- Sat Apr 15, 2023 5:17 am
#433857
Hey friends,
Nepenthes seems to be the species that gives me the most anxiety.
I have 2 nepenthes, ventricosa x aristolochioides and ramispina. Both are indoors, as the concrete South-facing porch I have with my apartment gets a little too hot sometimes. I some 500 watt grow lights from Amazon that the VTFs and the one sarr I have seem to do perfect fine in. Honestly the VTFs and sarr seem to not care if they're inside or outside. The neps get enough indirect light, their medium stays moist enough to wear they won't get root rot and I recently got a humidifier to put near the plants to help raise humidity.
The neps still stress me a little, though. The ventricosa x aristolochioides has really slowed down on pitcher growth, though that was in part to me repotting it and it also developing a basal growth. It is growing out new leaves for pitchers, but slowly. The ramispina, which was seed grown from California Carnivores, is a little bigger than a quarter and seems to be struggling under my care (as seen here. One tragic thing was I managed to snip off the one developed pitcher it had when I was unpacking it, but it did develop a new pitchbut now that one is drying up not long after I gave it a tiny osmocote pellet and a teenie tiny droplet of maxsea and distilled water. A new one is coming in though, slowly.
I feel like I'm missing something when it comes to care for them, or maybe it's just my impatience. What are some things you had to figure out when first growing nepenthes and, if you can glean anything from what I've said here, what suggestions would you give?
Nepenthes seems to be the species that gives me the most anxiety.
I have 2 nepenthes, ventricosa x aristolochioides and ramispina. Both are indoors, as the concrete South-facing porch I have with my apartment gets a little too hot sometimes. I some 500 watt grow lights from Amazon that the VTFs and the one sarr I have seem to do perfect fine in. Honestly the VTFs and sarr seem to not care if they're inside or outside. The neps get enough indirect light, their medium stays moist enough to wear they won't get root rot and I recently got a humidifier to put near the plants to help raise humidity.
The neps still stress me a little, though. The ventricosa x aristolochioides has really slowed down on pitcher growth, though that was in part to me repotting it and it also developing a basal growth. It is growing out new leaves for pitchers, but slowly. The ramispina, which was seed grown from California Carnivores, is a little bigger than a quarter and seems to be struggling under my care (as seen here. One tragic thing was I managed to snip off the one developed pitcher it had when I was unpacking it, but it did develop a new pitchbut now that one is drying up not long after I gave it a tiny osmocote pellet and a teenie tiny droplet of maxsea and distilled water. A new one is coming in though, slowly.
I feel like I'm missing something when it comes to care for them, or maybe it's just my impatience. What are some things you had to figure out when first growing nepenthes and, if you can glean anything from what I've said here, what suggestions would you give?