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Dried up Nepenthes miranda Pitchers

21 years ago

Hello all:

Again with the questions, It seems that every time i go to a wal mart or Lowes I happend to end up in there nursery looking for Carnivours plants to see what they have.

Recently I happedn to fall up a Walmart with a huge garden center ( for those Central Floridians on rt.535 off of hwy 192. Its funny cause i went straight into there graden center like a bug gets attracted by Nepenthes LOL, as soon as I enter to the right on the floor there were about 5 full grown to mediue size Nepenthes Miranda and cocciena by the lable at one point there were pots that had both plants growing out one single pot.

After further inspection alomost all the pitchers of the planjts where either beat up with transpotation or they had not water at all aned the pitchers where dying up.

I specifcally pick out one pot that had btoth palnts in it and there leaves where all green with minimal damage and both plants had one good pitcher either beign develope or alreadey develop. The larges nepenthes mirands there had apitcher of at least 6 inchers in l;each almost compleatly dried up I thought to my self God if I only would of known there were here I could of saved them LOL.

I ended up purshacing the nicest pot with both plants in them. I took them home and proceeded to divide them as theere mediwum was compleatly dry. I repoted them with the following one part vermiculite, one part perlite, one part peat moss, and one part orchid bark each of them sit now in there own hangging pot and I mist them every day with distilled water.

My question is in ragrds to the pitchers that are dried up righ now should I cut them off?? and where should I snip it at? Should i cut off the entire tendril where the dry pitcher is at or should I cut it closer to the pitcher area.

Im also planing of using 30-10-10 orchid Fertilizer as i have read in the the book Savage Garden by peter damato that is beneficial to nephentes for foliage growth and not blooom growth. If any one has use it the orchid fertilizer can you give me instructions on how to mix it in a gallon of distilled water.

Thanx again

Comments (8)

  • 21 years ago

    First of all, that's just odd that a Wal-Mart would be selling Nepenthes :p I've never even seen a Venus Flytrap at my local Wal-Mart!

    Anywho, cut off all those dried up pitchers. Cut them where the vine meets the actual leaf. That way the plant can still peform photosynthesis with the green leaf it has left (this is assuming all the leaves are still green and not all brown and dried up as well.)

    Just keep that Nep in good conditions and in a few weeks you'll start seeing some new pitchers!

    By the way, how much did you pay for it and how big is the plant?

  • 21 years ago

    Both plants have green leaves alaround and I paid $17 for two plants ina pot, I tell you the largest one that was there there was had a dried up pit chet at least 6 inch long.

    I think I will got back later to see if I get a good cocciena as It seems that I got two mirandas in one pot.

    The one of the the pnats is pretty big cause by the sizes of the pitchers alone and the leave span of about5 to 9 inches long the second plants looks to be a like a medium sizes.

  • 21 years ago

    The pitchers dried up because the plant was place into new conditions it is not accustom too. Getting the plant as soon as it arrived at Wal-Mart would have had the same result, just at your house.
    It seems to take about 2 to 3 months for neps to settle into there new surroundings and start to pitcher.
    That is exactly what happened to my N. hamata when I got it. It had 5 or 6 nice pitchers on it. In a few hours they were starting to dry up. Seeing a N. hamata without any pitchers was a sad site. It took about 2 months before it started to pitcher for me again. Now it pitchers non stop. Here a picture from a few months ago.
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  • 21 years ago

    Nice Hamata! Where did you get it?

  • 21 years ago

    LLeopardGGecko,
    Thanks for the comment.
    I purchased my N. hamata from Tony of Exotic Plants Plus
    http://www.exoticplantsplus.com/

  • 19 years ago

    Hi, i found any interesting plant in a Fla Kmart. and it's this one! now what do i do with it? thanks

  • 14 years ago

    I've had my Nepenthes Miranda for about 3 months and grew some new pitchers. The pitchers all started to dry up about two weeks ago--I transplanted it to a bigger pot--and the leaves spread out and look very green and (I think) happy. It's getting cold here in NY and the heat sometimes comes on.I spray it daily, if not twice. It is also hanging with many other plants, including ferns which are kept in trays of stones and water, so I think the atmosphere should be damp enough.Does it need to be fertilized- and if so how? Is African Violet fertilizer OK? What else can I do to get it through the winter (indoors of course) and to get it to blossom again?

    Thanks

  • 14 years ago

    Keep it in a bright window and keep the soil moist until spring. That's it. I don't feed my Neps until spring. I use orchid food diluted to 1/4 strength.

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