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Would espresso fall into the coffee category ?

I would think so, but I can't say with any certainty. Espresso is made with the same beans as coffee, it's just processed differently - beans are ground finer in espresso, and boiling water is pushed through using pressure so the flavor is more intense. I can't say if espresso would be too potent for a Nepenthes or not. I've never known anyone to try it - it'd make a great experiment to take two Neps of the same species and relative starting size and give one espresso and the other coffee, and record the results.

Definitely not latte or cappucino, since they contain milk and often additional flavorings that may harm the plant.

Veronis wrote:I would think so, but I can't say with any certainty. Espresso is made with the same beans as coffee, it's just processed differently - beans are ground finer in espresso, and boiling water is pushed through using pressure so the flavor is more intense. I can't say if espresso would be too potent for a Nepenthes or not. I've never known anyone to try it - it'd make a great experiment to take two Neps of the same species and relative starting size and give one espresso and the other coffee, and record the results.

Definitely not latte or cappucino, since they contain milk and often additional flavorings that may harm the plant.

Yeah that equals calcium, etc. which is definitely bad.

Do you need to make the coffee with distilled water?

that is very interesting...

Perhaps it makes the nep concentrate more on growing and cannot sleep at night so it just keeps growing lol.

lol if that's the case with caffeine and all, then why not use tea? lol it's full of antioxidants! ut I'm guessing soda's outta the quetion lol jk

kittyklaws wrote:lol if that's the case with caffeine and all, then why not use tea? lol it's full of antioxidants! ut I'm guessing soda's outta the quetion lol jk

I'm guessing that will kill the plant

yea, I wouldn't try it

kittyklaws wrote:yea, I wouldn't try it

I couldn't hurt to try tea, I'm sure it might. But than again.. you might lose it, than again you could alway buy another one from Flytrapcare store

Wait, what kinda coffee can you use?

Veronis wrote: Anyone here do this? How often, and what? A regular cold cup of coffee you'd otherwise drink, or diluted to x strength?
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I can vouch for this feeding regimen - at the beginning of the season, many of my Nepenthes were very slow growing and would not pitcher. I saved the coffee from the drip tray of my espresso machine and poured it undiluted into the pots (cooled of course!) once a week for a few weeks and watered in between with ordinary rainwater. Leaf size increased 30% with new growth clearly visible within 2. 1/2 weeks. Pitcher production seemed to be stimulated and pitcher size was also increased.

I must also test this then (:

do u have to use distilled water???

To make the coffee? Nah. You could...but i's not necessary for this.