It's interesting to have the perspective of a soil specialist for once. :) There are still some things to consider: - Feeding is not required but helps growth but need to be done in moderation. - Filling the pitcher with water is useful when receiving on a new plant to help prevent the pitchers from drying out (which probably emptied during transport). and after that, indeed it is no longer useful for new pitchers. - 50% humidity is enough for the majority of "intermediate species" hybrids. ;) - For the highland species, it's more complicated than that: it's not that they can stand the cold but rather than they NEED it at night (if you want them to last long). And we are talking here of 15 degrees Celsius or less. But I’m also in Canada and yes, it’s convenient for windowsill ;)
I do agree with filling in a little water into the pitchers to prevent them from drying out completely. I sometimes fill it a tiny bit with really diluted seaweed extract (once a month) other than feeding it with insects, and it helps with bloom in growth.
I just purchased one today. It was surprisingly large. Huge leaves. But the main stem where all the shoots come off of.. its leaning pretty hard over. Should I just leave it be. Or maybe replant and reposition? It wasn't in the best shape. The leaves are super fragile and a bit crispy (but green) I had to cut off quite a few not good leaves and all but 1 pitcher were crispy shriveled
Oh I just got to the part about you talking about staking it! So I could take it out of the hanging basket it came in and kinda correct the leaning? You prefer them potted and staked? Mines a touch bigger than yours in the hanging basket
Your glasses are fine Ashley, do you , be comfy, Lovin’ the sciency bits , you make it all so understandable...ah now I get it ! So happy I found your channel, thanks Jules.
I know I’m like 4 months late but I’m in hardiness zone 7a (in the US) and I bought my first nepenthes recently. I’m madly in love with all my houseplants and taking care of them makes my day. Also, the ring light doesn’t bug me. Thanks for making this video
The Pitcher Plant is the official plant of Newfoundland. When I was there last year I walked through Salmonair Park and I saw hundreds of them. The pitchers on them were massive. It’s such a beautiful plant but way out of my league when it comes to indoor plants. Great video.
What?! Are you actually serious! Omg I’m coming to visit now. You should take a video and send it to me if your on Instagram I’d love to see them! instagram.com/p/CHBEVsBAEcJ/?igshid=8x0jt77us71p
3 года назад
Isn’t it the provincial flower? Anyway, what you saw was certainly another type of pitcher plant, in the genus Sarracenia (S. purpurea is the only pitcher plant growing natively in Canada).
ok i have learned more in 10 min of watching your video than i have in 3 months of googling info on these dang things. you def earned a subscribe from me! looking forward to looking through all your other videos. keep up the great work and THANK YOU!
im about half way through the video and ive learned 3X as much about this plant then 10 youtube videos. i will absolutely be recommending your videos to my friends
So I've been binging your videos for like three days (and I'm learning so much!! You've probably just rescued a few of my non-carnivorous plants from nutrient deficiencies and made me a lot more chill about fungus and algae, hooray) and it's so cool to see that you have some Nepenthes too! I keep a few indoors in zone 4 myself and they definitely struggle in the winter sometimes. Hopefully the new humidifier helps a bit. I've definitely noticed that light is more important than humidity when it comes to pitchering, and in the summer the sturdier hybrids do great in a south-facing window with 30% humidity...but it's been getting into the low teens recently and I haven't had a new pitcher in ages. Also, fun plant anatomy fact that blew my mind when I learned it: the "leaf" is technically just a really flat, wide petiole. The pitcher is the whole leaf blade! Same with Venus flytraps.
I watched a lot of Nepenthes videos looking for one answer to my question! Bingo! You won! Thank you! I subbed. Looking forward to learning lots from you.😃👍
Aloha, Informative. Good tips. Nepenthes (lowland to intermediate species) do well here in Hawaii. They are all grown outside under shade cloth and subject to the ambient high humidity and light. Note: Many Nepenthes pitchers do naturally fill with water especially ones that have open lids like N. ampullaria. Mahalo
From Charlotte, NC Looking to go from casual plant person to the next level of plant care. This usually involves the steps of repotting , propagating and paying attention to soil and feeding. I have a house full of plants that are alive, which confirmed my step up from novice, but now I want them to survive winters and thrive in general.
@@GardeningInCanada yep. I just got my Nepenthes and we are starting to hit warmer, humid weather here in NC, so they will likely have fun the next few months. I have a grow light but didn’t use much this past winter on Venus flytraps. Wasn’t sure if I should or if they are suppose to go into dormancy. All traps fell off but I still have some green leaves. I’m guessing they will start growing again soon.
Literally just bought a pitcher plant. So feeling like i am above my skill level and this poor babies life is in danger with me...lol. she is in a 2" pot and needs to be repottted. Do i undertand correctly that i should pot in sphagnum moss, some perlite? Water with distilled water? Please advise. This has been the most educational video. Thank you
I got into carnivorous plants about 5 months ago and along with my vfts and sundews i bought 4 picher plants and one died but i useto freak out bicouse the growth of new plants would normally die off untill i realized the new growth done really well
Things you can be flexible on, which may vary with species. Humidity, I'm growing several highland hybrids on a west facing windowsill in my home. The humidity in the room averages in the low to mid 40%. Rarely gets higher, except on really hot, humid days (and there are not many of those here in the UK). All of them are producing pitchers quite well, even at these low levels of humidity. Currently the humidity in my room is 31%. Nepenthes are doing fine nonetheless. High light levels seem to be far more important at getting pitchers to form than humidity, at least for highland/highlan hybrids. The windowsill in question gets full sun from around mid afternoon onwards in the summer months. Watering, all mine have had no issue to date with straight tap water, not filtered, not distilled, not reverse osmosis. Just plain old East Sussex tap water. Which, to boot, is very hard water (all the chalk in the South Downs here!) However, that hard water does shorten the usable life of the moss they are planted in. So it's certainly a good idea to refresh the potting medium a little more often than would be with a softer tap water (the kind you get up in North Wales for example)
This was very informative, thank you. I hot mine from a local greenery. Its has dark spots on the leaves, what does that mean. Also I repotted it and wondered why it barely had roots. I thought i got a bad one lol. Thanks again.
We are in zone 4a in Northern New York State, foothills of the northern Adirondack Mountains. I'm interested in veggie and herb gardening. We also like wild flowers, roses, perennials in general. Our coldest part of our winters can range from -2- to -35 degrees F. Our gardens start the last weekend of May/first weekend of June to about the middle of September...sometimes to the end. We can be in Spencerville, Ontario in about an hour
Excellent video. Thank you for talking about the root system. I thought they needed soil, I didn't know they could grow in sphagnum moss. That was an interesting surprise. The same with humidity, you said 60% and I almost fell off my chair. I didn't realize it needed to be that high. This was very helpful, thank you for sharing (and for the images too, great help).
I have one growing and it’s flourishing inside my house under LED lights. It has new pitchers and is looking good. I live in Washington state north of Vancouver in Yacolt near the volcano Mt. St. Helens. I have Venus flytrap seeds I’m going to grow next.
Thank you for telling me that overwatering is not possible!! I have been researching self watering wick system for nepenthes in sphagnum moss but not a lot of info on the internet. Your informative video gives me confident to try wick system!!
Interesting video, however Nepenthes are definitely -NOT- bog plants. Venus Flytraps, Sarracenia and many Drosera are, but Nepenthes grow in the tropical rainforest, often under the canopy and amongst trees or shrubs. There are no tree or shrubs in a bog. Many species grow as epiphyte, so yes they are a bit like orchids. It would be great to correct this in a future video, as many hobbyist kill their Nepenthes growing them as bog plants.
I find more people tend to kill them from under watering in my area
3 года назад
@@GardeningInCanada - My assumption about how people kill them might be wrong (it’s just based on what people post on forums and FB groups), however the type of environment they grow in are very rarely bogs. I believe it can happen (I read that about N. bicalcarata, an ultra-lowland species), but it probably represent
The only place I've been able to see impressive specimens of living pitcher plants is in Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, PA. They're in the top three of the most awesome plants I've ever laid eyes on. I couldn't stop staring at them. I think I've asked you this before: have you ever been to Longwood Gardens? It's a great family trip (I went with my fiancé a few times before he passed away). It's ever-evolving; massive seasonal changes in plantings and decorations for holidays. You really must go at least 3 times. Research it well. Consider the best times for you to visit. You really must spend at least 3 days. Have those plans ready for when things are much less crazy here. I so wish I could finance all 3, or 4, trips for you and your whole family, and put you up at the best hotel in the area, and the best restaurants in the area. Longwood Gardens has both a cafeteria, and a fine dining restaurant on the premises. I know there has been a lot of expansion there. My broken heart hasn't let me return since Dec 2005. I'm sure that it is even more awesome than it used to be. If you can only go once, pick your very favorite season or holiday. Their Christmas display is legendary. Ok, I'm gushing about it. Back to the video. Again.
you could! but keep in mind your would need the specific species strains for the mycorrhizae and i am not confident anyone has studied or isolated those to date.
Very cool video. I had no idea that we could grow them ourselves if we could keep the conditions right. I thought they'd only be in specialty commercial gardens, like at Longwood. That sphagnum moss you showed them growing it is awesome - looks almost impossible! When you pulled the little guy out of his medium, I thought you'd killed him. But not! He just went right back to hanging out in his moss. I thought it would take a very very long time to get pitchers on the plants, but now I know they grow pretty rapidly. Fascinating plants. Thanks for the info!
@Ke Le Longwood? Bah! Beautiful overall, dont get me wrong, the other greenhouses and outdoor landscapes are amazing. But they have such a tiny little corner for their carnivorous plants that need an overhaul. Basic species, poor conditions. Quite disapponted in that section when the wife and I visited a couple years ago.
I live in western Massachusetts. I have two nepenthes in a south facing window with a sheer curtain and a humidifier. They are doing pretty well .There are a lot of new pitchers forming but the leaves are paler than when I bought them.After watching this I think they may do even better in a cooler part of the house. My question is do you remove the pitchers at some point?
You can remove them whenever they start getting ratty looking. It’s actually a good idea to remove them when they get to that point because they end up becoming more of a bug hangout.
I am from Chicago, Illinois. Have you heard of the purple pitcher plant? Grows in northern areas and is suppose to be good for zones 2-7. Great info also that you present.
you mention a site where there is information about altitudes etc of different species of Nepenthes, I think you forgot to add a link. Could you please add it ? thank you
I have a nepenthes, as well as a few venus fly traps, sundew and the other kind that look like tubes( which I think I killed) would love to learn as much as I can about any of them .
You probably have not killed them. And don’t throw them out, a lot of carnivorous plants go dormant & die back completely. I’ll do a video on those because lots of them fall into the same care,
Wow, did I miss this many videos? Health issues. But I'm here now, and will be as often as I can. Note: eye allergies - Visine A or Naphcon or Equate Allergy eyedrops (Walmart's generic). All the same topical antihistamine ingredient in the same concentration (last time I compared). Works very well for me. Also, before using it, wash your face with mild soap and warm water, including (especially) around your eyes. Dry with clean towel. Ok, now to watch the rest of the video.
I have only one and my first one! He is healthy based on watching this great video. I was concerned because there are no pitchers since I have owned him which is 2 years. I think I may need to prune him to keep him smaller for his spot. How do I do that and can I root the cuttings I take off? Great content on this channel.
Great question! You’ll need to ensure a minimum of one leaf & one node per cutting. Your node is actually where the meristemic tissue is located (aka where the roots are formed). As the for how of pruning just give him a snip at whatever height or length you want. For the pitcher formation try more sunlight (or artificial) and maybe a pebble tray.
This was the best care video so far on these out of what I’ve watched, thank you. I just got a regular pitcher plant and I don’t want to kill it. It seems like a lot of channels are putting out bad info. Yours is in depth and seems very researched so I trust this one far more. May I ask where to purchase a nepenthes viking? It’s very unique looking. Is there an online source for ordering that plant?
New subscriber! Thanks for all that you research & share!! I missed this in the video (if you said it). When the pitchers start to brown at the cap then down towards the bottom of the pitcher should I prune them or wait until they're all the way brown & shriveled? And when I cut them off, should it be all the way up to the leaf base or should I just cut the brown parts off?? Thanks again ♡♡
I live in southwest Florida was wondering can I keep a pitcher plant outside humidity and rainfall is high during the spring and summer. Winter is dry but can get cooler and lower in temp
Yea they would love it! Only word of warning is to clean the leaves and repot before bringing it back inside. There maybe pests that have laid eggs in to the soil which can cause issues.
So I've been thinking of trying to grow one emersed(just the root system and soil) in an aquarium (acidic water, co2) partially on a driftwood, would that be a good environment? Or would it be better to have it planted just above where it's not coming in direct contact with the aquarium water, but where it can still benefit from the humidity? I will also have a suspended grow light above the aquarium.
I recently got a ventrata at my local nursery about three days ago and it’s my second nepenthes. My first one is I guess a tiny version of it that I got from Lowe’s and I’ve had him for 5 years now in a reused 5 gallon water jug with an irrigation and watering system and he’s just chilling and blooming away. However with this new ventrata is humongous and I do fear tbag humidity will be an issue. My room is the hottest part of my house and gets the most sunlight, not direct, but is the brightest so I have him hanging from my window. I do live in mid Texas so my house is quite humid if my wall ac is off, which I turn off when I leave the house bc I know my orchids like the heat. Will spraying my nepenthes with distilled water once a day keep him satisfied? Or maybe I can break him in to this low humidity like I did to my other one? In addition, this guy has some mold on him which I think is normal, but should I use 3% hydrogen peroxide to clean as much as I can off before repotting him in 100% sphagnum moss?
I know this is a year old. What if I use Leca balls for my plant? I'm having a hard time trying to report it. I'm noticing a white surface on top of the dirt. I recently brought this plant at a store. So, I'm unsure if they ripped me off or maybe the water isn't sipping through the dirt like it should be.
Yeah you can definitely do that. Depending on the dirt that was used it may be souls from the processing. For example if it’s a coconut choir base medium they do use salt in the production process. And if it’s not wash properly you will see lime deposits at the surface.
Good evening 👋🏻 just bought my first pitcher plant today… some of the pitchers were dried up (but all of my leaves are still going strong) and i pruned off the dried up pitchers. Most of the other pitchers are browning at the top, i trimmed off the dried up brown parts. Why would the pitchers have browned? I am in Ohio, Zone 6A. Now that she’s here with me I am planning to place her near my humidifier in a west facing window, will this be a good place for her or where would you recommend?
I killed two tiny babies putting them in leca. Just got a bigger one today. Wanting to succeed with the “cheaper” one before I splurge into cool species
nah eyewear is of little concern (to me anyway). we should be comfortable as often as we can. I think from a botanical perspective they are amazing specimens. Although, I have little interest in growing them. I do remember my Nana having a Venus Flytrap waaay back when.
Hi. Do you pack sphagnum moss tight or loose? Does roots need air? I read somewhere to let moss dry little before watering? Thanks for your information.
I’m sorry to tell you but unlike sundews and flytraps nepenthes are from jungles and grow off of trees. They cannot live in a bog setting they will drown
I wouldn’t just wait and see what it does naturally so long as the ambient humidity is what the plant needs. If your home is on the dry side you can always add water
that’s what i came here looking for info on! learned a lot, continuing on my search! i want to start using LECA with the majority of my plants… thought maybe because this plant loves water so much it may be a good fit!
NYC . Very much interested in micro-greens so I can grow them year around in my apartment. And anything cleans the air 🙂 Wear your glasses !!!! No need to be fancy shmancy!!!!! Be comfortable !!! 😉
Michigan USA 🇺🇸 house lighting Artificial in home lighting and window plant placement for a house that's at odd angles In between Southeast northeast Southwest Northwest having a difficult time gaging my lighting conditions plus over wintering my tropicals with the proper artificial lights from Cactus's , lithops , monstera, hoya's , Drusina, sangonium's, coladiums ect... please help
I'm in zone 10b and I have nepenthes. I've had them before and they did well but this time I bought one and its leaves are a light opaque color. No shine and the lower leaves are curled inward and one of the upper leaves are floppy? I have it in special soil and conditioned the soil but idk?? No video covers this issue. They only give care tips and don't mention this
A cry for help and suggestion: New food gardeners give up within months bc we dont know how to begin. Therefore, we collect bits of info, spend $$$$, and fail. Can you give a generalized vid for how to begin and how to persist? I really dont want to give up but I just could not find good info until I met GARDENING IN CANADA broadcasting from another country and in another growing zone. So, for example: 1) my gardens are too big, too shallow, too clay-y, and too pest-invading; 2) I purchased many tools and equipments which may be unnecessary and I still dont know which ones I should have; 3) I listened to too many gardening vids with the wrong info; 4) purchase too many seeds and plants which were destined to fail or sit in my seed collection. Help.
My nepenthes is infested w gnats. Almost had a spider mite issue but anyways how are you treating yours? Considering neem oil and horticultural soaps have nutrients and you can’t use em. I have sticky traps and I have done a couple rinses w 1/2C hydrogen peroxide in a gallon of water but they still won’t leave 😩 and When I got it the pitchers were empty and they told me to just add water🙄 so I lost all my pitchers except 1 😩🤦🏻♀️
@@GardeningInCanada I would have never even thought about that! Yk how many RU-vid videos I had to go through to find this video/ your channel!? So thankful cuz yours is the only one w solutions and new info backed by science and not just a man mansplaining for 30 minutes straights the same info I found w one google search 😅 all that to say thank you!
@@GardeningInCanada 1 last question. Why whenever I put my plants in a tank or put a bag over the top to “greenhouse” it why do they get moldy it’s like a grey/blue mold or fungus or idk what but it stinks to high hell, from far away. then eventually they die? Even if I don’t completely enclose it this happens. Like in a tank w no lid or in a large bag for a couple days after repotting. Basically any time I try to give em humidity I get mold. If u already have a video on this I’ll keep digging 😊
No, some lowlanders like viking(mirabilis) "CAN" stay in bog. But highlanders grow on tree or cliff. dont throw those plants in water. You can learn more from the windowsill man
