Question about acclimatizing plants

[Nepcromancer]

If you move a Nepenthes from one location to another, it takes time for the plant to adapt to its new environment and grow pitchers. Some of my own plants took a long time to adapt to my conditions.

Let's say you move a Nepenthes from one room to another, and the conditions (humidiy, light, temperature) are different in each room. What does the plant actually do when it is "adapting" to a new conditions and why does it not grow pitchers during this time? Is it opening/closing stomata to adjust to the different humidity, for example?

 

[hcarlton]

Traps on any carnivorous plant are highly taxing to produce, so plants will halt production of them to conserve energy and focus it on producing new leaves or structures adapted to the conditions. Any one leaf is acclimatized to the particular environment it developed in, so if conditions are drastically different the plant either has to modify the extant leaf in some manner (usually not easy or possible outside of changing pigment levels to protect against light changes) or grow new leaves adapted to the new conditions, with a differing number of stomata, thicker or thinner cuticle layers, etc. Temperature affects the metabolic rate and how fast the plant can do this; warmer temperatures-faster metabolism, good for lowland plants that can rapidly grow new organs but possibly bad for highlanders whose rates are meant to be slow and can burn out under too warm conditions. Too cold and a plant may slow down too much to adapt quickly enough to survive, or develop metabolic shock symptoms.

 

[Nepcromancer]

Thanks hcarlton, that makes sense.