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Good day. I bought a baby gj bloody nurse back in January and within the past month noticed that it has been getting yellow and dying off. I just did a soil change hoping that was it last week. Any suggestions? I had it in sphagnum moss and just changed it to peat soil for carnivorous plants. Distilled water obviously and it’s been in the same windowsill since I got it.
This is how it looks now. The leaves are limp and yellowing.


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How much sun does it get? What soil mix are you using?

The light is my Q, too.

Windowsill is fine for dormancy, but it needs full sun or 16 hours under led panels during the growing season. I’ve heard GJ Bloody Nurse is one of the fussier cultivars, so it might do better under lights.

silverfly wrote: ↑Sun May 28, 2023 9:09 pmand it’s been in the same windowsill since I got it.

There's the answer as to why it's declining.
It can be the sunniest windowsill, receiving 23.8 hours of sunlight a day, and the plant will still, slowly die. Modern glass filters sunlight, and what it filters out is what the plant needs for long term health. Outside on a cloudy day is better than a sunny windowsill, that plant needs unfiltered sun.
I'm usually a tough love guy, but your plant is pretty sorry right now, so it will need to be acclimated. Assuming the media is appropriate (just because it's labeled as carnivorous plant media doesn't mean it's right), put it outside in a spot that gets a couple of hours of sun starting at sunrise, no more, and leave it there for a week. The next week put it in a spot that gets three hours, then four hours the next. Eventually leaving it in a spot, outside, with at least six hours of direct sunlight per day.

Ok. Good to know. I use long fiber nz sphagnum moss and
I normally bring my plants outside during the late spring/early summer and and a west facing window during the rest of the months that gets the afternoon sunlight.


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