Why is my pitcher plant dying?

Okay, so I got us this pitcher plant in Jan.  Transplanting it to a better pot went great, inspite of the sensative pitcher cups which catch the bugs.  I read that I needed to water it from below so I have always done so.  This type can live in zone 8 so I wanted to teach it to live outside in its pot under the balcony roof, but right before it was time to harden it it started dying, like the pitcher cups started drying out and getting crackly.  So I did my hardening, bringing it in overnight for a week and having it outside during those days.  That went fine, but its still the same, 2 of the pitcher cups are doing fine, but the other four are shriveled and dried out.  I snipped the tops of them, maybe this was a mistake, this is my first time having a carniverous plant of any kind so its all new to me.

How do I get those pitcher cups to become green and alive again?  Do I cut them off and just let the plant grow new ones?  I think I'm giving it enough water, though for a while it would drink it so quickly and then I'd not give it anymore for a day or so, maybe I didn't give it enough and so now it doesn't matter that I give it more?

I have a select few carnivorous plants that I am keeping indoors and they are divas.

I'm not sure of a specific-to-you answer, but I will pass on some of my observations in case they might be of value?

Pitcher plants REALLY want light. Indoors, I have to put my grow lights pretty close to the plant to allow it to 'flourish'. Make sure it is getting some rays.

Pitcher plants are finicky with their water. I only use distilled but rainwater would be amazing. They don't want mineral content in their water is what I've read.

My pitcher plant was pretty lousy looking for a few months and then it started to develop new pitchers. I personally don't prune my old ones, but that isn't based in any research.

Maybe a picture would help with the diagnosis.

I think I figured out the problem, so I keep it outside, as apparently it can be okay in my zone unless it gets too cold/wintertime.  Anyways we had a good rain and the humidity in the air changed and got more so, and just like that the pitchers are happy again, its like the humidity livened them back up to what they used to be.  So even though I keep it under the roof and water it myself instead of rain hitting the pitchers, it absorbed the humidity in the air and presto!  It looks like they like rain water most, so as per the above suggestion I'll put its undertray where I give it water out in the rain next time to collect rainwater for it to suck up.