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Muluensis x Lowii slow death...

carnivoure12

Hear the Call of Nepenthes
Hey everyone, my Muluensis x lowii was doing beautiful, even pitchering up until june, ever since then its been downhill, here are pics, any ideas whats happening?

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:cry: He was a brave, brave soul.
 
Slow growing plants also die slowly, it seems :(
 
sorry to hear this...
Mine is finally picking up and growing o.o
 
hmmm!! I would associate it either with heat or fungus or perhaps both.
 
Yeah, it looks like your plant is rotting.
 
i see someone deleted my photo, but what i was trying to say is mine looked like that after a mite attack, but it came back....maybe not quite that bad, but for awhile it did nothing and looked almost completely dead...hope it produces a basal or something for you...
 
thats exactly what mine did. newest and oldest leaves are dead and the middle leaves are at least semi ok. i dont know what killed mine but it went the way yours did =[

Alex
 
i see someone deleted my photo

That was me; and sorry I didn't get a chance to pm you about it; my dog started chewing up the world and I totally forgot.

but what i was trying to say is mine looked like that after a mite attack, but it came back....maybe not quite that bad, but for awhile it did nothing and looked almost completely dead...hope it produces a basal or something for you...

The reason I deleted the post was because it did not contribute to the discussion on helping carnivore diagnose his problem and was just a "here is my plant" picture post.

Carnivore - it's pretty serious, I would certainly isolate the plant from the others. I can't remember exactly, but I think something similar was diagnosed as a fungus a while back. I think I remember Tony talking in depth about it a while back on someone else's plant.

xvart.
 
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It has happened to me before on the same plant xvart, sorry i wasnt more detailed on that....
I dont think his plant is past the point of recovery, but its definitely getting there.
Basal production anyway, i think the growth tip is toast....or a node further down the vine, looks like the black death....
Edit:
looking at the tip some more, it looks like it could pull back, id definitely ask Tony P about this one.
 
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Oh noooo!! Is it the dreaded black death??? it doesn't look like it to me... hmmm I remember I diagnosed DrWurms plant with Black death, i should look at mine again.

Also this nep is the only one in Live sphagnum.
 
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i wouldnt say its black death, just looks kinda like it, i guess after looking at it it, not all of the leaves have blackened off up to the growth tip
but i do think you have some sort of root rot issue. what is your media
 
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The Basals also died, its pure live sphagnum... I think you're right too much water...
 
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pure live sphagnum works great for some people
how is your air circulation
and i would try something a little more airy and better draining...
 
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