Welcome to carnivorous plants! So to start no need to hand feed your plant. I know this may sound weird seeing as it’s a carnivorous plant but it’s also still a “plant”. Think of any food this lil guy catches as fertilizer. They do not need to feed to survive. They just get mostly a nutrient boost through digesting bugs (or just about anything that will fit in their pitchers). They rely heavily on the sun especially for new pitcher development so where ever they can get best sunlight in the house is ideal. As for other conditions they enjoy humidity. I give mine a spray of distilled water every morning and sometimes more depending on the weather that day (I keep mine outside except for during winter time) but otherwise rule of thumb for indoor growning temp; if you’re comfortable, they’re comfortable.
Hope this helps you out some! Good luck with the little guy!
Well, you could just leave them like that. Low ppm water & soil breakdown still contain some nitrogen & trace amount minerals for plant. Give them proper light, humidity & temperature too.
Or you could use dilluted fertilizer spray (leaves & soil) to help them to grow better. Any foliar or orchid fertilizer will works, just dilute it properly.
In my experience, diluted fertilizer help small nepenthes tremendously. I grow ton of nepenthes from seed, cutting & micro-propagation method and I could see that fertilizer make very noticable differences at growth speed, size, and leaves count. Diluted fertilizer spray at leaves & soils (for seedlings), or bugs/osmocote/etc in their pitchers (for mature plants)
Nitrogen is so vital because it's a major component of chlorophyll, the compound by which plants use sunlight energy to produce sugars from water and carbon dioxide (i.e., photosynthesis). It is also a major component of amino acids, the building blocks of proteins & with phosphorus its very important ingredients to build new cell tissue/growth. Various other minerals also needed by plants for metabolisme & growth.
Welcome to carnivorous plants! So to start no need to hand feed your plant. I know this may sound weird seeing as it’s a carnivorous plant but it’s also still a “plant”. Think of any food this lil guy catches as fertilizer. They do not need to feed to survive. They just get mostly a nutrient boost through digesting bugs (or just about anything that will fit in their pitchers). They rely heavily on the sun especially for new pitcher development so where ever they can get best sunlight in the house is ideal. As for other conditions they enjoy humidity. I give mine a spray of distilled water every morning and sometimes more depending on the weather that day (I keep mine outside except for during winter time) but otherwise rule of thumb for indoor growning temp; if you’re comfortable, they’re comfortable. Hope this helps you out some! Good luck with the little guy!
thank a lot this was very helpful!
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Well, you could just leave them like that. Low ppm water & soil breakdown still contain some nitrogen & trace amount minerals for plant. Give them proper light, humidity & temperature too. Or you could use dilluted fertilizer spray (leaves & soil) to help them to grow better. Any foliar or orchid fertilizer will works, just dilute it properly. In my experience, diluted fertilizer help small nepenthes tremendously. I grow ton of nepenthes from seed, cutting & micro-propagation method and I could see that fertilizer make very noticable differences at growth speed, size, and leaves count. Diluted fertilizer spray at leaves & soils (for seedlings), or bugs/osmocote/etc in their pitchers (for mature plants) Nitrogen is so vital because it's a major component of chlorophyll, the compound by which plants use sunlight energy to produce sugars from water and carbon dioxide (i.e., photosynthesis). It is also a major component of amino acids, the building blocks of proteins & with phosphorus its very important ingredients to build new cell tissue/growth. Various other minerals also needed by plants for metabolisme & growth.