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By Hedonista
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Got these two little lowland neps in the mail yesterday. They looked fine when they arrived, and I potted them up in rinsed LFSM and perlite, gave them water, put them in trays with a little water in the bottom, and stuck them under T8 grow lights. This morning they look like this.
Nepenthes today
Nepenthes today
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The one in the front is really bad. They were not bagged (I didn’t bag my other nep when it arrived and it was fine, so I didn’t think I needed to). Was it not bagging them? Was it putting them under the lights?
I assume it was my fault, because everything looked fine when it arrived, although the two Juthatip Sopers I ordered also ended up limp and floppy within a couple hours of being potted, but all the other sarracenia are fine, and so is the flytrap.
Limp Juthatip, healthy leuco x willisi
Limp Juthatip, healthy leuco x willisi
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Limp Juthatip, healthy leuco x willisii
Limp Juthatip, healthy leuco x willisii
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I don't really understand what could’ve happened to just those two sarracenia that didn’t affect the others, because if it were the shipping process, I would’ve assumed everything would’ve been affected. In the photos of the limp sarrs you can see a perfectly healthy leuco x willisii I also got yesterday. Please help me learn what I’ve done wrong.
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For nepenthes, I would always bag them and keep them out from under lights (to prevent them from cooking) for a couple of weeks until they adjust to having their roots disturbed. Sarrs i generally don't bag but I keep them in the shade for a couple of weeks after receiving them for the same reason. For the plants that you are having problems with, I would bag them and keep them out of direct light for a few days and see if they start looking better.
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How do y’all bag taller plants? I’ve been using gallon ziploc bags, but the new sarrs are too tall.
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Just bag the one that is wilting. You can just cover the pot with the bag. Definitely put them in the shade, though.
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So I’ve had the two neps bagged for the last nine days, opening them 1-2 times a day for air exchange. The one that wasn’t too bad off looks much better. It got a couple moldy leaves, which I cut off without any ill effects I can see. But…the other one has just been getting worse. Is it salvageable? And what did I do wrong now, as this was clearly not how bagging was supposed to go?
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