I repotted my Gaya a couple weeks ago. Took them out of their small pot, keeping the soil around the roots to not disturb the plant too much, put them into a bigger pot with sphagnum moss, I’ve noticed all the leaves have brown spots, including my most recent leaf has a little brown spot. Is this normal after a repot? For the older leaves I didn’t like seeing the brown spots, but my newer leaf has a brown spot. That concerns me. So is this just from being repotted? I think I’m watering fine, most of the time the pot is relatively heavy from watering. Am I watering too much? Not enough?

How long for open the light in 1 day And how long time for humidifier in 1 day

Probably the most overlooked carnivorous plant

Wow this is informative! Thank you

I'll be testing this this year with a couple of VFTs I have. I do feel they would do better with a dormancy. I think of it sort of like how we tend to feel and perform better after we have a good night's sleep.

Im setting my tent up soon. I've lost a couple of plants with the windowsill method, and I don't want to experiment with more.

I am new to the whole community and came across the biggest arse out there. I did my research on VFT before purchasing some. Someone asked a question and no one was chatting with her about her issue. So, I did my best and tried to help. A "Chad" came at me telling me I didn't know chit and to shut up. My eye brow raised. I just left the group it happened in. Your group, I came across and actually helped a woman with her fly trap, educating her on how to care for the plant. It's a hobby. A fun hobby. If someone wants to come at me for offering advice, I usually lose my chit. I am stubborn and won't let the bullies sway me away. I surprisingly managed to grow a fly trap from seed so, I may know a wee bit!

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That's beautiful! Looks like drosera binata lmao

That pitcher has gotten absolutely no sun 💀

I like the changing of seasons and dont mind the dormancy at all,. It gives me something to look forward to in spring when they come back. Maybe in jamaica they reproduce from seed and each individual doesn't live long

So I am in the UK. Just over 2 years ago my wife bought me my 1st VFT, from a garden centre. Looked a bit tired and sickly but managed to keep it alive. We got it in September and decided NOT to winter it. Because of how it was looking. Fast forward to around September 2023, we went to another garden centre and got another one whose petioles were twice the size of my first one. We got it home and discovered it had a bad whitefly infestation so trimmed back and attempted to let it recover on its own, long and short the leaves didn't come back but we managed to rid it of whitefly. Briefly wintered both and brought them out early around march time. Both my first and 2nd are absolutely thriving dozens of petioles, and eating well too. Both sit on the upper windowsill of spare bedroom, south facing so sun all day, when we get sun 🤣. I bought 2 new ones from hants flytrap which are twice the size of my 2nd one so really big ones. Also we have a B52 variety, but is only a baby at the moment, it still eats well though. So in my brief experience, I haven't wintered the ones that were settling in, but once established we have and they are thriving. (Keepers less than 3 years) Hope that helps.

Oh I was wondering why the one had slow traps. I kept that one awake over winter since it was so small.

MA grower here, last winter was my first winter with any carnivorous plants. I was clueless about what to do with them, but I figured if I threw them into my mini greenhouse for the winter they'd come back nice and strong in spring. In truth, about half died, and the other half had mixed results, some stayed a bit green all winter even through frozen soil, others fully died back. The ones that fully died back have been struggling to grow all spring/summer, the ones is pseudo dormancy have done better, but not thriving. I think I've found a better spot for them this year, and I'm hoping for better results next year by increasing the insulation in my mini greenhouse for the winter, but maybe I'll keep one inside under my grow lights and see what happens. Great video, lots of good points and interesting perspectives.

Good debate topic. Im a fairly new carnivorous plant hobbyist. Ive been caring for them for only maybe 3 or 4 years but I've always grown or attempted to grow my VFTs outside. Im also a put all your plants outside kinda guy which to me is one of the best characteristics of things like VFTs and sarracenias, that I dont have to bring them indoors in my region during the colder months. I would like to know the long term effects of indoor vs outdoor growing but for me its still going to be a grow it outdoor and let it go through its natural dormancy choice. I also like to push the envelope and grow my Highland nepenthes types in Intermediate conditions though. :))

I have tried both and in my opinion have seen my plants produce bigger traps and leaves after dormancy.

What?!?!?!?!?!? I have never heard of that

That’s awesome 🤙 I have Filiformis Filiformis seeds in storage to plant next season. Looking forward to it.

Really beautiful

When I leave my home for vacation, is it ok let my nepenthes ventrata and gaya sit in a tray of water for 3 weeks? or will they develop root rot in this time?

Cool!

Well done! The rules are a bit different in a grow tent vs a windowsill vs a greenhouse. I have an evaporative cooler in my greenhouse that works quite well, but on warmer days my fogger can run all day near the cooler. Everthing gets wet early in the day from the fogger and the heat of the day evaporates the water on the leaves. I'm more careful in moderate temperatures and the fogger runs occasionally. I have tons of air movement, so this works for me.

I've only been into Wndowsill growing these carnies since Mid-April thanks to you - I'm also learning the hard way that N. Robcantleyi is extreeemly picky with overwatering! I had to throw it out the bag acclimation because there was just way too much moisture in the bag, I noticed the leaves starting to yellow very fast! I've had a Hamata pitchering profusely and it's somehow taking it a lot easier than the Robcantleyi. I'm still promising to gift you a cutting from one of my collection once they grow out! They love it here in the Bay Area.

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Good info as usual.. Always look forward to your videos.. "You're the reason for my success!"

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Do you get haters on your channel cause I posted a new vid and had to take it down cause of people being rude on it . So I was just curious if this has happened to you