An introduction to to fertilising nepenthes

[@TheCarnivorousChronicles]

Another fantastic video! Really enjoying your channel dude keep up the great work👊👌 Big respect from the UK 🇬🇧

[@Eat-Me-Exotics]

Thanks mate, always great to hear it's appreciated.

[@florinvoicufv]

What water 💦 do u use for misting Great video

[@Eat-Me-Exotics]

I use tap water for everything but I'm lucky to have very good cleam water here

[@guidingdads]

Mate do you know your water TDS?

[@jhowardsupporter]

I just spoke with Seasol and urea is the nitrogen source. I will be switching to all their products. With nepenthes I want to get some minatures. I am also getting on board with the yearly repotting of all my plants. I'd be curious if you are monitoring CO2 levels in your greenhouse as I heard it can drop in 1 day. Those CO2 bags I think would work in there. But your plants look amazing regardless.

[@Eat-Me-Exotics]

Urea isn't great for nepenthes but i havent had any issues with their products. Personally I'm going the other way with repottings, shift up to larger pots as needed, but I prefer them staying in the same pot as long as possible (ideally 5-10 years)

[@jhowardsupporter]

@@Eat-Me-Exotics Yeah peat moss will last many years, but if you have other plants I was reading about this old guy who hasn't repotted his roses in 25 years. He just top dresses with chicken manure at the start of every season and his soil hasn't become hydrophobic due to break down or compacted. I'm 10 years in and just learned about soil compaction the hard way. Hopefully one day my plants can look as good as yours!

[@Eat-Me-Exotics]

​@@jhowardsupporterI don't rate peat moss as a media for most nepenthes, it seems to work well for some of the lowland varieties but it compacts too much and holds too much water for highland and intermediate species. Coco peat could be a good option as it doesn't compact like peat moss does

[@jhowardsupporter]

@@Eat-Me-Exotics With coir you need washed and buffered kind from the hydroponics store in case anyone wanted to know. Bunnings sells a lot of things but you can't use them.

[@hannahf9301]

I use GT Focus orchid growth (liquid fertilizer) for my pings and it has zero urea, and also has calcium & magnesium and they seem pretty happy, but I also know they are more tolerant than other carnivorous plants

[@Eat-Me-Exotics]

I didn't know that, thanks for the heads up I might get my self some to try out.

[@bernardemmerich4483]

Thanks, very useful information. Is their a recommended N-P-K ratio?

[@Eat-Me-Exotics]

I'm using a nutricote 18-6-8 atm and seems to be giving me good results. Unfortunately because for so many years it was recommended you don't fertilise it's a new concept and hasn't been perfected yet. But the results speak for them selves that they need ferts.

[@jeffparryncc1701]

I use Seasol Powerfeed Pro Series, 1ml per litre on all my carnivorous plants and just spray it on everything. They love it. Every 3-4 weeks.

[@DeadlyPlants2024]

What’s a good parts per million for using Maxsea ?

[@Eat-Me-Exotics]

I haven't tried maxsea my self as we can't get it here in Australia but I'd probably aim for around 100ppm to start and you could slowly bump it up from there, I wouldn't go much above 200ppm though.

[@ana-zb7ix]

Hello! Can you use these on seedlings?

[@Eat-Me-Exotics]

Hi, yes I do use them on nepenthes seedlings but I wouldn't go more then 1 or 2 for a small seedling size pot.

[@everfreebrumby8385]

I’m jealous of your setup.

[@Eat-Me-Exotics]

It was about 5 years in the planning stages but now I'm wishing I did it sooner.

[@domgia9248]

My osmocote doesn't list urea. Maybe US has different formula?

[@Eat-Me-Exotics]

Maybe, I found it in the break down of percentages on the back. Be interesting to know if there is different formula's