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I am so glad I came across this video! I bought my first pitcher plant from a garden center today. It was sitting in water with VFT. So I went home and put it in with my VFT too. After seeing mistake #1, I immediately took it out of my homemade bog.
Just got my first 2 Nepenthes plants :) Got hybrids as i am a first time Nepenthes grower and cant wait to expand the collection. love the vids as you give the best advice and im sure they will thrive. lots of love from South Africa
Hey, the video's great! Very clear and informative. I've been growing VFTs, droseras and sarracenias for a while now, but just got my first nepenthes today. Glad to have people like you spreading the word on how to take care of them correctly :) Thanks man, have a good one!
I like your presentation! It is very informative and well structured; your tone also helps to deliver the concepts. I just bought my first Nepenthes and Fly traps to grow in the Blue ridge mountains. A bit of a stretch in terms of the plants habitat, I know, but it is a decent climate. Anyway, thank you for all the help and God Bless you.
I found recently my nepenthes was making lots of leaves and tendrils but not pitchering, so I got another cool mist humidifier and it's starting to pitcher again and made a big leaf jump!
Hey Dominic, thank you for ‘schooling’ me in the fine art of raising Nepenthes , I had to stop the video and go empty the water out of the saucers of the three I just purchased… the sales lady at the nursery gave me 80% off because they were in such poor shape (I suspect they had been sitting in water) anyway I am learning thanks to people like you, take care my friend, Craig in Baton Rouge…
My Nepenthes are potted in Peat,Perlite and Quartz sand and they doing really good. My Gardener that I trust puts some Barks between it in his new Recipe but when I have to give my Nepenthes a new bigger Pot i will try just Dead Sphagnum Moos with Perlite like you do. What I can say is all of my Nepenthes have produced Pitchers in this Summer since I got them.
NOW ALSO VERY IMPORTANT....In the Gulf states of the USA, the temperature outside in the winter is too cold. I bring my Nepenthes indoors for the winter.....it survives until it is warm enough to go back outside when spring time comes, and around sixty degrees is good for mine to go back outside...temperatures of forty degrees during the winter nearly killed mine! Bringing them indoors the humidity is low and they will stop growing, but the warmth will keep them from dying. ( I don't own a climate controlled greenhouse o.k.!) Find out by research first, and then trial and error last!
Living in Southern Ontario Canada, the humidity in our house is at 30%, my one plant is 12” tall with one good pitcher and the other one not so good, but it has seven new leaves that might pop pitchers in the summer. I have 6” plant with four new leaves and one good pitcher and 4” plant with eight new leaves and no pitchers. Two summers ago I had them on the south side of e house and they’re getting burned leaves; so thank you on answering some questions that nobody else could answer like the indirect sun light.
I bought a pitcher plant about 2 years ago, nice healthy plant with lots of -what I now know are - small pitchers, 2 - 3 inches long. I was told to put rainwater into the pitchers. It was hung in a very bright place but with minimal direct sunshine. I am in Ireland so we get lots of dull days, and the winter is several months of gloom, it is, however, pretty damp/humid. Initially I watered it about 2 or 3 times a week, I did not put water in the pitchers and have not fed it. The original pitchers all shrivelled at the top so I increased the watering to every day, and also sprayed it, also with rainwater. It is very happy, has more than doubled in size and the large number of new pitchers are double the size of the original ones. All look very healthy. I am thinking it does now need repotting as roots are peeping out from the bottom of the pot.
I sit all my nepenthes outdoors on my deck in summer (live in mountains of Virginia where it's quite humid), my nepenthes flourish from May through September and set lots of pitchers. I move them indoors in late Sept. to large aquariums with gro-lights.... they winter well but growth slows tremendously... overall I feel success with these plants...just wish I could afford a greenhouse like yours :)
You sound like you got it! I wonder why they slow so much. Usually they explode under lights indoors. Is the temps and humidity as good? Maybe get an indoor greenhouse 😜 grow tents are awesome too! Dom
i noticed my nepenthe was not growing right, ive had it for 2 months or so and the pitchers were withering a bit, i realised from this video that ive had the wrong humidity and potting! I really appreciate the advice given here, i could not find info anywhere else
Really nice tuto :) I would not recommend the terrarium as if there is no air flow, mold can happen. A small computer fan with a dimmer switch can fix that.
I think the key there is not to put a top on it. He has a video about terrariums for small plants and he doesn't put a top on it. Theres just water on the bottom, and the plants are elevated on bases.
Id say one of the most common mistake with growing neps (what i have done and still have done, im getting better at not doing it tho) is actually playing around with them too much, as in taking them off the shelf they are on, especially Touching deveoping pitchers, i myslef have accidentally caused a few pitchers to pop prematurely
As Indonesian, point No #1 actually it's OK to put their roots keep in a water, we usually use pot placements, to keep the soil moist or wet and we using rain water with TDS meter less than 50 or you can use distilled water or from air condition water dew... BUT the problem is.. in your region the water temperature sometimes is too cold. Keep the water temp among 20C-30C degrees (68F - 86F) like in the tropical forest.
Excellent advice! Great instructional! #6. Proper Temperatures/Day-Night swings. It can make or break your Nepenthes! Know what your specific plant needs.
This is the best video to give you the low down on how to look after these extraordinary plants. Will take all your advice on these plants as i have just purchased one. Thank you!
I have 3 in a 10 gallon aquarium my RE0002 is almost a year old now throw in out 8 in leaves. My (galndulifera x Veitchi) x LVB x VMN is a few months behind her and still alot smaller. I also have a ventricosa that I rescued from a tiny plastic box in a hardware store that one is going to out grow my terrarium soon it's already getting large pitchers. Love my Red Leaf pitchers, I keep springtails and isopods to help keep the terrarium clean they also end up as snacks now and then.
Just bought one for my high school environmental science classroom. Kids are going to love it! Thanks for helping me figure out how to take care of my new friend. I have orchid soil, what kind of pot?
Hi, nice video.. Anyway u mention before that u ever saw unhealthy nepenthes on oversived pot with quite soggy sphagnum moss, does it mean that nepenthes should never be put on oversize pot or maybe if I do, the watering should be done on extra caution?
Cheers Cobber great vid! I love the one's I have, hard to grow in this part of the world, its sOOOoooo dry in the air here. All the best from Western Australia Shamesville!!
Thank you, my nepenthes took major damage I think from taking them to direct sun contact and still kind of cold outside. They turned orange almost. What humidifier would you Recommend?
On the topic of humidity. Mine was growing so well when I was living in a place that had a sky window in a bathroom. There were 3 people who were showering in this bathroom a day so it had great humidity and light, it was thriving. I moved and now I'm struggling with it!
I have several Nepenthes successfully growing indoors, on a window sill. Since they are effectively 'houseplants', point 5 is the hardest to achieve (60% plus humidity in a living space is not easy to acheive) So apart from really hot, humid summer days (not that many of those here in the UK), the humidity ranges from around 30% to mid 50% during the year. Thankfully though, the several species I have all are producing pitchers because, as you describe, the other main key to getting them to pitcher, is high light levels. The windows where they are currently growing face west, so plenty of light there from early afternoon onwards (Except winter time) Disadvantage of growing them indors on a window sill. Once they start vining, so I'm forced to cut them back, which means I won't be getting any of the different form upper pitchers. Plus they begin to 'outgrow' the sill space as they form more sideshoots as well.
I've had my nepenthes for years, and it was horribly neglected yet hanging on. It was in potting soil, rarely watered, and has only grown pitcher once for me. Recently I've repotted it in a sphagnum moss/perlite mix with a grow light. It's over a foot tall with really close leaves but is obviously not happy. Hopefully this baby turns around.
i grow mine indoors and i find if i just place the tip of the tendril( that has an embryonic pitcher on it) in the sphagnum moss that the plant is already growing in then the pitchers develop fine even in relatively low humidity.
Mine is growing pitchers without issue nowadays, but it goes through phases where some of its leaves brown and yellow and then I cut those off and it rebounces. And then after a while it we have to do tje dance again. It gets indirect sunlight plus a grow light but I think it would prefer more light
ROFL who is giving their plant cheeseburgers rofl what? Lmao thanks for sharing, I needed this , this is my first plant ever and this was soooooo helpful
I put my small nepenthe in a makeshift terrarium for humidity, it is super hot and humid in it, and it is pitchering like there is no tomorrow, I put them on a bright windowsill with lots of light
Just found your channel, the Highland tour -omg -luscious nepenthes I never saw before. Ooh the black ones, the striped ones with the green ruffles down the pitcher, fat ones, skinny ones... I spent at least over $1,000 in my head ( where all my money is 😂) question before I get one: does it matter if it is a high land or a low land one if I will be growing it in an east window? Im thinking highland might be better. Thanks for sharing your passion!!! 🌱🤗👍🏻 oh I’ve had Peter D’Amato’s book “The Savage Garden” for ages , playing around w sarracenias but twice had no luck w neps, now I know why! 🤦🏻♀️
Thank you for your info: my plant is very healthy but when the pitchers start growing they immediately turn brown and don’t grow: the leaves continue to grow: I have the plant in the bathroom; so everyday it gets humidity. Please give me your suggestions
Thank you! Great video. Que: how should I repot a large Pitcher plant? It has two stems with the longest branch about 30-inches. I’ll se if I can post a photo.
Love your videos, clear and concise! I have one that seems to be doing well but the bottom 5 inches or so at the base of the plant is brown and woody. However, the leaves are nice and there are pitchers. Should I worry about this or is it normal. There are two basal plants coming at the base so I would think it must be happy? All of the growth is hanging - not upright like yours.
Overall good video! I have to give you some props for “Weird human food that’s not even good for us” very true and I admire how you left that in there despite how it may offend some people’s sensibilities. Anyway, If I may share a few of my observations being a devoted grower for the last 12 years who’s put hundreds and maybe even thousands of hours into researching nepenthes. I’m from southwestern PA and grow my plants indoors, though some years I’ve been known to toss my nepenthes outside for a breather between Mother’s Day to Halloween. In my experience, the single greatest important factor except bright, direct light (for a number of hours not all-day direct light) is what’s going on with the root zone. I don’t fully agree with this characterization of these plants as epiphytes as I often hear. Keeping them well pot-bound and encouraging root growth with fertilizer (I know this is controversial but it shouldn’t be) and even rooting hormone is the key to proper growth. Specific temperature ranges and even humidity to some extent is overplayed in my view. I can’t tell you how many plants I’ve spent hard earned money on over the years show up to my door looking anemic with no root mass and even ones that the previous owner told me had been “growing” for over a decade but was still smaller than a deck of cards. I’ve turned these plants around once I could start disinfecting, expanding, and fertilizing the root mass. They turn deep, dark green and each leaf is larger than the last as the root ball expands proportionally. Every single time regardless of species. If I do nothing, the plants stay as they arrived either to infinity or till it eventually dies, whichever comes first. I can say with certainty these plants aren’t anything like air plants… they are like most plants that need good root systems. It’s just their systems are different, their roots are extremely fine and delicate… it’s much easier to damage them by over-potting or over-watering and much harder to keep them free of disease and much harder to drive nutrients deep into their tissues.
I should have added I use tap water most of the time and I repot every 12 months to keep things fresh. Very important. I also like time release pellets for fertilizer.
Just a question, is there any help in standard leds at all? I got some I can adjust the colour temperature. And can't really afford real growth lights at the moment 😜
Most nepenthes actually grow terrestrial in normal soil, peat or ultramafic soil in their habitat. Thats actually really dense soil. You probably never tried nepenthes in soil for long. I know a lot of people that only using pure peat for their nepenthes and they grow perfectly fine. The issue might be more in an overwatering all the time and not letting the substrate dry up every now and than. Remember in Souteastasia you got rainy and dry seasons. If the plant only occurs as an epiphyte a sphagnum mix will be a better alternative. Most important is enough light. With enough light you can even grow hamata or jacqulineae on your windowsil ;)
Yes, I saw them in the wild, it’s entirely different world! Peat moss can work well for many growers. I would never ever suggest using regular garden soil. Im sure Exotica would be using it if it was magical! Ha for us, sphagnum and coconut mixes are proving to be best. Any Nepenthes can grow on a windowsill depending on where you’re located. Hamata ain’t growing on this windowsill! Ha
@@redleafexotics4722 yea, my nepenthes all grow in spaghnum+perlite mix tho even though I live in their native area. Maybe I'll try growing them in my yard with a cheap nep like gracilis or something.
I live in south east Asia and I do agree that most of them here grows in normal soil just fine. I had bought a ventrata grown in normal soil mix with peat and it was doing just fine. It's currently wet season here so they will enjoy rain showers while also collecting rainwater for them and for my calatheas.
I love your greenhouse!!! If you look at the far left hanging Nepenthes in this video it has orange spots on its leaves. So does mine, that is exactly why I came here to find out what causes that to happen? It is about 7 years old, I am in SW Florida, the temperature is perfect, the humidity, good drainage, no fertilizer just rainwater, It gets dapple morning sun, shade the rest of the day. Yours is in a greenhouse, no dappled sun, yet still the same spots? I am at a loss. I hope you can help....thank you for your time.
My two nephentes: - Bought at a supermarket like 6 years ago - Have been sitting in soil for all that time - Spent the first 5 years in a dark bathroom, and barely being watered - Survived moving in a tempered climate in February - Potted up last year (in cactus soil) - Grew more - Was moved into shade for a solid 3 months - Moved to a bright spot - Misted daily in summer and gave me nice lil’ pitchers Don’t ever call my babies fragile again! 😤😤 Thnx for the tips, though! Coming into spring, I’ll repot them into something more suitable! I promise!
Good day i am a newbie in terms for caring for nepenthes, do i need to put water inside the pitchers, or it will naturally produce water by it self? Thanks for such informative blog... I have troncata and ventricosa here in the Philippines
So I mist my nepenthes twice a day with distilled water. Does it need more than that? It's been a very hot summer here in the north of the UK. My Nepenthes (his name is Goldblum, because I'm weird) lives on the kitchen window sill getting bright, indirect light. I use the grow light on heavy over cast days (e.g. when it's really dull and cloudy when we've had rain over the past few months) for about an hour. This is my first ever attempt to keep a house plant going.
Hi! Your nepenthes are gorgeous!!! I live in western Oregon and I am wondering if it would be okay to just grab some of our moss from the forest floor or off a branch for them... I'm hearing that purchased sphagnum comes from over-harvesting of peat bogs so....also we produce loads of fluffy wood chips out of our woodworking machinery - mostly it's alder, and I wonder if this material itself would be a good "soil" for them. Many thanks in advance! I have one in the kitchen and it makes pitchers but I think it needs re-potting.
Dom!! I need help. Lol. So my issue is that my Nepenthes leaves are turning red due to too much light but I cant lessen the light intensity anymore than it already is. Will my Nepenthes continue to grow despite the leaves being red or is this the beginning of my plant dying out?
Turns out I was doing the potting soil wrong all along. When I first got them I thought they were bog plants so they were sitting in 3-4 cm of standing water potted in peat. The Nepenthes Bloody Mary did fine though.
@@redleafexotics4722 Now that explains it. Too bad you don't ship to Switzerland, your collection of nepenthes is absolutely fantastic. Or maybe it's a good thing I can't turn my apartment into a jungle, who knows.
Question I have been feeding my lil guys ants and wasp by catching them and dropping them in is it okay to feed them bugs that have venom like wasp will it poison them
I got a nepenthes plant from online nursery and waited for 2 days for repotting...the pitchers turned black n look like burnt and the plant is also burning...how can I save it?
So technically, if I put my carnivorous plants in a terrarium (not for animals but for them only) with all the stuff they need (stones at the bottom, cole, terrarium soil with sphagnum moss in it and put it under LED light it will survive, right? Because it’s basically a living ecosystem if I put moss in there too and there is enough humidity, and basically I also don’t need to water it a lot because the soil is wet enough
Do nepenthes grow slower in winter? I got a nepenthes like 2 weeks ago but it dosen't even look like it's growing. It is a baby Deroose Alata. And I am doing everything right.
Great video I have fly traps and sundews! I'm getting my first nepenthes, I'm very nervous. I use long fiber sphagnum moss for all my carnivorous plants. Any advice?
They can, but it doesn’t have to be that fancy and peat is more for the swamp carnivores. Nepenthes really seem to prefer sphagnum and perlite or coconut coir based mediums. Thanks!
@@redleafexotics4722 Thanks so much for replying! I just bought carnivorous plant soil like I listed above AND spaghnum moss! I bought both venus flytraps and pitcher plant nepenthes today. Super excited!!
I'm a bit late 😅 but I plan on getting one of these in a hardware store. I'm in lithuania, which isn't very.. modern I guess, so I'm not sure if they will have all the soils you listed. Which suitable soil for the pitcher plant is the most common and easily accessible?
