SamInLondon Posted July 28, 2008 Report Share Posted July 28, 2008 I've just come back after the hot weekend to find that several of the pitcher buds on my N. ventricosa x inermis vine have just disappeared - I presume dropped off . I have it on a SSEf-facing windowsill that gets sun until about 2 pm. Does this sounds like a reaction to too much heat, too much sunlight or both? The plants seems healthy enough otherwise, and the other neps nearby seem OK. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wasted Posted July 28, 2008 Report Share Posted July 28, 2008 Afternoon.. Gone? Really gone? from the tendril? not just withered? Sounds like a pest to me.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamInLondon Posted July 28, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 28, 2008 Gone?Really gone? from the tendril? not just withered? No, I mean literally gone from the tendril. It's as if someone came along and pinched them off. I can't see any signs of infestation - apart, that is, from the little silver insects that seem to like to the moss. I haven't seen them on the plant itself, and when I posted a few months ago to ask if they were bad news no one threw their hands up in horror. Perhaps I should repot? Hmmmm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wasted Posted July 28, 2008 Report Share Posted July 28, 2008 Sounds like slug damage (unless my young niece lives near you and broke in with scissors) any slug trails? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wasted Posted July 28, 2008 Report Share Posted July 28, 2008 Sounds like slug damage (unless my young niece lives near you and broke in with scissors) any slug trails? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamInLondon Posted July 28, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 28, 2008 No slug trails, no nieces I should add that it's on the windowsill in the office, and it hasn't pitchered since spring. We don't have air-con, but perhaps the air's just too dry? I have noticed that in the past some tendrils went a sort of grey colour and aborted. I'm mystified, especially since it's supposed to be an easy hybrid. Two other ventricosa hybrids nearby are putting out pitchers like there's no tomorrow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wasted Posted July 28, 2008 Report Share Posted July 28, 2008 Hmmm odd, never had a tendril vanish like that, must be a logical explanation.. Nothing on the floor I assume? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wasted Posted July 28, 2008 Report Share Posted July 28, 2008 Hmmm odd, never had a tendril vanish like that, must be a logical explanation.. Nothing on the floor I assume? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamInLondon Posted July 28, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 28, 2008 It's just the buds that have fallen off. The tendrils made hooks, but the buds themselves just aren't there. I couldn't see anything lying around. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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