Post by ludox on Aug 7, 2023 19:09:34 GMT
Hello Community,
I have some experience with carnivorous plants, but I recently lost a plant I liked quite much and I wonder if anyone experienced anything similar in the past.
My plant was a Sarracenia in a glass pot and basically the whole pot was full of it. I'm not sure which kind exactly, but the upper half of the leaves was red.
It sat in a mix of Spaghnum moss and premixed carnivorous-plant-substrate and I watered it by filling the pot to about a finger width below the top of the glass.
It did fine for a few years, on a windowsill with lots of sun.
Unfortunately, I didn't find a similar good spot after moving, so in the new apartment it was wandering around for a bit until I left for vacation and kind of forgot it in a corner of the bathroom with too little light.
When I came back, the plant was very dead, completely grey and I assumed it didn't take the lack of water well.
But now, the Nepenthes hybrid that's hanging a meter from it got grayish leaves as well. I immediately cut all the grey leaves (of course without taking pictures, I'm sorry) and for now it didn't reappeared on other leaves. Also I turned on the artificial light again, I'd turned it off because I hoped there's enough light from the window, but now I want to make sure the plant has the best conditions. I started with 3h/day for now.
I did some websearch and the leaves looked a lot like a Silver Leaf infection, which is a fungus that kills plants. I didn't find anything about carnivorous plants being infected by it though. I also assume that that's what killed the Sarracenia, because it was completely grey instead of the usual brown of dried leaves.
So here are my questions:
- Did something similar happen to anyone here before?
- Is it indeed possible that it's a Silver Leaf infection?
- Is there any way to treat fungus infections if that's indeed what it is?
- should I go for even more light or could it stress the plant? it's half a meter below a 150W LED growlight, but the leaves are growing towards it, some being very close to the light. Those leaves still have a red 'tan' from when the light was running 8h/day during winter.
- The plant didn't grow any pitchers during the winter but now there are a bunch of small ones, so I assumed it was doing fine until I saw the silver leaves.
I have a terrarium as well, which is doing fine, so I will create some content from that in the future! Just so you can be sure that I'll contribute past "help me, my plant is dying"
I have some experience with carnivorous plants, but I recently lost a plant I liked quite much and I wonder if anyone experienced anything similar in the past.
My plant was a Sarracenia in a glass pot and basically the whole pot was full of it. I'm not sure which kind exactly, but the upper half of the leaves was red.
It sat in a mix of Spaghnum moss and premixed carnivorous-plant-substrate and I watered it by filling the pot to about a finger width below the top of the glass.
It did fine for a few years, on a windowsill with lots of sun.
Unfortunately, I didn't find a similar good spot after moving, so in the new apartment it was wandering around for a bit until I left for vacation and kind of forgot it in a corner of the bathroom with too little light.
When I came back, the plant was very dead, completely grey and I assumed it didn't take the lack of water well.
But now, the Nepenthes hybrid that's hanging a meter from it got grayish leaves as well. I immediately cut all the grey leaves (of course without taking pictures, I'm sorry) and for now it didn't reappeared on other leaves. Also I turned on the artificial light again, I'd turned it off because I hoped there's enough light from the window, but now I want to make sure the plant has the best conditions. I started with 3h/day for now.
I did some websearch and the leaves looked a lot like a Silver Leaf infection, which is a fungus that kills plants. I didn't find anything about carnivorous plants being infected by it though. I also assume that that's what killed the Sarracenia, because it was completely grey instead of the usual brown of dried leaves.
So here are my questions:
- Did something similar happen to anyone here before?
- Is it indeed possible that it's a Silver Leaf infection?
- Is there any way to treat fungus infections if that's indeed what it is?
- should I go for even more light or could it stress the plant? it's half a meter below a 150W LED growlight, but the leaves are growing towards it, some being very close to the light. Those leaves still have a red 'tan' from when the light was running 8h/day during winter.
- The plant didn't grow any pitchers during the winter but now there are a bunch of small ones, so I assumed it was doing fine until I saw the silver leaves.
I have a terrarium as well, which is doing fine, so I will create some content from that in the future! Just so you can be sure that I'll contribute past "help me, my plant is dying"
