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So one of the pitchers has finally opened up and I accidentally tore off the lid, will my plant will be find or did I doom it?



Call me a troll if you’re want but I just need an answer will it be fine?

Here is how I feel after accidentally tearing the lid off

as long as it can still hold water it can be used to feed the plant so just a cosmetic issue. i got a deformed pitcher on my Ventrata i have been trying to burn up with fert,osmocote,beta food and many many large insects. and it just keeps eating. its the one zip tied to stand up

Optique

Ohh thank god, also do they make digestive enzymes at will? The pitcher didn’t really have any liquid in it, soo... what do I do

optique wrote:as long as it can still hold water it can be used to feed the plant so just a cosmetic issue. i got a deformed pitcher on my Ventrata i have been trying to burn up with fert,osmocote,beta food and many many large insects. and it just keeps eating. its the one zip tied to stand up

For some reason to me the pitcher looks better without a lid

Unless they go dry or are stressed from shipping or something they should keep a little liquid in the pitchers on there own. but it wont hurt to fill them to 1/3 full with pure water. i had a bird shred some pitchers on my sanguinea × ventricosa this week myself.

optique wrote:Unless they go dry or are stressed from shipping or something they should keep a little liquid in the pitchers on there own. but it wont hurt to fill them to 1/3 full with pure water. i had a bird shred some pitchers on my sanguinea × ventricosa this week myself.

Ok

Phew I’m relieved, now about my red dragon, it is making new growth a new trap opened everything’s going good, some leaves are dying sooo... yeah

whats this look like to you i am guessing bird i placed them inside a cage until i get some hanging pots, hanging pots have had no issues.

optique wrote:whats this look like to you i am guessing bird i placed them inside a cage until i get some hanging pots, hanging pots have had no issues.

Woah... that pitcher is destroyed



Also based on my past behavior have I improved at all?

Yup it was a bird.

It happens

If you tore off the lid the pitcher can still work.