A 5-year Nepenthes grower sees first flower stalk. Excited but has no opposite-sex plant for pollination. Asks: leave it, cut after sexing, or remove now?
Jeff Dallas: Cut it off. Flowers are unattractive, smell chemical/bleach-like. Blooming slows vegetative growth; removal keeps plant growing.
Nepenthes are dioecious (separate sexes). Flowers are functionally useless without a mate. Energy diversion to flowering reduces pitcher production. Commercial growers routinely remove spikes.
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