Tiny spiders I coexist with. The big garden (sometimes wolf) spiders that get in after the rain either go into the yard for the anoles to hunt or into a pitcher if it looks like the capture was too rough. Captures have been rough lately.
FWIW: newbie opinion.
Personally, I would wait on clipping a smaller plant. I have some smaller nepenthes from Exotic Gardens in the plastic terrariums. I'd be afraid that the smaller leaves would be very prone to wilting and that the cutting might not take. My young nepenthes are really starting to grow and harden right now. I don't want to upset a good thing.
Once they get older, under good conditions, they seem to grow like crazy.
OTOH, I've read on the internet in different places where some people claim that ALL their cuttings have worked, using some wildly different methods. Who knows?
Some of my cuttings are two weeks old, the half leaves look good, and the conditions have been near perfect but for a few hot afternoons. I'm not complaining, Texas residents especially (ouch). I even left some whole leaves on four or five node cuttings. Those get the shadiest spots. So far, so good.
