The roots are black, don't worry. Ive been growing pitcher plants for years. I keep mine in glass globes with only spaghnum moss. I water when the top layer of moss is a lil dry, and I fill the globe to have about 1" of water on the bottom (think bog) The pitcher plants I have on the window sills have grown to be about 7' long vines and the pitchers are about 6-8" long. I feed one meal worm every two weeks in the largest pitcher of each plant.
Use rain water or demineralized water. If you cant, let the tap water sit for a bit for the chlorine to evaporate. To avoid mineral accumulation from tap water, you can overflow their moss quite heavily to kind of rinse and disolve the excess. Also, they want an absolute ton of light. Most of them turn fully red when they are daily saturated. Just be carefull to not burn them. They can grow quite tall and are actually kind of like a vine and once new ones are growing from the base, you can pretty much just chop them apart if you want to share! Some pitcher might stay healthy for months and some only for some weeks or days. Let them completly dry out before cutting them to allow the nutrients to go back to the plant.
@@zeddeas4182Keep their tray filled with distilled water at all times. They like small pots and moss, don't use regular potting mix. I feed mine with maggots 1-2 every 2-6 weeks. If the traps start turning a deep magenta color, then its time to feed the plant. They like sun and moisture. They're also dormant plants so they may look dead in the winter, but keep their tray filled with water and likely your baby will come back in spring. Don't even bother with flies. They're hard to catch alive. I buy my maggots from bait shops. If you want you can pick less active ones, to ensure they won't escape the trap when they wiggle.
I literally bought a pitcher plant today and BAM this video got recommended. I already feed my Venus fly trap with maggots, so now I'll feed my pitcher baby with maggots too. I'll be wasting way less maggots from now one 😊
Actually fish food works amazing for my carnivorous plants, i just soak some flakes and drop small peices in the pitchers. Its the dried worm flakes i use
@@brendamoncayo2743 just whenever i felt like it 😅 kept it happy for about 2 years. It stayed ontop of my aquarium and kept the roots moist all the time. But during the summer i fed it about every other day with a tiny tiny flake or a mosquito i caught. But in the winter i only fed it once a week or 2
Bad advice - never use cinnamon on the roots of any plant, you will burn/kill the roots - they are extremely sensitive to it. Only ever use cinnamon on leaves/stems/flowers - never roots!!!!
@@FreakyFabz Question, So i just sprinkle the cinnamon on the leaves, the stems, and flowers areas? Is it okay to sprinkle together with the media soil?
The pitchers should have distilled water in them and the soil should be watered very lightly maybe once a week. That will keep the roots from rotting and help the plant to catch and digest the food.
@How To End Electronic Harassment w Grandma Jizard Plus it has to be a certain type of cinnamon, not just any type of cinnamon. Must be true cinnamon, Ceylon cinnamon.
You might be overfeeding them! You only need to feed one of the open traps per root system. Make sure the soil isn't too packed, and don't keep them in direct sunlight. That's basically all I know 😅
@@ij940 Wrong! Venus flytraps adore direct sunlight. You would be hard pressed to over expose them in most locations (except for like Arizona or Nevada or something). California Carnivores has excellent information on just about any and every carnivorous plant and you can reach out to them and ask questions directly. They are native to only the US, they can only be watered with reverse osmosis, distilled (not boiled or left to sit out, that's not distilled water), or rain water (rain water can sometimes not work depending on air quality or how it's collected). The main thing with the water is it has to be below 150ppm total dissolved solids (cheap tds meters can be bought from many places online), 0 ppm would be best, 50 ppm is usually the upper limits of the safe range. Their soil has to be nutrient free, no fertilizers at all. Well rinsed peat moss, pumice, perlite, long fibered sphagnum, very, very well rinsed Coco coir, silica sand many mixes will work, but they have to be devoid of nutrients and well draining. Lots and lots of light, full direct light. No humidity domes! Ever! They work like magnifying glasses and torch the plant. Humidity is not a big deal with flytraps, they are native to the US, not rainforests. Have the pot (drainage holes are a must) sitting in a tray of low tds water (water can be halfway up the pot). The tray can dry out but not the growing medium, the medium has to remain at least moist. You can also flood them and let it drain and evaporate as nature would, once the tray is dry wait like a half day or day and refill it (don't flood too often).
My flytrap is in a plastic pot,with the flytrap dirt mix,it hangs on a shepherd hook in direct sunlight and I never have to water it because of the rain.Winter it goes into my fridge for 3 months then taken out,watered,and slowly introduced to sun again.It is huge and healthy
Oh no honey!:( im so sorry I wish you the best of luck✌🌼
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We don’t see very well on the video, but I don’t think that’s root rot. Nepenthes have very thin black roots and some species (usually highlanders) really don’t have a lot of them, while some others have huge networks of roots, it really depends. It looks like yours still had the little fabric sometimes used to grow the seedlings. That thing is not always removed and directly placed in LFS. It looks like that’s what you removed…
Dont suppose you have any tips for repotting a Sarracenia carnivorous plant? I got one as a present & it's filled put the pot, but when I looked up how ti repot it, it was always about splitting up the nodes & repotting those. I just want to give it a bigger pot to grow in as it's currently very crowded in it's little starter pot.
Cause you have to split the rhizome, not the node. And that's the only way to do it, and it's really easy, you just don't be TOO STRONG but the plant is pretty strong.
I’ve also noticed if there hatching the flys you shouldn’t feed them cause they’ll end up eating the baby flies and survive from that I had one that didn’t grow roots for a year and still gave me new pitchers and everything so don’t stress to hard
Oh nooo! Man I wish I had a carnivorous plant again! I had two flytraps, but sadly one got stolen and the other later got torn up by some animal I think. I was so so sad. 💖
My dogs knocked mine over and I'm trying to save it.. she lost all her greenery ! I only have roots and a stem and idk what to do ! I'm just waiting praying and hoping for some new growth.
@@yuukihinamori2310 it depends on what pitcher plant you are talking about, cause sarracenia always live in waterlogged swamp conditions, and the psitticina is a semi aquatic plant lol.
It is not root rot! Carnivorous plants as far as I have seen so far do not have a bunch of root growth it’s like a bulb type and yours looks amazing right now. Continue to monitor your baby for a day or two before thinking you messed up or anything! They literally love it hot and rainy (they are swamp dwellers) so as long as that’s the case your your doing great!
How come my plants don’t look so fresh looking 🤔 cuz mine growing but they don’t have that type of tent to the leaves or texture like yours looks so new looking
Depends on what soil or grit you use, heat, etc. I highly recommend using cacti grit, im a major fan of bonsai jack Gritty mix, add horticultural perlite, and I add small lava rock. I also highly recommend terracotta pots over anything else since they absorb excess moisture the cacti doesn't need or want. If indoors for the winter your watering requirements are very low, only water if you see signs of dehydration, most cacti will start to shrivel a little and lose color tones and when you do water don't over do it. Just enough for the roots to get a drink. Most all cacti require bright direct sunlight for at least 7-10 hrs. Daily. And keep them at a temp of 70°+ During summer months depending on the variety you're needing care info for stick in bright direct sunlight and water when necessary
I will let you know tropical pitcher plants are not like the rest of carnivorous plants they do not like sitting in water instead they like damp moss with perlite you can also use orchid bark as well (that's probably why it has root rot) also I do not recommend messing with their roots since they will get extremely stressed
Good thing carnivorous plants dont need a lot of roots. As long as its wet enough, even a bare stem will let it survive. They dont get nutrients from the ground so its really not as much of a big deal. Store bought carnivorous plants are ofted grown in these growth pods.. the normal dirt and the mesh are really bad for them.
Carnivorous plants like these don’t respond well to fertilizers . They prefer to get most of their nutrients from bugs. Might be harsh on their roots. The soil doesn’t have to be very nutrient dense either, definitely don’t want to use regular potting mix
nepenthes do have veeerryy fine roots and are easy to break so it may have just been you were too rough but if it is root rot in the future do not allow the plant to sit in water it is better to have moist moss than soaking wet moss
I cant agree with your methods as a nepenthes owner for a few years. I only feed my plants actually bugs for one. Why did you repot it in the same size pot?? I have repoted mine in a much larger hanging pot and that took care of worrying about root rot and caused EXTREME amounts of growth. So you know there are actually pruning methods that will cause pitchers and basal shoots to produce! Theese darlings can live aprox 20-50 years or more and the plant has medicinal properties. I would NOT feed them anything that isnt a bug.
You should not be giving it osmocote!!! They really don't need fertilizer, just light. Also, I don't think it had root rot, I think you ripped them off 😢 most CPs have very thin shallow black roots.
Don't use sphagnum moss. It's awful for the environment. Coco coir is a great alternative and the most sustainable as every part of a coconut can be used. Peat and sphagnum moss are the worst to use
Shutup, no one's cares about the environment these days. And coco coir just isn't as good as sphagnum, you can't beat the sphagnum, and I often see growers growing their own sphagnum.
Oh no no, coco coir can’t be used for carnivorous plants, and especially not nepenthes. Carnivorous plants like low ph levels, which peat provides. Coco coir holds too much water and doesn’t allow for good aeration, which nepenthes desperately need
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You can use coco chips, as long as you rinse it well from all the salts it contains. Soak it overnight in mineral-free water and rinse 5-6 times.
NO. It's really easy to kill them that way. Catch some bugs and throw a couple in the pitchers every few weeks. Or just acclimate (slowly!) them to the outdoors during the summer when they'll gorge on bugs. I've even seen one that had a tiny dead mouse in its pitcher! Just be careful of burning their leaves and no direct sunlight
@@hanadr my plants have never died from it, the only time something bad happened was when I feed the tiny little baby pitcher with a big pellet, but it still had a growth spurt, the pitcher just died.
@@hanadr also, they need a couple hours of direct sunlight bozo.
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Yes, you can, it’s a common practice amongst growers. However, some species are sensitives to that and, depending on the relative size of the pitcher, it may die sooner than if it wasn’t fed.
