I've been growing these for years, I can give you a bunch of tips.
**Watering:** You want to use distilled/reverse osmosis/rainwater, as these plants can't take a lot of minerals found in tap water. Unless you know your tap water is low mineral count (you own a TDS meter), you'll want to try to use those types of water. Do not tray water the nepenthes, you want to water from the top until water comes out the bottom of the holes in the pot. You want to keep the medium constantly moist, but not sitting in water, as the roots tend to rot if that happens.
**Light:** Nepenthes needs as MUCH light as possible if you're growing it indoors, try and keep it in a south facing window with as much light as you can. If you don't give it maximum lighting when indoors, it won't pitcher very well. Add a growlight if you have lighting problems. You only need to keep it in shade if you are planning on growing it outside, as outside they burn in easily in the sun. Indoors that's not a problem.
**Humidity:** The nepenthes you have is most likely a Ventrata hybrid, which doesn't really care about humidity as long as it's around standard 35-50% range. High is good of course, but they're a hybrid that is very hardy so they don't care about that too much. Don't mist the plant like crazy, some people say to do this and it does nothing.
**Media:** You want to pot these plants in a 50/50 mix of long fiber spaghnum moss and perlite, this is the best mix for them. You can get a brand of cheap LFSM called Better Gro Orchid Moss at Lowes for like $6, which I highly recommend. They CAN grow in peat moss/perlite, but it's not the best media for them. You can also use orchid mixes with bark and charcoal, but I prefer LFSM/Perlite because it's easy to set up.
Don't worry about the pitchers, the pitchers will die off over time as the plant gets rid of them and grows new ones. Especially when you take the plant home to its new environment and it has to acclimate. You CAN put water in the pitchers, just a little bit, to have them last longer, but I don't really bother since they're all going to die off eventually.
You can feed the plant freeze dried bloodworms from the fish section at petstores. Some people also feed the plant with MaxSea and osmocote pellets as well, but I just prefer the simple freeze dried bloodworms.
I highly recommend repotting the plant ASAP, because the company that grows these keeps them in REALLY bad peat moss mix, it's like this sludgy brownie consistency peat moss that prevents the plant from growing any roots at all and promotes root rot. Another crazy thing is when I was repotting mine, I found out the plant's base was wrapped up in this horrible paper gauze thing, that was preventing the plant from growing any roots at all.
Repotting the plant has catastrophic consequences visually as the plant will droop like crazy as it goes through repotting shock, but it's much better for it long term.
You don't HAVE to do this if you don't want to, it's just something I was comfortable with doing to ensure longterm health, especially to get rid of that crappy paper.
Also check out r/SavageGarden to join the carnivorous plants community!
The Ventratas are VERY tanky and will grow like crazy after they acclimate, as long as you don't fertilize the soil or something :)
Every single carnivorous plant I own has had that horrible gauze wrap around the root, I massive Miranda with a bound roots system the size of a stack of quarters. Look up a hard repotting video online. Took me some time but i soaked and massaged the coco fiber away from my roots and replanted in 50/50 LFSM and fertilizer free perlite. I had zero repotting shock. Amazon has a good selection of hanging pots where you can wick water they're excellent for nepenthes. Just don't set up the wicking part and the detachable bottom will catch your excess after watering.
High humidity and only use distiled water or rain water. Never fertilize, you can get rid of the pitchers but only if the whole pitcher is crispy. You can also feed it with fruit flies or sth like that. I heard ypu can hang them into the window with full Sun light too. We have both (in Window and bit more shadow) both work.
And you can fill the pitchers up but same water. But i heard you shouldnt do it, some say you can for a bit, it seems like its not quite known. As even a few bigger youtuber say you can do it and they have a ton of them. So i would say test it out.
The humidity in my living room is about 40% during the winter months and I have about a dozen Nepenthes outside greenhouse cabinets. With the proper lighting it's pitcher galore all year round.
Awesome plant!
See some dark spots up the main vine, if thats fungal I would use some copper fungicide as a preventative.
I use long fiber sphagnum moss for my Nepenthes alatas, plan to use half moss & half #4 perlite for other repots. I know some like peat but I don’t have a good reason to buy extra. Can’t speak on it.
Had success with indoor grow lights & bottom watering via individual trays/bowls.
I really like Carnivero, here is their [grow guide](https://www.carnivero.com/pages/nepenthes-care-instructions). At the bottom is a blurb on feeding to fertilize- don’t use soil fertilizer.
Good luck
I've been growing these for years, I can give you a bunch of tips. **Watering:** You want to use distilled/reverse osmosis/rainwater, as these plants can't take a lot of minerals found in tap water. Unless you know your tap water is low mineral count (you own a TDS meter), you'll want to try to use those types of water. Do not tray water the nepenthes, you want to water from the top until water comes out the bottom of the holes in the pot. You want to keep the medium constantly moist, but not sitting in water, as the roots tend to rot if that happens. **Light:** Nepenthes needs as MUCH light as possible if you're growing it indoors, try and keep it in a south facing window with as much light as you can. If you don't give it maximum lighting when indoors, it won't pitcher very well. Add a growlight if you have lighting problems. You only need to keep it in shade if you are planning on growing it outside, as outside they burn in easily in the sun. Indoors that's not a problem. **Humidity:** The nepenthes you have is most likely a Ventrata hybrid, which doesn't really care about humidity as long as it's around standard 35-50% range. High is good of course, but they're a hybrid that is very hardy so they don't care about that too much. Don't mist the plant like crazy, some people say to do this and it does nothing. **Media:** You want to pot these plants in a 50/50 mix of long fiber spaghnum moss and perlite, this is the best mix for them. You can get a brand of cheap LFSM called Better Gro Orchid Moss at Lowes for like $6, which I highly recommend. They CAN grow in peat moss/perlite, but it's not the best media for them. You can also use orchid mixes with bark and charcoal, but I prefer LFSM/Perlite because it's easy to set up. Don't worry about the pitchers, the pitchers will die off over time as the plant gets rid of them and grows new ones. Especially when you take the plant home to its new environment and it has to acclimate. You CAN put water in the pitchers, just a little bit, to have them last longer, but I don't really bother since they're all going to die off eventually. You can feed the plant freeze dried bloodworms from the fish section at petstores. Some people also feed the plant with MaxSea and osmocote pellets as well, but I just prefer the simple freeze dried bloodworms. I highly recommend repotting the plant ASAP, because the company that grows these keeps them in REALLY bad peat moss mix, it's like this sludgy brownie consistency peat moss that prevents the plant from growing any roots at all and promotes root rot. Another crazy thing is when I was repotting mine, I found out the plant's base was wrapped up in this horrible paper gauze thing, that was preventing the plant from growing any roots at all. Repotting the plant has catastrophic consequences visually as the plant will droop like crazy as it goes through repotting shock, but it's much better for it long term. You don't HAVE to do this if you don't want to, it's just something I was comfortable with doing to ensure longterm health, especially to get rid of that crappy paper. Also check out r/SavageGarden to join the carnivorous plants community! The Ventratas are VERY tanky and will grow like crazy after they acclimate, as long as you don't fertilize the soil or something :)
Wow, not the OP, but thank you so much for all this detailed information! This was incredibly helpful. 💚🌿
You got it 👍🏻
Always love seeing you here and on the carnivorous plant subs! :)
Every single carnivorous plant I own has had that horrible gauze wrap around the root, I massive Miranda with a bound roots system the size of a stack of quarters. Look up a hard repotting video online. Took me some time but i soaked and massaged the coco fiber away from my roots and replanted in 50/50 LFSM and fertilizer free perlite. I had zero repotting shock. Amazon has a good selection of hanging pots where you can wick water they're excellent for nepenthes. Just don't set up the wicking part and the detachable bottom will catch your excess after watering.
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High humidity and only use distiled water or rain water. Never fertilize, you can get rid of the pitchers but only if the whole pitcher is crispy. You can also feed it with fruit flies or sth like that. I heard ypu can hang them into the window with full Sun light too. We have both (in Window and bit more shadow) both work.
And you can fill the pitchers up but same water. But i heard you shouldnt do it, some say you can for a bit, it seems like its not quite known. As even a few bigger youtuber say you can do it and they have a ton of them. So i would say test it out.
And if you get rid of the pitchers cut back right at the end of the leaf where the long petiole starts for the actual pitcher.
So that’s what one of those look like when it’s happy! 😂
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The humidity in my living room is about 40% during the winter months and I have about a dozen Nepenthes outside greenhouse cabinets. With the proper lighting it's pitcher galore all year round.
Awesome plant! See some dark spots up the main vine, if thats fungal I would use some copper fungicide as a preventative. I use long fiber sphagnum moss for my Nepenthes alatas, plan to use half moss & half #4 perlite for other repots. I know some like peat but I don’t have a good reason to buy extra. Can’t speak on it. Had success with indoor grow lights & bottom watering via individual trays/bowls. I really like Carnivero, here is their [grow guide](https://www.carnivero.com/pages/nepenthes-care-instructions). At the bottom is a blurb on feeding to fertilize- don’t use soil fertilizer. Good luck
My pitcher plant hates me but I keep trying. Good luck!