manders Posted December 24, 2016 Report Share Posted December 24, 2016 (edited) For those of you not on facebook, please be aware. There seems to be evidence that many nepenthes collections are infested with a fungus from the Cryphonectriaceae family which can kill many Nepenthes, it seems to strike hardest when the neps are dormant over winter and apparently lowland neps kept actively growing all year seem to be less at risk. It is spread easily by spores. if you are not allready infected, it might be worth avoiding swapping cuttings with other growers and sticking to buying tc plants. Edited December 24, 2016 by manders 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fryderyk Posted December 24, 2016 Report Share Posted December 24, 2016 How does an infected nepenthes look like? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manders Posted December 24, 2016 Author Report Share Posted December 24, 2016 Trying to find out more info, but lumpy leaves, rotted stems and small orange lumps (fruiting bodies). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corky Posted December 24, 2016 Report Share Posted December 24, 2016 hi manders ,any chance of a link to the fb page Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manders Posted December 24, 2016 Author Report Share Posted December 24, 2016 Corky, theres some discussion in the Highland Nepenthes Group, look for Bill Sherrens recent posts. Seems its been around for a while and rumour has it some big nurseries are infected. Thats basically all i know based on what ive recently read on fb. Until the truth of it is known and more widespread i would caution too much swapping of plants. Hopefully someone with more knowledge will post here and give us some better information. To be honest i'm somewhat shocked that it seems to have heen a well kept 'secret' for quite a while. It's the sort of thing we should all be informed about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corky Posted December 24, 2016 Report Share Posted December 24, 2016 thanks, and i too am surprised no one has mentioned it on here , Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Anderson Posted December 26, 2016 Report Share Posted December 26, 2016 That's a bit of a worry! Thanks for highlighting this as I was totally unaware about it. Many thanksMark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goreneko Posted January 1, 2017 Report Share Posted January 1, 2017 This post makes me afraid that I caught this fungus. Is it any similar to this? https://www.facebook.com/groups/planetcarninivorous/permalink/1373450532673510/ I posted my problem in that facebook post but no mention to fungus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fryderyk Posted January 1, 2017 Report Share Posted January 1, 2017 Did you get it recently? It does that to my plants when I don't take my time to make them aclimatize properly in shadowed positions Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goreneko Posted January 1, 2017 Report Share Posted January 1, 2017 It was recently indeed, but the rest of Nepenthes has been correctly acclimated. The thing is that these black dots make me think of fungus more than lack of humidity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fryderyk Posted January 1, 2017 Report Share Posted January 1, 2017 One of mine died like this after I had just bought it, I think it is simply too much light too soon (in combination with possibly lack of proper humidity) , it may recover though, it will just take time (at least a month looking at the picture but could be even three or not recover at all, unfortunately) I wouldn't worry about infestation 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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