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Quite possibly - although there are two explanations I can think of. Each trap has some hairs on the inside (typically three on each side of the trap, but it does vary). A single touch to a hair is insufficient - there have to be two touches within about 20 seconds. The second touch can be to the same hair or a different hair. This behavior is interpreted ...

Of course it is difficult to know for sure, but it sounds like your general care is "the right type of thing". Yes only use distilled water. Don't use "any old bottled water", mineral water, well water, or tap water. Rain water is generally considered acceptable but you might to avoid it if you have a lot of pollution in your area. Pollution generally ...

It sounds like humidity is the problem. If I understand correctly, you are growing it in a pot in a window sill? In non-tropical climates, I have only ever seen Nepenthes growing in tropical greenhouses (I find they are common plants in public tropical greenhouses in both the US and UK). In the days when I grew CPs myself, I never tried Nepenthes because ...

My experience is limited to Venus flytrap plants in Scotland, but I found that through the winter the plants growth slowed right down along with the lack of insects. There were a few bugs that we fed to the plants, but only around one a month, and the plants just picked up their activity in the spring as the insects started to increase in numbers.

It is clearly an older trap that has gone into an inactive state purely for photosynthesis. It is easy to tell from the outward bend of the sides of the trap and the hairs pointing outward. The traps with the hairs pointed inward and the inward curve are active. They open like this when old, so the trap has more exposure to light instead of blocking the ...

Never let a nepenthes sit in water it will kill the plant I use a small terrarium for my nepenthes with a sphagnum moss and foam mix although many other pourous draining soils with lots of air spaces works great. This soil type has helped has kept my ventricosa x Mira hybrid alive for years and if yours is a highland species it needs a nightly tempurature ...

First of all, you have a nice Nepenthes! Its a mythic plant :) It looks like a Nepenthes ventrata, or a hybrid. It's not a Nepenthes ampullaria for sure. Your plant needs rain or demineralized water Water the plant when the surface of the soil is a LITTLE BIT dry. Your plant needs relative humidity of 70% or more. Your plant needs a 4-5°C temperature ...

I got some advice from a colleague, that says he kept one alive for 4 years. He said: It needs more than just get "watered"; It needs to "stand in water". He watered his everyday. He tried to use mostly distilled water, as his tap water contained too much lime, which eventually would clog the roots. (I will not waste my money on buying distilled water ...

You can grow carnivorous plants (CPs) without any bugs. Think of the bugs as a dietary supplement. If you're growing local plants, then indoor climates might still pose problems. I don't know your outside climate or if you have a/c, but carnivorous plants generally like moist bog ground. That may require frequent watering in a dry indoor climate. Although ...

You don't have to feed carnivorous plants at all and for the winter they will just slow growth and eat less but for good health you will need to decrease the temp of the plants if it is a flytrap or pitcher plant but tropical sundews don't need any change nor do nepenthes aka tropical pitcher plants or the kings at carnivorous plants. Nepenthes can live ...

I love the idea of carnivorous plants for indoor pest control... all of the temperate carnivorous plants that I am aware of require a winter dormancy... they will probably survive for a couple of years without this dormancy, but they wont really thrive, sarracenia leaves can last for 2-3 years; so probably that long at least before it withers away. during ...