orange is the one that grows fast right? I'm trying not to beat my sanguinea to death out of frustration. Also I have a spectibilis which is going thru the same thing. A BE supplier on the east coast sent me a potted plant which became a bareroot in transit. Why do all my favorites come broken =(

 

[Clue]

My very healthy khasiana died earlier this winter... it just started turning black. I'm looking for another one, but I'm in no rush.

 

[Nepfreak]

densiflora, singalana, diatas... that whole bunch.
Also gymnamphora. I thought it was easy because it grew like a weed in a terrarium of sphagnum moss with a little fluorescent light on it. So I took it out to the rack... DIE.
Same with tentaculata. But the aristo hung in there.

 

[vraev]

At the outset, both Nepenthes jacquelineae and N. villosa were a bit of a pain in the arse, probably because the two were about the size of a dime -- if not smaller -- when I received them; and I spent a good deal of time just ensuring that the sphagnum moss didn't overgrow them.

I truly thought they were both toast . . .

Nepenthes villosa -- 2007

lol BigB! This was my villosa when I received it as well. ;p