DragonsEye
carnivorous plants of the world -- unite!
So late summer/fall of 2016, I got a couple cephs each from two members here. One of each didn't survive more than a month or two but I have heard/read that cephs don't take well to barerooting so chalked it up that. Plants were put on a shelf on my lighted plant stand. I allowed the 4" pots to stand in a centimeter or two of water refilling when the water was almost gone or gone for only a day or so. Humidity was very low and temps were largely in the 6t0s to mid 70sF. Over the course of that winter, one -- a 'vigorous' clone did very well and gave me a couple nice pitchers. The plant #2 put out a few leaves and near the end of winter gave me a few small pitchers. Summer came and I moved both plants to a windowsill with western exposure but largely shaded by a large pine tree. Vigorous put out a couple more pitchers than stopped growing. Plant #2 put out several mature pitchers. I fed both plants during this time with a few betta food pellets. Near the end of summer, the suffered an attack of some white fuzzy fungi. I sprayed both with some RD20/Physan. Seem to take care of the mold issue. As temps fell this fall, I moved both plants back to the plant stand. Vigorous started putting out 4 pitchers, #2 still just kind of sat there. About mid November, noticed one of the pitchers on Vigorous was discoloring as were pitchers and leaves on #2. Retreated with a spritz of Physan in hopes of heading off a fungal attack if that was the issue. Vigorous has not lost its remaining 3 developing pitchers but #2 is down to one leaf and that one is yellowing so I do not expect it to last much longer (stem also is brown). Considering they both did fine on that stand last winter, rather mystified (and bummed) as to what's gone wrong.