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I have a big nepenthes ventricosa that I received this winter. It has 3 plants that are about 1.5 meters long and another 2 plants that are 30cm. When I got it it had about 15 pitchers that were half dried up, but now it barely has 3 pitchers that are almost dried up. It sits on my balcony's window sill, south facing window, humidifier next to it, distilled water, spaghnum moss. The leaves are growing just fine. It has also flowered about 1 month ago, but no pitchers. I have a gaya next to it that is growing pitchers just fine, a sarracenia purpurea as well.

From what I know it helps the growth if you spray the pitchers with water so I try doing that but nothing. It does help the gaya grow them faster.

Any suggestions?

Pictures would help

Nepenthes hate to change environments even more than Drosera, and can take months to stop pouting. As long as it's green and alive, just give it time to get over it.

Here are some pictures if it helps

It's doing just fine, growing sometimes 2 leaves per week, I just wanna see those beautiful pitchers already! I recently got into carnivorous plants and I would love to see a plant with mature pitchers. This one should grow some and I'm very happy I got if for free

Can you elaborate on growing conditions? What day and night temperatures? What relative humidity? What’s the grow media? How many hours of sunlight ? Any supplement lights ? How long?

Rhe temp fluctuates a lot bot I would say around 23C day, 15-18C night. The humidity is about 60-65%. It's in spaghnum moss. It gets direct sunlight for about 6-7h, the rest is indirect. I water it when I feel the top spaghnum dry

The seed pods could be taking up a lot of energy. Ventrata is sterile anyway. my plants do not really pitcher much till July then they mass pitcher I think its humidity in my case.

6-7 hours of direct sun should have it blushing orange but its very dark green and healthy i would just give it more time and make no changes.

I kept the seed pots because I wanted to see it grow, I've never had one so I was curious.

It's strange to me how it's so green, my other nepenthes has all new leaves orange and the sarracenia is slowly turning purple.