I got my first Venus fly trap as a kid (pre internet era) and my plant came with a care manual pamphlet and it actually told me to give in cooked hamburger or cooked egg whites. lol Mine died too. But I just got a pitcher plant and I'm super excited for it! Thanks for the care video. Love that you had a before picture! I can't wait for mine to get as big as yours!
metal clothing racks are a super affordable, convenient, and attractive way to hang plants without damaging your walls/ceiling 💚 you can put little lights and stuff on them too
I feel like every plant enthusiast and gardener has a story of sadly killing a venus flytrap somewhere in their past. They offer them cheap at garden centers, so kids love to get them for the novelty. But there's lots of misconceptions about them and how to properly grow them, and compared to most plants you will buy they need some more specialized care. The hamburger bit made me laugh, lol. Nice job on that pitcher plant! It looks like it's thriving. I have a similar plant and it's growing a long vine with pitchers on it and I have it staked up with bamboo. Pretty cool!
Yes, you are absolutely right about the Venus flytrap! Mine came from an outdoor market, with no care instructions (and that was a few years prior to the internet.) 😉 It sounds like your pitcher plant is doing really well too! That’s great!
@@PlantMeHere Thanks! I actually have 5 different pitcher plants and I want to get more tbh because I love collecting these! The one that is vining is just my biggest one. It's the same variety as yours, which is (judging by appearance) Nepenthes x ventrata. Ventrata is pretty much THE best beginner friendly pitcher plant hands down because it is an easy to grow and very forgiving hybrid, and the nurseries mass produce them for sale at garden centers. So most people who want can probably find one for cheap! I keep mine outdoors part of the year (it comes in as soon as it starts getting cold though). It gets plenty of light out there, but I do protect it from too much direct sun during the heat of summer. The pitchers get a reddish hue in brighter conditions, they are very pretty.
I'm in Australia and I just got one that came in some big bits of cocopeat ..wondering if I'll keep it in that media or would it need soil at some stage or just a seasol fert?
you will kill it with soil or any fertiliser in the media! cocopeat is not very good, but still better than soil, coco chip is great! i grow mint in equal part peat moss, perlite and coco chips, most will grow them in long fiber sphangnum and perlite, but any nutrient in the media will kill them or at least hurt them very much!
So first I got this flash up it died and I don’t even remember what happened so I decided to get another plant it was a purple picture plant it’s still growing spectacularly and now I want a tropical pitcher plant and these fly trap and maybe Sundews
i know its been 3 years since this, but ventrata will adapt at alot of condition, their will live, but without the right condition, you will not have pitchers or not alot of pitcher, they need heat in the day, at least a small drop of temperature at night, alot of humidity and alot of light, but not too much, with there condition, you ventrata will thrive and pitcher on each and every leaf and will keep them for months! and grow way faster, i have plenty of nepenthes and my ventratas are smaller than yours and have around 20 pitchers each! i grow them in my highland tent that is at 27c in the day and around 15 at night with about 90% humidity. to help yours, put a tray of water under the pot with rocks to help evaporation and keep the pot out of the water and spray water on them a few time a day if possible making sure to spray the new tendril to keep them moist, this should help the plant allot to pitcher and keep them, and dont overfeed them, this can kill the pitcher, but if a pitcher is dying, now its time to overfeed them, they are dying anyway! hope this help, better late than never!
It’s almost impossible to give that type of pitcher plant (Nepenthes x Ventrata) too much light, if you put it in a south facing window you would probably get way more pitchers
it is very possible...lol! especially if not acclimated! when i began growing nep, i got told that t5 neon would be enough, my rebecca, ventrata and my brigsianna wouldnt pitcher, i tought it was humidity problem so i bought a tent, still no pitchers! then i bought led pannel, my rebecca now green turned a nice red again, brigsianna tendril becommed red and they both started to pitcher, but my ventrata almost cooked! leaf browning on top but after a while acclimating and putting it further from the pannel, it began to thrive...so yeah! its very possible to give them too much light! i now have high land and low land tent set up and plenty of neps! like hamata, bicalcarata veitchii and more! love these!!!
Hi Kim! This will be my second winter with my pitcher plant. Last winter, I kept it in a northwest facing window, but also ran my diffuser nearby as a small humidifier (maybe a foot away). It ended up putting enough moisture into the air to keep my pitcher happy all winter.
Assuming you live in the northern hemisphere (Go USA) a north-facing window will have little light? I live in the UK and keep mine in a southwest-facing window. Unless you live in the southern hemisphere and the north-facing window will be brighter? It looks like a Nepenthes x ventrata (which is a cross between N. ventricosa and N. alata). With time they do adapt to lower humidity, after a period of sulking. Give it a bit more light and you may get more pitchers. Love and peace Adam x
I do live in the northern hemisphere (northeastern US). Thank goodness they can adapt, because we don’t get much humidity here, especially during the winter months! Thanks for the info! I’m newer to pitcher plants, but they seem to enjoy my space.
Sashy HK hi! I don’t actually fertilize any of my houseplants. Did you get yours in the mail? I ordered mine online and it arrived in pretty poor condition. I kept it in the same window (northwest facing) for months, and I don’t water it until the top inch of soil is dry. I’m not sure if that will help yours, but I hope it survives!
Hi Lisa! I potted this one in a mixture of 4 parts regular potting soil to 1 part vermiculite. I like this mixture because it helps keep the little fungus gnats away.
I got my first venus flytrap this year without any experience or anything... and believe me when I say Murphy's law exist... it EXIST... and if wasn't because I made a thorough research about the plant, my plant would be long gone... I live in an apartment where I only get 3 hours of morning sunlight when these need at least 15 hours of direct sunlight... so i had to buy a sansi 36w growlight... I had to learn how to water it properly because traps were starting to wilt... then when everything seemed fine out of nowhere UK temperature increased up to 40 C degrees... which made my plant have a heat shock so it weakened.. if that wasn't enough that weakening attracted the WORST PEST POSSIBLE... THRIPS... those bastards left my plant worse than miserable until I figured a safe systemic pesticide (acetamiprid) which kinda worked but i have to see if they come back... thankfully the plant is starting to make a comeback... god knows what problems i will have to face during winter dormancy
you are sweet but i didn't get much out of watch this video which im here to learn how to take care of mine, you moved out the window and watered it once a week and thats all i got from watched over 8 mins of video
"hard straight ..." funny :) Thanks for sharing your Nepenthes growing experience
I got my first Venus fly trap as a kid (pre internet era) and my plant came with a care manual pamphlet and it actually told me to give in cooked hamburger or cooked egg whites. lol Mine died too. But I just got a pitcher plant and I'm super excited for it! Thanks for the care video. Love that you had a before picture! I can't wait for mine to get as big as yours!
metal clothing racks are a super affordable, convenient, and attractive way to hang plants without damaging your walls/ceiling 💚 you can put little lights and stuff on them too
This is a great idea! I actually have one on hand. Thanks!
You are so cute 🥺 love the Venus flytrap story. Too relatable
My favorite part was “that was she said” 🤣🤣🤣
I feel like every plant enthusiast and gardener has a story of sadly killing a venus flytrap somewhere in their past. They offer them cheap at garden centers, so kids love to get them for the novelty. But there's lots of misconceptions about them and how to properly grow them, and compared to most plants you will buy they need some more specialized care. The hamburger bit made me laugh, lol.
Nice job on that pitcher plant! It looks like it's thriving. I have a similar plant and it's growing a long vine with pitchers on it and I have it staked up with bamboo. Pretty cool!
Yes, you are absolutely right about the Venus flytrap! Mine came from an outdoor market, with no care instructions (and that was a few years prior to the internet.) 😉 It sounds like your pitcher plant is doing really well too! That’s great!
@@PlantMeHere Thanks! I actually have 5 different pitcher plants and I want to get more tbh because I love collecting these! The one that is vining is just my biggest one. It's the same variety as yours, which is (judging by appearance) Nepenthes x ventrata. Ventrata is pretty much THE best beginner friendly pitcher plant hands down because it is an easy to grow and very forgiving hybrid, and the nurseries mass produce them for sale at garden centers. So most people who want can probably find one for cheap! I keep mine outdoors part of the year (it comes in as soon as it starts getting cold though). It gets plenty of light out there, but I do protect it from too much direct sun during the heat of summer. The pitchers get a reddish hue in brighter conditions, they are very pretty.
Great vid! ...Thats what she said! hahaha lol Hello from Alberta
Your plant looks so cute🥺
What substrate did you use to re pot the plant? Have you ever trimmed it and what is proper way to trim it?
Beautiful... I mean the plant🙃
Just bought mine April 10th
Enjoy! I think they’re such fun plants!
Nice Video! Warm regards from Hamburg, Germany 🇩🇪
3:36 💀 you got me dieing
What kind of soil do you have at planted in?
What a beauty, and great explanation of everything
I'm in Australia and I just got one that came in some big bits of cocopeat ..wondering if I'll keep it in that media or would it need soil at some stage or just a seasol fert?
you will kill it with soil or any fertiliser in the media! cocopeat is not very good, but still better than soil, coco chip is great! i grow mint in equal part peat moss, perlite and coco chips, most will grow them in long fiber sphangnum and perlite, but any nutrient in the media will kill them or at least hurt them very much!
So first I got this flash up it died and I don’t even remember what happened so I decided to get another plant it was a purple picture plant it’s still growing spectacularly and now I want a tropical pitcher plant and these fly trap and maybe Sundews
I like to know where your windows are or what lights you are using to have your plants growing just on the counter top like that
How to grow such plants so as to get healthy plants. I have one plant of this type but it's not healthy.
i know its been 3 years since this, but ventrata will adapt at alot of condition, their will live, but without the right condition, you will not have pitchers or not alot of pitcher, they need heat in the day, at least a small drop of temperature at night, alot of humidity and alot of light, but not too much, with there condition, you ventrata will thrive and pitcher on each and every leaf and will keep them for months! and grow way faster, i have plenty of nepenthes and my ventratas are smaller than yours and have around 20 pitchers each! i grow them in my highland tent that is at 27c in the day and around 15 at night with about 90% humidity. to help yours, put a tray of water under the pot with rocks to help evaporation and keep the pot out of the water and spray water on them a few time a day if possible making sure to spray the new tendril to keep them moist, this should help the plant allot to pitcher and keep them, and dont overfeed them, this can kill the pitcher, but if a pitcher is dying, now its time to overfeed them, they are dying anyway! hope this help, better late than never!
It’s almost impossible to give that type of pitcher plant (Nepenthes x Ventrata) too much light, if you put it in a south facing window you would probably get way more pitchers
it is very possible...lol! especially if not acclimated! when i began growing nep, i got told that t5 neon would be enough, my rebecca, ventrata and my brigsianna wouldnt pitcher, i tought it was humidity problem so i bought a tent, still no pitchers! then i bought led pannel, my rebecca now green turned a nice red again, brigsianna tendril becommed red and they both started to pitcher, but my ventrata almost cooked! leaf browning on top but after a while acclimating and putting it further from the pannel, it began to thrive...so yeah! its very possible to give them too much light! i now have high land and low land tent set up and plenty of neps! like hamata, bicalcarata veitchii and more! love these!!!
How do you overwinter your pitcher? First timer and I'm 😬. How do you ensure humidity?
Hi Kim! This will be my second winter with my pitcher plant. Last winter, I kept it in a northwest facing window, but also ran my diffuser nearby as a small humidifier (maybe a foot away). It ended up putting enough moisture into the air to keep my pitcher happy all winter.
@@PlantMeHeredid you run distilled water in your humidifier too?
Do you feed the plant bugs? Since you keep it indoors?
Tip: spray distilled water or rainwater on forming pitcher every 2-3 days to avoid drying up.
you meant 2-3 times a day i suppose...
I think the lean was reaching towards the light
Assuming you live in the northern hemisphere (Go USA) a north-facing window will have little light? I live in the UK and keep mine in a southwest-facing window. Unless you live in the southern hemisphere and the north-facing window will be brighter? It looks like a Nepenthes x ventrata (which is a cross between N. ventricosa and N. alata). With time they do adapt to lower humidity, after a period of sulking. Give it a bit more light and you may get more pitchers. Love and peace Adam x
I do live in the northern hemisphere (northeastern US). Thank goodness they can adapt, because we don’t get much humidity here, especially during the winter months! Thanks for the info! I’m newer to pitcher plants, but they seem to enjoy my space.
I had to like and comment just for the that’s what she said joke lol
Hi there, I just got mine last week and it’s not looking good ;-( what do you feed it indoors? Would love some help. Thanks!!!
Sashy HK hi! I don’t actually fertilize any of my houseplants. Did you get yours in the mail? I ordered mine online and it arrived in pretty poor condition. I kept it in the same window (northwest facing) for months, and I don’t water it until the top inch of soil is dry. I’m not sure if that will help yours, but I hope it survives!
You are doing good if you have pitchers that big on that plant inside your house. Mine won't pitch if it is inside
Christie Workman just lucky... it took about a year, but definitely worth the wait!
Wow! Your plant is too healthy .......how this.....
I now want one. In Thailand they grow this plants just to eat the pitchers.
What medium is it growing in?
I just have this one growing in a 3/4 regular potting soil, 1/4 vermiculite mix.
WHAT SOIL!?
If it’s getting too much light the leaves will turn red
What type of growing medium is it in?
Hi Lisa! I potted this one in a mixture of 4 parts regular potting soil to 1 part vermiculite. I like this mixture because it helps keep the little fungus gnats away.
I’m a lil to the left 😂
I got my first venus flytrap this year without any experience or anything... and believe me when I say Murphy's law exist... it EXIST... and if wasn't because I made a thorough research about the plant, my plant would be long gone... I live in an apartment where I only get 3 hours of morning sunlight when these need at least 15 hours of direct sunlight... so i had to buy a sansi 36w growlight... I had to learn how to water it properly because traps were starting to wilt... then when everything seemed fine out of nowhere UK temperature increased up to 40 C degrees... which made my plant have a heat shock so it weakened.. if that wasn't enough that weakening attracted the WORST PEST POSSIBLE... THRIPS... those bastards left my plant worse than miserable until I figured a safe systemic pesticide (acetamiprid) which kinda worked but i have to see if they come back... thankfully the plant is starting to make a comeback... god knows what problems i will have to face during winter dormancy
you are sweet but i didn't get much out of watch this video which im here to learn how to take care of mine, you moved out the window and watered it once a week and thats all i got from watched over 8 mins of video
Will nepenthe's ventrata bloom
Mine never has, so I’m not sure about that.
Just a show video, no advice on soil and how to take care. Check if you can add useful details
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