Dying lepanthes in terrarium? slow decline.

[vraev]

Hey guys,

I have been trying to grow lepanthes for many years. While I had a limited amount of success in the past, 2 y ago, I changed my setup and since then, haven't had any good success yet with any species.

The plants grow ok for the first few months...then they keep flowering profusely until they die. I just can't figure out what is happening. It can be mounted plants, or it can be potted plants.



note the marks under the leaves. Plant flowers profusely...but fails to grow new leaves from the pot.



Kiki from the L. maxonii above. Didn't know what to do..placed it in this pot as u can see...hovering over the media. I hope i can keep it alive.



L. vellicata .. grew very well for the 1st year. Then went downhill...now down to one good leaf.



Multiple lepanthes...the mounted one u can see creeping... L. caprimugulus, L. calodycton. Grew very well again for a while... 8 months or so and then are going downhill again. Now more new leaf growth.



L. tsubotae... again flowers..but clearly dying



DOn't remember which one this is...again..flowers..but not too much new leaf growth.



almost dead L. telipogoniflora and L. caprimulgus



Another L. telipogoniflora on a slow decline. The L. tentaculata next to it is doing ok.



Any suggestions? Please help. There is one fan as u can see. But.. a mistking system coming on 8 times during the day once every 2h. I try to avoid water on leaves at night. Don't know what else to do. For some reason...they just don't seem to do well in long term.

thanks

V

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