Question

Nepenthes distillatori   Allexperts,

I got this Nepenthes distillatoria from you a little while back some time in December.  It has no pitchers.  I usually associated a nepenthes without any pitchers as being  in some distress, especially if I am giving the plant enough: water, sunlight, and soil.  I just wondering is this plant okay?  I open to some general care of this plant.  Can this plant adapted to household conditions? I have a picture attached to the email. Thank you for your time.

Grow information:
Water= distilled
Lights= 40 watts tubes CFl on 12 hour timer.
obtained from= Sarracenia Northwest.
temperatures= 68-70
Humidity natural house humidity= 20% ( guess)

Answer
Hi Weylin,

Thanks for the photo.  Your plant looks fine, but when I looked at your growing conditions, I saw the problem quickly.  N. distillatoria is a lowlander, and is used to hot, humid conditions.  They come from Sri Lanka and are used to very warm weather year-round.  They are very similar to N. bicalcurata in this respect.  This is one plant that I would recommend a terrarium for to get it's temperature and humidity up.  It's daytime temperatures should be in the 80's and no lower than 70 at night.

Good Growing!

Jeff Dallas
Sarracenia Northwest
http://www.cobraplant.com