💦 Should you put water in your Nepenthes pitchers 😳 (Learn when it’s good and when it’s not)

[@Killerspider762]

I find this subject quite interesting and the tips in this video are great. I don't have any evidence to support this but I believe that nepenthes can also hydrate through their pitcher. Imagine a 20 meter tall vine. Would it rather bring water that far up or just catch rain in some of the pitchers and then absorbing it from the pitcher. Additionally don't many upper pitchers have less of a lid? Seems like they might wanna catch a little water.

[@WindowsillNepenthes]

I love it! I believe you are on to something... sounds totally logic that they will collect water from the closest source. I'll have to interview someone that studied them on the field now haha

[@Killerspider762]

@@WindowsillNepenthes would love to see it. You are so good to us Remi, thank you!

[@guillettoaparicio13]

@@WindowsillNepenthes i answer both you two. To my knowledge, Nepenthes and Cephalotus will absorb water from their pitchers if humidity soil is low. Totally logical. That’s the reason why pitchers dry out if humidity and watering go down, and that’s also the logical reason why they won’t pitcher (because of good conditions absence). This info is obtained in McPherson’s Pitchers of the old world book!

[@WindowsillNepenthes]

@@guillettoaparicio13 Thanks for that! I guess post-repotting the roots aren't effective to the plant so putting water may help... interesting. 😃

[@guillettoaparicio13]

@@WindowsillNepenthes there is another fact near of what you say. The deshydratation after re-potting comes because if you have a low humidity environment (we’re gonna suppose that the plant was before the purchase in a high humidity environment as nepenthes must be), it will dry completely out. The reason is the stomas were totally opened for transpiration, so in the new home the plant is gonna lose too much water by them because roots aren’t able to absorb too much water in that time. To prevent this effect, a small plastic bag for frozen foods are super effective!

[@ewanb8067]

I was just looking at some of my plants and wondering if I should add a bit of water to a pitcher that was low, and then I turned on my phone and saw this video, great timing haha

[@WindowsillNepenthes]

Haha, I've been lucky ;)

[@ewanb8067]

Thanks for pinning this!

[@RookiePresent]

I think a video about the process of buying a nepenthes would be cool. Like you buy one from a nursery and it arrives. Its pitchers die, is that normal? If that is a normal sign, what's an abnormal sign? How do you know what's shipping stress versus something else? A general roadmap for that period of time after getting a new plant and how to know if it's struggling because of the set up or because of shipping would be neat (if you haven't already done a video on it)

[@WindowsillNepenthes]

That will be an interesting video to make :)

[@pvpperdogs]

i am not a plant person at all and I have no idea why this was recommended to me, but I'm glad it was this was very interesting and I'm really curious to see more about these cool pitchered plants!

[@WindowsillNepenthes]

Happy that you are interested in these great plants :) May I suggest this video? kzbin.info/www/bejne/nXzZlXucqc6Ni5Y

[@theghostrider430]

Awesome video there ! covers all the points required for beginners/ experts. I came across an article when searching this topic recently. It was an experiment by adding water into pitchers with digestive fluids. The pitchers retained digestive properties even with dilution. I need to work on humidity. My pitcher liquid keeps drying and i keep filling it half way with water just to keep it from drying entirely. The humidity in my place ranges from 58 to 85 right now. Water kept outside dries up so fast that i really need a humidifier for the Neps.

[@VersityGamez]

I put water to my plants when I get them through mail like you said

[@davidjobe9876]

Great Tutorial Remy thanks ;)

[@scottmouse1921]

I wish I knew this a year ago! Thank you for posting!

[@peteruk8925]

Hi Remi can you also foliar feed nepenthes if pitchers very small, and if plants have numerous pitchers - say once per month ? Excellent video as usual thank you 😊

[@WindowsillNepenthes]

For small plants, yes you can foliage feed, you have no choice. But as soon as it can handle a betta fish pellet I tend to switch. But that's just my way of doing. ;)

[@monke1919]

Osmocote? It's weird with them, sometimes it helps and sometimes it just burns the pitcher for me. I use it still though, just not the small ones.

[@joemac3748]

Great video Remy!!!!

[@WindowsillNepenthes]

Thanks 😊

[@ScaryFear]

Hi Remi. I'm catching up on your videos. Been away from internet for a while. When I was new I used to fill the pitchers to the top. It didn't hurt them but I found they would drink the water. A few days later the water level was low. I'd get annoyed and keep watering them. I thought that was neat and I quit doing it.

[@philcam9493]

The fluid in the pitcher is similar to HCl and our stomach acid; yet some animals rear their offspring in them for safety.

[@WindowsillNepenthes]

For sure :) Some animals adapt for that. There is even some mosquitoes larva growing in n. ampullaria's pitcher and even if I hate mosquitoes, I find this adaptation cool. ;)

[@fabientan547]

Thanks for the tips ! Should you fill the pitcher with water + fert up to the peristome (until it spills out) or only halfway ? So difficult to jauge with tiny pitchers !

[@WindowsillNepenthes]

To the top. As you said it's hard on small pitchers. On bigger pitcher I only put half high.

[@BakuretsuKoinu]

Your collection is looking so good here :D

[@WindowsillNepenthes]

Thanks 😊 some are tiny so I'll have to be patient

[@andree-annemahoney9279]

Would it be possible to have the link for the fertilizer? Thank you and great video.

[@WindowsillNepenthes]

For sure! I use the Schultz 10-15-10 Plus: amzn.to/3LjtPHs On a 2L bottle, I put 7 drops to reach 140 ppm so that's good for feeding once a week ;)

[@davidjoseph3188]

Hi I just subscribed im learning about this plant I don't want to buy one until I learn as I don't want to kill it thank you for your videos its a big help for me can I keep this plant inside the house at all times or is it a outdoor

[@kthistle49]

Another great video Remy 🙂 what is your nutrient regiment? How often do you feed a plant, and what is your preferred method?

[@WindowsillNepenthes]

Orchid fertilizer diluted at 150 ppm, once a week (foliage + pitchers) is my favorite for small plants. When they are bigger I keep the foliage but put 1 Osmocote once per pitcher. Some paper thin pitchers only get liquid Orchid fertilizer as they can't stand the Osmocote.

[@kthistle49]

@@WindowsillNepenthes thank you very much 🙂

[@monaw6484]

I’m very interested in this as well- THANKS for the content ✌️💚

[@emilyoOo0]

Hello! So when you are doing your weekly feeding, is it ok to feed each pitcher on the plant their own fertilizer that works for their size? Even if that’s 4+pitchers at one time? Or do you feed one pitcher each week? Thanks! I’m so happy I found your videos, you are my new nepenthes guru, and I have learned so much from you!!

[@Curtis_Fu]

how should i remove the dead bugs after like a week? also, about how much sunlight does it need? thanks!

[@WindowsillNepenthes]

A few hours of sunlight is good. Too little light is often a problem. And you don't remove any bug, they will continue to feed the plant even weeks after they are in the pitcher.

[@Curtis_Fu]

@@WindowsillNepenthes thank you so much! i heard that usually they will leave the undigestable parts of a bug though, so what should i do about that?

[@tattooedchick24]

What kind of containers would work with egg crates to let Nepenthes drain underneath or to use as a humidity tray to hold water?

[@WindowsillNepenthes]

As you can cut the crate, really any kind of rectangle of more than 2 inches would work. I put 2 layers of crate to have a lot of water under the pots. ;)

[@tattooedchick24]

@@WindowsillNepenthes thanks so much for the reply. That gives me ideas for what I can do. I’m

[@samuelruiz7377]

I think it's different for north American pitchers because they tend to keep their leaves for 2-3 growing seasons and usually they stop producing acid and rely more on bacteria to break down material. I live in a desert climate and tend to add water to my pitchers

[@WindowsillNepenthes]

Thanks for sharing that!

[@user-uu1nw1bl9j]

Yes true, young plants (/ pitchers?) rely on acid but older ones rely on the ecosystem living inside of them. But in my very limited experience and from what I've seen online they are very rotting resistant anyway. There's this video by Green Jaws who throws an entire bird in an S. purpurea and the pitcher still looks fine after many weeks, whereas his similar sized N. robcantleyi pitcher looked like shit. I've also seen sarracenia that were split open and that were stuffed to the noggin with insects, something that would never work with Nepenthes. By the way, when you look at their upright lids, aren't Sarraceniae supposed to catch rain water anyway?

[@ineedmoney299]

Adding fertilizer with the water you add to the pitcher is okay?

[@WindowsillNepenthes]

Sure as long as it's diluted to no more than 150 ppm. And no more than once a week. ;)

[@helensarkisian7491]

Why feed via the pitcher? It does not work the usual way to feed a plant? I’ve never had one of these and so am completely ignorant about it. When you say the older pitcher is still working, do you mean it’s catching insects?

[@WindowsillNepenthes]

Carnivorous Plants evolved in really poor soil and their roots couldn't get enough food, so they evolved their leaves to find/catch food. And now their roots are not designed to handle a lot of root fertilizer. So we feed them the same way they eat in the wild: via the pitchers.

[@Robijn588]

Whats the name of the fertilizers you give ?

[@WindowsillNepenthes]

That's this one: amzn.to/3q6BUdc but diluted to 150 ppm, given once a week

[@Robijn588]

@@WindowsillNepenthes Thanks

[@joeorton1218]

What can I do all my pitcher's broke split The pot fell and they all got smashed

[@WindowsillNepenthes]

There is nothing to do, the next pitchers will be better. ;)

[@monaw6484]

This is awesome Thank you!! I just moved from the very hot California Central San Joaquin Valley Back home to NorCal in the coastal redwood forest 🌳 (where it’s opposite and very humid)! My awful ex Roomate killed them (so sad im tempted to out her online as a plant murderer) so I moved into my own studio and I’m starting over with my pitchers💚💚 and need a recommendation for a good place to order from?

[@WindowsillNepenthes]

Many good places for online order but I just did a video about Carnivero. Did you watched it? kzbin.info/www/bejne/hISyZGt_jsZ4eNk

[@Tommy81.519]

Did you say we can feed them with betta fish pellets?

[@WindowsillNepenthes]

Yes. For small pitchers I use that. ;)

[@animalartistryofcolettethe5988]

Remy, do you know if pitchers produce x amount of digestive liquid before opening or do they keep producing it throughout the life of the pitcher given it has good humidity?

[@WindowsillNepenthes]

From my observations, the liquid is only produced before the pitcher opens.

[@animalartistryofcolettethe5988]

That is what I was thinking too. Would be an interesting experiement to do! @@WindowsillNepenthes

[@goldieslacks]

My nepenthes is growing a whole other nepenthes under itself from the roots and the new growth is growing small very tiny green cups and the lids are opened already is this normal? They are really hairy too the tiny cups.

[@WindowsillNepenthes]

Yes, it's a basal shoot, you can leave it or cut it. I have videos about that. ;)

[@nurpadaachmatd2917]

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[@xenonproductions1990]

Oh dam didnt think rajahs would like window conditions

[@WindowsillNepenthes]

It didn't on the long term... It's in the grow tent now.

[@stilljustliam9196]

I put distilled water in one of them and by the next day that pitcher was dying so I learned my lesson there

[@WindowsillNepenthes]

On but are you sure something else was on? Did the was new? It's not a 100% guarantee method, but that just increases the chance not having the pitchers to dry and die post shipping. ;)

[@stilljustliam9196]

@@WindowsillNepenthes I saw one video before on yt shorts of a person filling a pitcher so I thought that's what you had to do I got mine at a big box store. It seems to be happy now it has 2 pitchers at a time it's pretty small I haven't fed it anything yet cause winter killed off all the bugs. Plants are all about living and learning

[@sturmsoldat_ddd]

Tell me I wasn't the only one who thought of that when seeing the thumbnail

[@Pink7omy]

I put water in my plant’s pitcher before and then the next day or two mold grew on it. 😔

[@WindowsillNepenthes]

After shipping? Are your plants in a really humid environment?

[@Pink7omy]

@@WindowsillNepenthes Yes, I live in the southern part of USA. But it’s still alive since I cut the mold out. I hope it acclimates quickly.

[@robertblixt9676]

No

[@WindowsillNepenthes]

You are wrong ;) . For example it's important after shopping.

[@robertblixt9676]

@@WindowsillNepenthes ok but i dont like to do it and will never do it

[@robertblixt9676]

See how i decide when to water : kzbin.infoLx9VG9jqM4U