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title: "Any advice to keep this pitcher plant healthy?"
description: "Any advice to keep this pitcher plant healthy?"
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# Any advice to keep this pitcher plant healthy?

_Posted by Plant guy on 2025-11-06_

Any advice to keep this pitcher plant healthy?

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## 4 comments

### Haley commented on 2025-11-08

I’m new to them as well. All my pitchers died and I was at a loss. I saw some advice on TikTok that said to put it in sphagnum moss because they naturally grow in swamps and like to stay moist. I did it and she is back to thriving. No new pitchers yet but her leaves look so much better and I’m getting new leaves!

### Plant guy commented on 2025-11-09

Thank you !

### Lynne commented on 2025-11-10

Humidity and light! Mine don’t get pitchers without the humidity especially

### FayteLumos commented on 2025-11-11

Some pitcher plants have to be planted in sphagnum moss; I have a napenthese in 1:1 sphagnum and perlite. Humidity is apparently the biggest reason that they don't sprout pitchers. I had to put mine in a tiny little fish tank for awhile, so I could give it a spritz and the air would stay humid around it. You can also use humidity trays, which are just trays with a layer of rocks (like large fish gravel size?) that you put water in to just under the tops of the stones. Then you put your plant on top of/over the tray. The rocks help the water evaporate and it creates a collumn of humid air for your plant. Good luck!

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