You are right, I touched on that point in another video (an old one) but I added it to the big tutorial: th-cam.com/video/RAFj0Bru4XQ/w-d-xo.htmlsi=O2NcPLqzYPcLDw4p&t=789
Thank you for making these videos! I'm in Santa Barbara, CA and my friend gave me her two Napenthes plants that were dying. I'm learning so much to try and revive them.
Gday mate!! Great vid!! I live in Western Australia (hot+dry) and I spray my Nepenthes at least three times a day in summer with RO water, as winter slowly come's the plants need less and less spraying. I never water mine in winter, then in summer I make sure they have time to dry out from water to water. Looks like your weather is just as full on as what we have here. At the end of the day plants are like people, they need what we need and if you can adjust to your or the plants environment(s) life will be a lot better for you and your plants. All the best!!
I mist my nepenthes as i dont have a greenhouse and the climate i live is a hot coastal one. I mist them anytime i go near them and the climate will do its job of drying the water, but i stop misting after evening. They've been loving it. I have kept them on a tray of water, making sure the pot doesnt touch the water. I have literally seen improvement in growth in just 3 days. And i water them once in 2 days making sure the substrate never goes dry. Somehow i randomly chose this schedule as i do for my orchids, but you are right on point. Perfect video. On the other hand, i might have to contradict your experiment. I doubted that the cocohusk will retain less water when you began the experiment as you are using the chunks. I am using coco peat which is finer. It retains a lot of water. If not in the first use as it needs to start absorbing, it surely holds a lot of water, probably the same as the other 2 media.
Your comment couldn't be better! My next video is precisely about coco peat and it's actually not that bad! Also, what orchids do you grow beside your nepenthes? I'm thinking about trying that (or maybe air plant).
@@WindowsillNepenthes That would be great. I'm growing dendrobium and Cattleya in only charcoal media. I water them once in 2 days by dipping in a tub of water for 2 minutes each. Had amazing growth on dendrobiums. Unfortunately some playing kittens and snails destroyed around 15 dendrobiums. I'm growing my new plants with extra care now. 😀
@@WindowsillNepenthes Yes I don't mist. I am still acclimating my nepenthes to sunlight. How long does it take before going full sun? Mine is Nepenthes glaciliflora (I'm not sure with the name).
@@ProximaCentauri88 Yes, N. graciliflora is endemic to the Philippines so you know it will be happy. For the full sun, I have no idea. I don't know if it would like a real full sun so try to find a place where it will have shadow between 1 and 3pm maybe?
@@WindowsillNepenthesMy pleasure. I am a real plant enthusiast growing just under 100 plants just in my home.(i have big windows) and this plant has really inspired me so much i probably will give up on the orchids to make room! So entirely different are they not and adorable!
Interesting! I live in a tropical country and my windowsill nepenthes grows in a mix of coco husk/perlite. And it SHOOTS UP like mad. I have a small wooden skewer (from a street stall) to test my soil's wetness, and as such I mostly water once or twice a week. I don't need to mist the leaves and pitchers (in fact, in my case, it makes the leaves and pitchers brown easier - maybe as a result of bad wind interaction from the constantly rotating ceiling fan) but the upper stems are not producing pitchers as they are now in shadow. Thankfully, there's now side shoots popping-up from the stem, close to the ground, so that's a relief.
@@WindowsillNepenthes Haha! Maybe not now, though! I'm going through some pruning and cutting experimentation with my plant, because it's really getting too tall!
Thanks for the test, very nice. Mine came from the store in peat/perlite but I want to repot in sphagnum/perlite, can I do this without isse or should I expect the plants to react/complain about this?
Hi man I have my plants outside can I use tapwater for misting I have RO for watering the plants To purchase a misting pump it’s a little bit too expensive but if I have to I have to
Yes, my mix is *dried sphagnum moss, perlite* and some coco husk (just because I have some but that's not mandatory). I top with live sphagnum but not more than 1 cm and it's also not mandatory. ;)
Friend! Awesome guide, saved it thank you!!! Im going to see your next videos I like the way you talk it's kinda hearthwarming :) I have some quick questions: Can I put 1-2 cm leca thingie on the bottom of my nepethes tray? and next would be can my tray be some plastic or glass container without a cover? Id love to spray them and keep water in container but it worries me kinda, that humidity thing. I live in a house made out of wood insulated with polystyrene and on top of that at the first floor. The container would be pretty close to the roof like 20 - 30 cm and its literally planks. Do you know if this would affect them in a harming way to my house? these plants are awesome and id love to take care of them but not if it has to cost me my home :( Nontheless you answer thanks again for awesome video!! Im going to watch more :)
Happy that you like it :) If the LECA is in the tray (not in the substrate) and you water from the top, the minerals will not be able to climb up and reach the roots. So yes it is possible. For the humidity and the wood, it depends of the air-flow. The humidity son't damage the wood but if the water you are spraying touch the wood it will be a problem. I never faced this problem and that's just my opinion on that, but you leave in your house so trust your opinion ;)
Hi i got my nepenthes from the mail, but the leaves came yellow, and the tips of the leaves brown, what can i do to save my nepenthes? Thank you, love your videos
I live in a really dry climate, although it’s near the ocean, it gets hot and dry in the summertime. I don’t have a greenhouse. I keep my nempenthes outside hanging in the shade. I mist my nempenthes with rain water when I have it, or distilled water, (never using tap water) twice a day in the summer. Once a day in the colder months. If I don’t mist them, they won’t produce pitchers and the existing pitchers will dry up. This time of the year (August), I’m watering every other day. Venus Fly Traps, I bottom water (with only distilled or rain water) and leave some in the tray for them to soak up in the hot weather. They feed themselves. I have so many pitchers growing off my nempenthes. I need to repot them soon because there’s one or two baby plants growing in their pots now. One of my plants is starting to fall out of the pot. Should I wait for dormant season to repot? I don’t know if I should separate the baby plants off the mothers. Does anyone have suggestions?
Hi Jodi, you don't have to remove the babies (basals) it's more for trade/sell or to prevent having a bush 😉. And about Nepenthes dormancy... there is no such thing: th-cam.com/video/CTjXrJ3BiAQ/w-d-xo.html
With super high humidity like that and if you have a well drained substrate, like 50/50 sphagnum/Perlite, I would water every 7-10 days. As long as the substrate is moist is good. ;)
Fantastic Plants.Have a couple o questions.1/ If a leaf gives off a Pitcher which becomes mature but dies, will it produce another pitcher or should i remove the leaf.2/ If a leaf changes color to reddish brown ,should i remove the leaf? Thankyou for any advice.
Only remove dead leaves ;) and if a leaf didn't produce a pitcher and the pitcher embryo dries then you can remove the whole tendril. But leave the leaf as it will produce energy.
Thank you for the video! Got a beautiful nepenthes in lithuania, the nepenthes in general is super hard to find here as is, the one I got is absolutely gorgeous. If I end up killing it idk if I'd find another in person lmao. Subscribes and now I'm binge watching the videos! P.S; I'm from Canada, Quebec actually, and your accent is reminding me of home ;') best of luck to you!
@@WindowsillNepenthes I do have one question but I'm not sure if it's video worthy lol My Nepenthes has a basal shoot. Because of how hard nepenthes in general can be to find here, I wish to propagate it. However, I don't have space in my mini greenhouse to put it. Do you have any techniques to replicate a humid environment? Like taking a see-through plastic cup, spraying water in it and putting it upside down over the propagated basal sprout, or putting it in a ziploc bag, or anything else? Thank you!
Excellent video! How often do you mist the leaves? I live in Israel where it’s warmer and drier than Canada, especially in winter. My Nepenthes grows indoors on my windowsill. I am contemplating if to mist it and how often.
Thanks! I tend to mist morning + evening in week day and the afternoon in plus during the weekend. How many nepenthes do you have on your windowsill? I'd love to interview you as you are in a very different climate. 😀
@@WindowsillNepenthes thank you Remy, but I'm just a begginer. So not much to interview about. Here in Israel there aren't really any growers selling plants. Most plants are imported from JM plants in the Netherlands, so we don't get much variety. I only have one plant at this time. Maybe I should order seeds online?
Depends... Is that a new leaf or an old one? Did the condition where the plant was growing changed? Maybe check this old video: th-cam.com/video/VO15ssY1DIM/w-d-xo.html
I recently moved my huge nepenthes from my outdoor verandah because it's winter here into my laundry, it's warmer in there and it gets bright indirect light right next to the window most of the day when before it got no direct light but bright shade. It seems to be growing a lot of new leaves but still no pitchers. It's trying, I see the tiny little pitchers at the tips but they always go brown and turn into nothing. Do you know what might be wrong? It is a very large plant, very healthy looking, huge shiny green leaves, growing over the sides like a vine, I re-potted it recently in long fiber sphagnum and perlite, what I always use, it's very well draining and airy and I water it with rain water. I also try to mist it with distilled water whenever I go in the laundry, it stays nice and moist for about half the day if I mist it in the morning. I really don't know what more I can do, do you think because it's winter and quite cold that's causing the problem? My laundry is tiled and gets very cold at night, maybe around 5 to 10 degrees Celsius. I'm not sure of the variety, but it looked almost identical to yours in this video when it was that size and had the same kind of pitchers.
it's possibly adapting to it's new condition. If you still dont have any new pitcher in 2-3 leaves, then it may need more light with possibly more humidity. ;)
I usually collect the rainwater from my gutter in buckets and then store them in cans :) But this year I invested in a rain barrel. It's a 50 US gal = 190L :D
Can I use a Globe to water them Like one of those globes that you fill with water and stick it down into the soil so that it's slowly Waters the plant for days ,
Great Video and sympatic guy 👍 Your plants Look like very good 👍 My Nepenthes Macrophylla and platychila x lowii grow also very well, even without a terrarium and i do it just like you do. I just have peat, perlite mixture with sphagnum planting, for the humidity. Greetings from Germany :)
@@WindowsillNepenthes Moin (hey)🙋♂️, my nepenthes all grow on the windowsill. i have the window open 24/7, so air circulation is guaranteed and we currently have a great climate for the plants in germany. Sun in the morning and thunderstorms or rain in the afternoon at 25-28 ° and at night around 14 ° and high humidity. at night i close my curtains and the window is open and this creates my own microclimate. my macrophylla is also very small (Seedling (4-6cm ø) and i have had it for two months, it is growing super and forming new pitcher, just like my other two large nepenthes. I could also send you pictures or a video so that you can convince yourself, but unfortunately it doesn't work here on youtube.😅🤷♂️ Best regards 🙋♂️🙂
When the tray is totally evaporated, do you water it or you wait like 2 or 3 days ? Because if I don't wait, my pot will always be sitting in water. I use perlite and long fiber sphagnum like you :)
We're neighbors I'm in northern Mn. Reason I asked is I have a female plant(nepenthes)and am interested in obtaining some pollen,thought knowing species would be useful.
I just purchased a nepenthes "lady luck," and re-potting it i see there are actually two plants in the pot. I suppose to make it look full. Should I separate them? Looking at the roots i see two separate starter pots!
Yes I watched it. I have my nepenthes in a 50/50 perlite peat moss substrate. I have it placed in another pot with water in it that evaporates to create humidity as well as I spray the leaves every couple of hours. I actually learned a lot from your video and that's what I have started doing. This is my first nepenthes and I want to take good care of it
I thought every time the leaves dried out I need to spray them again. I have been a massive care bear to my new carnivorous plant. I finally started trying to take care of other ones then just a venus flytrap. I expect to not be great at this. This video really helped me, thank you!
@@WindowsillNepenthes yeah bro i am using it 100% cocopeat.. although it doesn't hold water for long, so no stagnantion of water... Tiny baby nepenthes are also growing from media
My nepenthes are in an indoor greenhouse. Not much evaporation I don’t think because I’m using Grow Lights. I spray them about three times a day .If I leave for a couple of days, should I saturate the substrate or is it OK to use the water tray method? I don’t want root rot, but I don’t want them to dry out.
If you don't have high evaporation, they should handle a full week without water. They are resistant to a little lack of water, but not so much for over watering (root rot). Less is better than too much 😉 Just water them before you go
I have the humidity for my nepenthes set at 80%. And I spray any tendrils with water as often as possible. Is that not necessary? Will they do just fine at 70%? . The light is the first most important thing I think, and then secondary is humidity for the pitchers to form, right?
A real clone would be taking a cutting as it's 100% plant and yes, I know how. if you are talking about tissue culture, from my understanding it's not really cloning as they use seeds.
@@WindowsillNepenthes I use sphagnum moss with perlite 50/50 mixture. The nepenthes are all either intermediate or lowland. Mostly hybrids as well which are very hardy in terms of acclimation
I have my nepenthes sitting on a heat mat. I’m reluctant to try the water tray method because of potential root rot. I was thinking of experimenting with having each of my pots sitting in a bowl filled with just a little bit of rain water so that the water would be barely touching the sphagnum Moss inside the pot. Do this so I can leave for two or three days without worrying about them and I wanna try this so that maybe I don’t have to spray them every day like I’ve been doing
If the sides of my leaves are going from straight to kind of curling on my nepenthes gaya, is that from too much watering? I watered them a week ago and the pot is still kind of heavy. Or is it nothing?
Sure I could use a watering can 😅, it's just that all my rain water is stocked on cleaned milk can (1 gallon) so transferring the water in a watering can is an extra step and I'm lazy ;)
@@WindowsillNepenthes just pulling your leg. I use a syringe so I know exactly how much they are getting. They are suspended in my windowsill so I can't have them in trays. I have a few small ones in saucers and I never worry if a bit goes through and into the saucer. I use RO water but as I have a water meter, I use only what I need. I also have a few Heliamphora on my windowsill, not in a terrarium but under lights. Humidity in my living room is about 50-60%.
@@adamkesingland968 You know what? in France I had a medical syringe to fill the pitchers with Maxsea but here in Canada, I haven't found any yet (I haven't really actively searched). It is clearly quite practical.
@@WindowsillNepenthes can't get Maxsea in the UK. I just pop one Osmocote pellet in each adult pitcher as it opens. I do the same with my H. heterodoxa. I have even been known to do the same with Cephalotus if the pitchers are big enough. I have a couple of 50ml syringes. 50 ml of water is enough every other day for the hanging pots and about 30 ml in the 4-inch pots. All my sarracenia are at my sister's and live outside. My sister has rainwater and a south-facing garden, my VFT's and Darlingtonia are there too.
Hey i have a question. Im keeping my nepenthes 3 types Bloody Mary,Gaya and Ventrata in a glass containers filled with decoration stones and water for humidity. And they stand on a window. Im spraying them once a day. Is it quite okay ? i just bought them ant they have low space from the jars wall like 2 cm free space. No trays water just goes down to the water in the jar and pot have no connection to that water.
Sound OK for the watering, but is your glass container open on the top? Because these nepenthes grow fast! Later hen they get too big, you should be able to use a tray.
@@WindowsillNepenthes hey thx for answering and yes theyre open on the top and later on im planning to put them in aquarium but im gonba watch as they grow and make decisions :)
From what I know, lowland nepenthes accept it and nurseries hybrids tolerate it. But as soon as you do that with intermediate or highland species it's dangerous. What hybrid do you have? For how long?
If it's a few leaves it can come back, if it's the whole plant probably not except if you give it perfect care. Try to figure out "why" it turned fully brown.
For the peat moss it's better to repot because that's really compact (I have a video how to repot easily). For the water, it will depend of the TDS (minerals inside the water), if after the filter you have under 100 TDS, yes it's good. ;)
I'm only posting on Reddit, not following. Not a big fan of this forum where people post a "help please" but never do a research for solution as the same questions come over and over. At least on regular forums modo can sort them and the knowledge stays accessible... but in Reddit the knowledge sinks in the post and nobody access it ever again. And I can't be everywhere TH-cam taking a lot of my free time. ;)
Yes for the humidity control it is key...When growing these plants you want consistent humidity and temperature. So yes some will grow but for them to be happy and flourish it takes similar conditions to the location they came from. With consistent humidity above 50% to 80% your Nepenthes will pitcher more rapidly, consistently and be a healthier plant overall. Happy growing!
@@billlumberg5746 Yes but you can also grow them nicely in "less perfect conditions". And a closed lid on a windowsill could do more harm than good if sun hit on it and cook the plants.
yes true you have to be careful with direct sunlight. Also would recommend a $30 grow light will help significantly. But you sound like you know what your doing so Happy growing Thanks.
You have stated you use rainwater, but not if rainwater is a must comparing to tap water? Perhaps an idea to state that as well?
You are right, I touched on that point in another video (an old one) but I added it to the big tutorial: th-cam.com/video/RAFj0Bru4XQ/w-d-xo.htmlsi=O2NcPLqzYPcLDw4p&t=789
Thank you for making these videos! I'm in Santa Barbara, CA and my friend gave me her two Napenthes plants that were dying. I'm learning so much to try and revive them.
I hope your plant will recover :)
Gday mate!!
Great vid!! I live in Western Australia (hot+dry) and I spray my Nepenthes at least three times a day in summer with RO water, as winter slowly come's the plants need less and less spraying. I never water mine in winter, then in summer I make sure they have time to dry out from water to water. Looks like your weather is just as full on as what we have here.
At the end of the day plants are like people, they need what we need and if you can adjust to your or the plants environment(s) life will be a lot better for you and your plants.
All the best!!
I couldn't have said it better 😉
I mist my nepenthes as i dont have a greenhouse and the climate i live is a hot coastal one. I mist them anytime i go near them and the climate will do its job of drying the water, but i stop misting after evening. They've been loving it. I have kept them on a tray of water, making sure the pot doesnt touch the water. I have literally seen improvement in growth in just 3 days. And i water them once in 2 days making sure the substrate never goes dry. Somehow i randomly chose this schedule as i do for my orchids, but you are right on point. Perfect video.
On the other hand, i might have to contradict your experiment. I doubted that the cocohusk will retain less water when you began the experiment as you are using the chunks. I am using coco peat which is finer. It retains a lot of water. If not in the first use as it needs to start absorbing, it surely holds a lot of water, probably the same as the other 2 media.
Your comment couldn't be better! My next video is precisely about coco peat and it's actually not that bad!
Also, what orchids do you grow beside your nepenthes? I'm thinking about trying that (or maybe air plant).
@@WindowsillNepenthes That would be great. I'm growing dendrobium and Cattleya in only charcoal media. I water them once in 2 days by dipping in a tub of water for 2 minutes each. Had amazing growth on dendrobiums. Unfortunately some playing kittens and snails destroyed around 15 dendrobiums. I'm growing my new plants with extra care now. 😀
@@theghostrider430 thanks for the tips!
I just bought my first few Nepenthes and found this video very helpful. Thank you!
thank you for being so in depth! was super confused why the seller told me not to sit it in try like my vfts so this is good to know
Happy to help ☺
Love the substrate water retention testing!
Thanks :)
Very helpful! I need this tips for my first pitcher plant. Merci beaucoup!
Subscribed from the Philippines! 🇵🇭
Hi! For Philippines I guess it's already really humid right?
so avoid spraying I think. :)
@@WindowsillNepenthes Yes I don't mist. I am still acclimating my nepenthes to sunlight. How long does it take before going full sun? Mine is Nepenthes glaciliflora (I'm not sure with the name).
@@ProximaCentauri88 Yes, N. graciliflora is endemic to the Philippines so you know it will be happy.
For the full sun, I have no idea. I don't know if it would like a real full sun so try to find a place where it will have shadow between 1 and 3pm maybe?
@@WindowsillNepenthes Thanks a lot! Maraming salamat po! 🙏🇵🇭🌿
Very fascinating video humidity is key
So much thanks for your clear explanation, it really helps! Hope to see more experiential videos for Nepenthes! I’m the fan from Taiwan 🇹🇼!
Thank you!
Really like your honest approach to looking after these amazing plants. Just subbed and looking forward to more tips on the subject. Thankyou!
Thanks for the sub!
@@WindowsillNepenthesMy pleasure. I am a real plant enthusiast growing just under 100 plants just in my home.(i have big windows) and this plant has really inspired me so much i probably will give up on the orchids to make room! So entirely different are they not and adorable!
Don't normally just watch someone explain something but really enjoyed this. Very informative
Thank you for your knowledge on nepenthes it's really been helpful! Also I am also located in Manitoba in in a 2b zone!
Hey Did you join our FB group? (Manitoba Carnivorous Plants Addicts)
@@WindowsillNepenthes no but I will right now!
Excelente video.
Thanks!
I hope it will help beginners :)
Just got my first Nepenthes, thanks this was really helpful!! I don't have a greenhouse so these tips really help.
Happy to help!
Just don't be shy with drainage. Sensitive roots...
By the way, what Nepenthes did you took?
Thank you very much!! Really helpful!
After you repot what you going to do with old moss?.
Most of the time I'll use it on the garden as compost.
Great video!!! Loved the experiment 😍🇺🇸
Thanks!
Interesting! I live in a tropical country and my windowsill nepenthes grows in a mix of coco husk/perlite. And it SHOOTS UP like mad. I have a small wooden skewer (from a street stall) to test my soil's wetness, and as such I mostly water once or twice a week. I don't need to mist the leaves and pitchers (in fact, in my case, it makes the leaves and pitchers brown easier - maybe as a result of bad wind interaction from the constantly rotating ceiling fan) but the upper stems are not producing pitchers as they are now in shadow. Thankfully, there's now side shoots popping-up from the stem, close to the ground, so that's a relief.
I would love to interview you for you to explain us how you grow them in this kind of climat!
@@WindowsillNepenthes Haha! Maybe not now, though! I'm going through some pruning and cutting experimentation with my plant, because it's really getting too tall!
Sure!
Let me know when you are ready 😉
Thank you very much! This is very helpful 😊👌🏻✨🌱
Glad it helps 😌
Thanks for the test, very nice. Mine came from the store in peat/perlite but I want to repot in sphagnum/perlite, can I do this without isse or should I expect the plants to react/complain about this?
No issue as long as the roots are not disturbed. Check my rupture video as it was on peat moss ;)
@@WindowsillNepenthes will do, thanks!
Hi man
I have my plants outside can I use tapwater for misting
I have RO for watering the plants
To purchase a misting pump it’s a little bit too expensive but if I have to I have to
For sure you can use tap for misting. Maybe clean the leaves every little bit as minerals will build up on the leaves as water will evaporate ;)
Are you using live sphagnum moss? Would dry sphagnum moss work as well?
Yes, my mix is *dried sphagnum moss, perlite* and some coco husk (just because I have some but that's not mandatory). I top with live sphagnum but not more than 1 cm and it's also not mandatory. ;)
@@WindowsillNepenthes i have all that i use for my aroids except live moss. Thanks for the reply sir👍🏼
Friend! Awesome guide, saved it thank you!!! Im going to see your next videos
I like the way you talk it's kinda hearthwarming :)
I have some quick questions:
Can I put 1-2 cm leca thingie on the bottom of my nepethes tray?
and next would be can my tray be some plastic or glass container without a cover?
Id love to spray them and keep water in container but it worries me kinda, that humidity thing. I live in a house made out of wood insulated with polystyrene and on top of that at the first floor. The container would be pretty close to the roof like 20 - 30 cm and its literally planks. Do you know if this would affect them in a harming way to my house? these plants are awesome and id love to take care of them but not if it has to cost me my home :(
Nontheless you answer thanks again for awesome video!! Im going to watch more :)
Happy that you like it :) If the LECA is in the tray (not in the substrate) and you water from the top, the minerals will not be able to climb up and reach the roots. So yes it is possible.
For the humidity and the wood, it depends of the air-flow. The humidity son't damage the wood but if the water you are spraying touch the wood it will be a problem. I never faced this problem and that's just my opinion on that, but you leave in your house so trust your opinion ;)
@@WindowsillNepenthes Thank you for answer man!!
New subscriber here from the 🇵🇭. This is very informative!
Thanks and welcome to the channel!
Hi i got my nepenthes from the mail, but the leaves came yellow, and the tips of the leaves brown, what can i do to save my nepenthes? Thank you, love your videos
Keep it humid but no wet, with paint of light. It soup recover. ;)
@@WindowsillNepenthes thank you for this information and tips
I live in a really dry climate, although it’s near the ocean, it gets hot and dry in the summertime. I don’t have a greenhouse. I keep my nempenthes outside hanging in the shade. I mist my nempenthes with rain water when I have it, or distilled water, (never using tap water) twice a day in the summer. Once a day in the colder months. If I don’t mist them, they won’t produce pitchers and the existing pitchers will dry up. This time of the year (August), I’m watering every other day. Venus Fly Traps, I bottom water (with only distilled or rain water) and leave some in the tray for them to soak up in the hot weather. They feed themselves. I have so many pitchers growing off my nempenthes. I need to repot them soon because there’s one or two baby plants growing in their pots now. One of my plants is starting to fall out of the pot. Should I wait for dormant season to repot? I don’t know if I should separate the baby plants off the mothers. Does anyone have suggestions?
Hi Jodi, you don't have to remove the babies (basals) it's more for trade/sell or to prevent having a bush 😉.
And about Nepenthes dormancy... there is no such thing: th-cam.com/video/CTjXrJ3BiAQ/w-d-xo.html
Amazing knowledge thank you
How often do you water? I have the humidity at 85% to 90% in a grow tent and was wondering how many days i should wait to water
With super high humidity like that and if you have a well drained substrate, like 50/50 sphagnum/Perlite, I would water every 7-10 days. As long as the substrate is moist is good. ;)
@@WindowsillNepenthes thank you!!!! I'm a huge fan
Fantastic Plants.Have a couple o questions.1/ If a leaf gives off a Pitcher which becomes mature but dies, will it produce another pitcher or should i remove the leaf.2/ If a leaf changes color to reddish brown ,should i remove the leaf? Thankyou for any advice.
Only remove dead leaves ;) and if a leaf didn't produce a pitcher and the pitcher embryo dries then you can remove the whole tendril. But leave the leaf as it will produce energy.
Thank you for the video! Got a beautiful nepenthes in lithuania, the nepenthes in general is super hard to find here as is, the one I got is absolutely gorgeous. If I end up killing it idk if I'd find another in person lmao. Subscribes and now I'm binge watching the videos!
P.S; I'm from Canada, Quebec actually, and your accent is reminding me of home ;') best of luck to you!
Thanks 😊 If you have nepenthes questions or topics not yet covered, let me know and I'll try to do a video 😉
@@WindowsillNepenthes I do have one question but I'm not sure if it's video worthy lol
My Nepenthes has a basal shoot. Because of how hard nepenthes in general can be to find here, I wish to propagate it. However, I don't have space in my mini greenhouse to put it. Do you have any techniques to replicate a humid environment? Like taking a see-through plastic cup, spraying water in it and putting it upside down over the propagated basal sprout, or putting it in a ziploc bag, or anything else? Thank you!
@@HelgrafFireHammer I never tried the zip lock bag but an IKEA mini greenhouse would work
@@WindowsillNepenthes understood, thank you so much! 🤗
Excellent video! How often do you mist the leaves? I live in Israel where it’s warmer and drier than Canada, especially in winter. My Nepenthes grows indoors on my windowsill. I am contemplating if to mist it and how often.
Thanks!
I tend to mist morning + evening in week day and the afternoon in plus during the weekend.
How many nepenthes do you have on your windowsill? I'd love to interview you as you are in a very different climate. 😀
@@WindowsillNepenthes thank you Remy, but I'm just a begginer. So not much to interview about. Here in Israel there aren't really any growers selling plants. Most plants are imported from JM plants in the Netherlands, so we don't get much variety. I only have one plant at this time. Maybe I should order seeds online?
@@nachmuly Yes, seeds are a possibility. :)
I'll show you the results I got from the last seeds I got in my next video.
very helpful!!
Crazy how your Windowsill looks now🤯
I’ve noticed one leave on my nepenthes Veitchii has turned yellow and brown is that from overwatering?
Depends... Is that a new leaf or an old one? Did the condition where the plant was growing changed? Maybe check this old video: th-cam.com/video/VO15ssY1DIM/w-d-xo.html
I recently moved my huge nepenthes from my outdoor verandah because it's winter here into my laundry, it's warmer in there and it gets bright indirect light right next to the window most of the day when before it got no direct light but bright shade. It seems to be growing a lot of new leaves but still no pitchers. It's trying, I see the tiny little pitchers at the tips but they always go brown and turn into nothing. Do you know what might be wrong? It is a very large plant, very healthy looking, huge shiny green leaves, growing over the sides like a vine, I re-potted it recently in long fiber sphagnum and perlite, what I always use, it's very well draining and airy and I water it with rain water. I also try to mist it with distilled water whenever I go in the laundry, it stays nice and moist for about half the day if I mist it in the morning. I really don't know what more I can do, do you think because it's winter and quite cold that's causing the problem? My laundry is tiled and gets very cold at night, maybe around 5 to 10 degrees Celsius. I'm not sure of the variety, but it looked almost identical to yours in this video when it was that size and had the same kind of pitchers.
it's possibly adapting to it's new condition. If you still dont have any new pitcher in 2-3 leaves, then it may need more light with possibly more humidity. ;)
Good Job Bro 🤘🏽
Haha 😄 thanks
Hi I have a question. Will mold develop if I put my nepenthes in a 70x70x80cm greenhouse and maintain a 70% humidity?
If you don't have enough airflow it will.
@@WindowsillNepenthes my greenhouse has some little holes in it, Is it enough or do I need to put a whole ventilator inside?
@@Gbiobibibbhoe Usually is not enough. Depending of the size, a computer fan reduced at minimum speed (using a potentiometer) works.
@@Gbiobibibbhoe You can also have a regular small fan that is running 15 minutes every 2h.
@@WindowsillNepenthes can I put two mini fans running all day instead?
Really interesting video! I have a question for you: How do you collect rainwater?
I usually collect the rainwater from my gutter in buckets and then store them in cans :)
But this year I invested in a rain barrel.
It's a 50 US gal = 190L :D
Isnt rain watet contains mineral which not good for the nep?
Thats not winter for you yet, but I am worried for February coming in cold for all of us. Greets from Calgary Alberta
Great video's , keep it up
Yes, this winter is nice and warm. :)
@@WindowsillNepenthes 14C here today in Calgary with a possible rain/snow mix tonight.
@@DaremoAlpha 0 degree Celsius for today in Manitoba. But usually this time of the year it's more like -10 so I can't complain!
Can I use a Globe to water them
Like one of those globes that you fill with water and stick it down into the soil so that it's slowly Waters the plant for days
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Great Video and sympatic guy 👍
Your plants Look like very good 👍
My Nepenthes Macrophylla and platychila x lowii grow also very well, even without a terrarium and i do it just like you do.
I just have peat, perlite mixture with sphagnum planting, for the humidity.
Greetings from Germany :)
You grow N. macrophylla on a windowsill?! So cool!
Now I feel I'll have to try lol
@@WindowsillNepenthes Moin (hey)🙋♂️,
my nepenthes all grow on the windowsill.
i have the window open 24/7, so air circulation is guaranteed and we currently have a great climate for the plants in germany.
Sun in the morning and thunderstorms or rain in the afternoon at 25-28 ° and at night around 14 ° and high humidity.
at night i close my curtains and the window is open and this creates my own microclimate.
my macrophylla is also very small (Seedling (4-6cm ø) and i have had it for two months, it is growing super and forming new pitcher, just like my other two large nepenthes.
I could also send you pictures or a video so that you can convince yourself, but unfortunately it doesn't work here on youtube.😅🤷♂️
Best regards 🙋♂️🙂
@@ThePaul9519 contact me on Facebook ;)
When the tray is totally evaporated, do you water it or you wait like 2 or 3 days ? Because if I don't wait, my pot will always be sitting in water. I use perlite and long fiber sphagnum like you :)
Good point. I tend to wait 2-3 days. Now I raised the pots using crate so the water never touch the pots but it's right under.
Very Canadian statements: Not an inch, but at least 1cm.
Love the videos, thank you.
Could you say something about identifying nepenthes species?
I could try but it's difficult to ID a Nepenthes, especially with hybrids. ;)
We're neighbors I'm in northern Mn. Reason I asked is I have a female plant(nepenthes)and am interested in obtaining some pollen,thought knowing species would be useful.
How do you have so much rain water?
I collect and stock it, mainly in spring and fall (rain season for me).
I put buckets under my gutters 😆
Are you using live sphagnum moss here?
Only as top dressing. The substrate is 50/50 sphagnum/Perlite
I just purchased a nepenthes "lady luck," and re-potting it i see there are actually two plants in the pot. I suppose to make it look full. Should I separate them? Looking at the roots i see two separate starter pots!
You don't jacuzzi l have to. If you separate, you can trade it to get a second species tho. Like Gaya ;)
can nepenthes have peat moss and perlite?
Sure but do at least a 50/50.
Did you checked my video about the possible substrate?
Yes I watched it. I have my nepenthes in a 50/50 perlite peat moss substrate. I have it placed in another pot with water in it that evaporates to create humidity as well as I spray the leaves every couple of hours. I actually learned a lot from your video and that's what I have started doing. This is my first nepenthes and I want to take good care of it
@@monkeydigs6696 you spray every 2h?
What a commitment! If the humidity is around 50%, a morning and evening spray is enough ;)
@@WindowsillNepenthes :D
I thought every time the leaves dried out I need to spray them again. I have been a massive care bear to my new carnivorous plant. I finally started trying to take care of other ones then just a venus flytrap. I expect to not be great at this. This video really helped me, thank you!
What about coco peat
Never tried... Do you use it?
I think it's better than peat but will still need drainage.
@@WindowsillNepenthes yeah bro i am using it 100% cocopeat.. although it doesn't hold water for long, so no stagnantion of water... Tiny baby nepenthes are also growing from media
@@crucio3922 ok I'll try to get my hand on that then. ;)
My nepenthes are in an indoor greenhouse. Not much evaporation I don’t think because I’m using Grow Lights. I spray them about three times a day .If I leave for a couple of days, should I saturate the substrate or is it OK to use the water tray method? I don’t want root rot, but I don’t want them to dry out.
If you don't have high evaporation, they should handle a full week without water. They are resistant to a little lack of water, but not so much for over watering (root rot). Less is better than too much 😉 Just water them before you go
Hi manitoba! Miss you
I have the humidity for my nepenthes set at 80%. And I spray any tendrils with water as often as possible. Is that not necessary? Will they do just fine at 70%? . The light is the first most important thing I think, and then secondary is humidity for the pitchers to form, right?
With 70% or more, you don't need extra care for tendrils 😉 just give it good light.
How many times do I spray per day? I don't want to spray too much. I watered it too so the soil is moist.
It depends of your humidity... Do you have more than 50% or less?
Do you know how to clone them?
A real clone would be taking a cutting as it's 100% plant and yes, I know how.
if you are talking about tissue culture, from my understanding it's not really cloning as they use seeds.
Do you also grow ultra-highlanders like N.diabolica, N.argentii, N.aristolochioides etc.?
No... because they won't accept my windowsill temperature when they will be older.
Yeah I’ve left all my nepenthes in a half inch of water and I’ve never had any of them root rot. Tbf the pots are very tall
Are they lowland species? What substrate do you use?
@@WindowsillNepenthes I use sphagnum moss with perlite 50/50 mixture.
The nepenthes are all either intermediate or lowland. Mostly hybrids as well which are very hardy in terms of acclimation
I have my nepenthes sitting on a heat mat. I’m reluctant to try the water tray method because of potential root rot.
I was thinking of experimenting with having each of my pots sitting in a bowl filled with just a little bit of rain water so that the water would be barely touching the sphagnum Moss inside the pot.
Do this so I can leave for two or three days without worrying about them and I wanna try this so that maybe I don’t have to spray them every day like I’ve been doing
You have a tray full of water, yes. But the pots are raised above the water and don't touch it, so 0% chance of root rot ;)
can i water them with globes
With globes? I'm not sure to understand sorry...
@@WindowsillNepenthes the self watering globes that you stick down into the soil and the water drips out slowly and lasts for days
@@isamarsh2519 I don't know this item but if it only keep the substrate humidity and not soggy it should work :)
If the sides of my leaves are going from straight to kind of curling on my nepenthes gaya, is that from too much watering? I watered them a week ago and the pot is still kind of heavy. Or is it nothing?
It's stress. Could be overwatering yes, try to let it dry between watering ;)
Do you not have watering cans in Canada?
Sure I could use a watering can 😅, it's just that all my rain water is stocked on cleaned milk can (1 gallon) so transferring the water in a watering can is an extra step and I'm lazy ;)
@@WindowsillNepenthes just pulling your leg. I use a syringe so I know exactly how much they are getting. They are suspended in my windowsill so I can't have them in trays. I have a few small ones in saucers and I never worry if a bit goes through and into the saucer. I use RO water but as I have a water meter, I use only what I need. I also have a few Heliamphora on my windowsill, not in a terrarium but under lights. Humidity in my living room is about 50-60%.
@@adamkesingland968 You know what?
in France I had a medical syringe to fill the pitchers with Maxsea but here in Canada, I haven't found any yet (I haven't really actively searched). It is clearly quite practical.
@@WindowsillNepenthes can't get Maxsea in the UK. I just pop one Osmocote pellet in each adult pitcher as it opens. I do the same with my H. heterodoxa. I have even been known to do the same with Cephalotus if the pitchers are big enough. I have a couple of 50ml syringes. 50 ml of water is enough every other day for the hanging pots and about 30 ml in the 4-inch pots. All my sarracenia are at my sister's and live outside. My sister has rainwater and a south-facing garden, my VFT's and Darlingtonia are there too.
You feed them as soon as they open?
Because I believe it reduce their life span. I personally only feed the old ones. :)
Hey i have a question. Im keeping my nepenthes 3 types Bloody Mary,Gaya and Ventrata in a glass containers filled with decoration stones and water for humidity. And they stand on a window. Im spraying them once a day. Is it quite okay ? i just bought them ant they have low space from the jars wall like 2 cm free space. No trays water just goes down to the water in the jar and pot have no connection to that water.
Sound OK for the watering, but is your glass container open on the top? Because these nepenthes grow fast!
Later hen they get too big, you should be able to use a tray.
@@WindowsillNepenthes hey thx for answering and yes theyre open on the top and later on im planning to put them in aquarium but im gonba watch as they grow and make decisions :)
@@bersewrker88 Check your humidity first. They can adapt to 50% humidity and only need a water tray. These vines can outgrown any closed box ;)
@@WindowsillNepenthes humidity in room or inside those jars ??? :)
@@bersewrker88 In the room where the jar is. ;)
I would like to see if they could grow without the jar once they are too big.
I just have mine in a constant bowl of distilled water and its been growing perfectly. No root rot
From what I know, lowland nepenthes accept it and nurseries hybrids tolerate it. But as soon as you do that with intermediate or highland species it's dangerous. What hybrid do you have? For how long?
My plant turned brown and looks dead,Will it grow back?
If it's a few leaves it can come back, if it's the whole plant probably not except if you give it perfect care. Try to figure out "why" it turned fully brown.
@@WindowsillNepenthes Thanks.
@@nuttybar9 for the leaves turning brown: th-cam.com/video/VO15ssY1DIM/w-d-xo.html
starts 1:09
can I use filtered water? I got a nepenthes, the common commercial one you can get from big box store. It came with peat moss the growing medium.
For the peat moss it's better to repot because that's really compact (I have a video how to repot easily).
For the water, it will depend of the TDS (minerals inside the water), if after the filter you have under 100 TDS, yes it's good. ;)
What Nepenthes pages do you follow on redit?:))
I'm only posting on Reddit, not following. Not a big fan of this forum where people post a "help please" but never do a research for solution as the same questions come over and over. At least on regular forums modo can sort them and the knowledge stays accessible... but in Reddit the knowledge sinks in the post and nobody access it ever again. And I can't be everywhere TH-cam taking a lot of my free time. ;)
Good stuff but highly recommend a plastic cover for your Nepenthes.
Why? For the humidity? Some stop species will do just fine with 50% 😉
Yes for the humidity control it is key...When growing these plants you want consistent humidity and temperature. So yes some will grow but for them to be happy and flourish it takes similar conditions to the location they came from. With consistent humidity above 50% to 80% your Nepenthes will pitcher more rapidly, consistently and be a healthier plant overall. Happy growing!
@@billlumberg5746 Yes but you can also grow them nicely in "less perfect conditions". And a closed lid on a windowsill could do more harm than good if sun hit on it and cook the plants.
yes true you have to be careful with direct sunlight. Also would recommend a $30 grow light will help significantly. But you sound like you know what your doing so Happy growing Thanks.
@@billlumberg5746 You too know you're stuff 😉 . How do you grow yours? Windowsill or tent?
Need help on my pitcher can any one can help
To be able to help you, we will need way more information about your Nepenthes...
youre definitely canadian , you souynd like george saint pierre
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hahaha I'll take it as a compliment :D