good morning YouTube welcome back again this is a second video I'm doing for the day I might be the first video I put up I don't know how anything is going to go but today I wanted to talk to you about Nepenthes pitcher plants I get a lot of questions on how to care for these guys what am I doing wrong - sick - dying line isn't picturing well today I wanted to do a video and just cover some of the care on Nepenthes picture plants what you're looking at here is one of my first Nepenthes picture plants I got it probably five years ago maybe even less I haven't been them keeping them that long I don't consider myself an expert on them this is a Nepenthes sangria and it has done beautifully I bought this guy as a small little seedling probably out of tissue culture and it has grown from there into the plant you see beside you so it normally doesn't hang here but there was a hook and this is working perfectly for filming so here we are they have beautiful pictures good size to them nice pretty looking things they have properly spots inside with age they tend to get a little bit redder almost and when they come out they look sort of like this they're just sort of a fuzzy little thing now this is just an extension of a leaf all this is this isn't a flower this is just a modified leaf and these guys I find very very easy to care for I started with these guys as secondary to orchids just because they take the same sort of care as an orchid does same sort of temperature is same sort of lighting if you can take care of an orchid you can take care of one of these guys now just like orchids they're going to come in different temperature ranges so you need to research on Google you need to find the name of the plant that you I'm having in front of you or that you're thinking of buying and make sure you can care for that one appropriately they are some are a little bit forgiving this guy here for example he could probably grow on my windowsill he can grow out here in the greenhouse he could grow in warmer climates and cooler climates I give this guy summertime daytime temperatures are up around 85 Fahrenheit for your other folks that's probably 29 Celsius these guys get winter lows of 52 53 for you Celsius folks that's probably 12 or 13 and they love they're called the Highland Nepenthe they grow in the mountains and the tropical regions of Asia in that so they love the nighttime drop in temperature it just it does them so good this guy hangs up high for the wintertime he hangs up high anyways they don't need it tons of light you can see from him hanging high even here in the fall he's got sort of a red tinge to his leaves that's okay in the summertime I bring him down to a much lower level sort of at knee or waist height because he just doesn't need that much light he's not like a Vanda orchid where he needs tons and tons of light but direct Sun isn't bad for them at all as long as you're not cooking them I try to grow all my depends he's as bright as possible and I look for this reddening on the leaves to see if they're getting enough light so lack of light is the number-one reason these things don't picture and as you can see I think pretty much every leaf for me always pictures because they they have the right light and as a bonus in the last couple years it's actually started growing some some basil shoots at the bottom so the plant is turned from one vine because these are actually a vine turn from one vine into three as for the potting media it is in mainly specna moth mix very easy mix to make up there's a bit of perlite a bit of orchid bark in there never let the implant dry out although it's in a hanging pot it's actually in a pot in the hanging pot at the time I didn't have room for the hanging pot so it's living there now sort of pot in a pot as for maintenance on these guys they tend to be really low maintenance sometimes the pitchers will dry out I leave the pictures on there until I can't stand looking at them anymore and when you can't stand looking at them that's the time to cut them off this guy loses very little leaves I see there's one dead leaf way deep in there now that I could probably cut off I don't cut off the leaves until they've gone completely brown if you can see that can I bring that around maybe there it is okay you can see that on camera now so that leaf I could safely cut off the other ones that are starting to yellow they take months and months of slowly yellowing before they actually turn and there's one picture that didn't make it usually when the pictures don't make it if you know you have enough light it is going to be a lack of humidity that that makes them not want a picture so I have my trusty spray bottle here just below yeah and what I normally do for these guys while they're growing is this picture here I will spray it with water and I'm going to spray that picture and here's another picture that's not quite forming yet and there's another one that's not quite forming you don't have to soak the whole plant but I always spray the pictures that are starting to grow and it gives them a little bit of extra humidity there's another one up high it gives them just that little bit of water and it seems to really really help there for a while I wasn't getting many pictures on there but soon as they start of spring them with the this is just dumb tap water and soon as I started spraying them with that it really it was like magic so if you have a plant that is not picturing for you spray it with water now like I say if you continually spray the plant down and you're drenching it every day or three times a day you could get mold issues you could get if you got water in the crown it could potentially rot you don't need to media becoming super soggy that's why I'm kind of selective and I will spray the pictures this is much easier to do on a bigger plant like this when you have a little tiny baby plant I'm really hesitant to spray them but at least several times a day like I would this because I don't want the crown rot but you know when the Crown's up here and you're spraying a foot away and you're just getting the tip of the leaf huge huge help with picturing so as for water as I say I never let it dry out sometimes I will this water like this I just use pure water with it as for feeding them they take very little food actually the odd little earthworm in there or the odd little bug I find around these guys in the greenhouse will catch their own food as well and I put them outside it's amazing they catch tons of food tons if they're in the house a good one would be like frozen bloodworms it's a fish food that you can get it like a specialty fish store like aquarium store they work well from there don't feed them hamburger nothing like that now these guys are a tropical plant they don't need dormancy they would love the same exact conditions all year long they generally grow around the equator and although there are mountains and they get cooler up there it is the same condition they don't have seasons so they like the same conditions all year long other things to note this guy for example he's a very Hardy plant he takes the very wide range of conditions now I'm going to take you around the greenhouse we'll do a little tour of the Nepenthes and I'll continue to talk while we on tour I'll show you some other ones that are really easy to grow and I'll show you some that you should probably avoid until you've at least mastered these guys okay so let's start the tour here with a couple warm growing or lowland Nepenthes there's two in front of you and both love it warm and one as I say this is where you can pick and choose your Nepenthes to suture conditions better this first guy here is a raffle sienna beautiful lowland Nepenthes he likes it warm very warm he would love 85 to 95 degrees every day and 70 Plus every night now if he doesn't get it he is going to be okay he might suffer a little bit slowdown in growth in pout but he's going to generally be okay here's a new picture about to open as well he's less fussy than this guy here now this is my little Baikal kurata it's the little fanged guy I love him a lot this guy although very easy to grow if you live in the tropic is very hard to grow here in Canada he needs it hot he likes it hot he will not only pout but he will suffer if the temperatures go below 70 degrees for very long so if you're choosing between these two and you're not confident that you can keep the temperatures really hot for this guy go with the raffle Siena there because he's a lot more adaptable than the baikal so those are I don't have many lowlands they live in a chamber there they're heated much hotter than the rest of them but I just want to give two examples that um that would potentially work for you say if you're growing in an aquarium in the house and you know that it's not going to get below 70 degrees all right the other thing to note is hybrids tend to grow faster than species so this is a hybrid here this is the Nepenthes Miranda you can see a picture about to open and another picture in the moss and another one here and all of these pictures down here they're good sized picture this is a beautiful plant it is super easy to grow this is when this mass produced you can find it in garden centers and Home Depot and that sort of thing it's in a big pot all of these little tendrils here I spray them I try to spray them daily in order to keep the picturing doesn't mean I soak the plant by spray the tendrils it's very humid in here as it is but I still continue to spray the tendrils to make sure I have good picturing like down here there is so many pictures down here they're thick this one is just opening here you can see but there's other ones here that are coming so I spray them that is a secret it's a vining one it's very tall being it's a hybrid it grows really really fast and there are some upper pitches up there here's another example one that I'll be spraying every time I have the sprayer out he gets sprayed it vines along this way as well look at this one it is it's on a hook but the hook is movable see I just have it on the hook it they twirl around it because they're vines but so I just leave him there here's a couple more uppers you can see they kind of a dewy nectar on them on the bottom that's to attract the insects up the rim and so leave fall in and here's the latest one curling around the shelving now if you live in the house that picture is probably not going to make it but if you spray it with water you're going to have a much better chance of having that guy make it very easy one it's called the minute Pentheus Miranda I really recommend it this guy here was my other first one I got it at the same time as I got my sanguis Anna there that we were just looking at this is a venture cosa tubby little pictures on it cute little things good coloring to them they don't get as big but that's okay this guy he's vining now he's got a few extra shoots on him the upper picture is at the back here much more dainty here's one of the new ones that started opened he's a good size for an upper he's instead of sort of the ready color he's a lot more cream and anyways the upper pictures get I just sort of spray up there and get all the tendrils wet and even down here now again this guy is very Hardy there's a good-looking line right there this guy is very Hardy easy to grow you could probably grow in a windowsill a very wide range of temperatures same with them Miranda we just looked at and if we go down here behind this stick here you're going to see some pictures back there and this is another hybrid is my other hybrid that I have that Tom is sort of the basic ones I learned with all of these ones I just I learned with so this one is event rata nice little pitches on them very smooth nice right colors one beside is even more of a green color and it grows really really really fast this guy sometimes forget to spray with water because he grows so fast anyways there's some upper pictures and another one about to form there he's probably good seven or eight feet long in many different vines so I just had to let him fine around the greenhouse he's growing in front of the air conditioner now and up he grows really really fast so if you're looking for a fast grow one that's really easy hard to go wrong with that is a vent Rada now if a growing them in the house may not picture for you because of the lack of humidity usually when people talk about them not picturing they say it is due to a lack of light which is true but what they don't say when the light increases so does the heat and as the heat increases like in a sunny window the humidity plummets so you have to keep the much moister the brighter they are the moisture they need to be and it seems like other than the media being moist down there it's just the tendrils himself that need to be moist this little fuzzy guy here if he was him come on focus are you gonna focus he's not going to focus but he's a fuzzy tendril I'm not sure why he's not focusing there we go that guy could dry out easily in direct sunlight if the humidity was low but all of those guys that I've showed you so far take a wide range of temperatures and very very easy to grow and let's look at a few that maybe I'm aren't going to be so easy to grow on a windowsill this one is a macro filer or macrophylla he gets huge giant plant giant pitchers he's a species he has a pretty select temperature range he needs and if it's not met he will eventually um sort of slow down and die this guy being a species does not grow feet per year he's going to take years to get big what else do we have here this guy is one of the hardest ones that I find to grow that is a bullosa the Pentheus Veloz i doesn't look like much now but he's going to be very very toothy very very um beautiful plant very very select temperature ranges this guy needs to get down to I bring them down to about seven Celsius every night and or even a bit colder and only up to about 75 80 max in the daytime and for the most part although they're out for now because they're under the lights here that aren't on because I'm filming he lives in my modified freezer over there so that he needs it so cold he can't even grow in my Highland greenhouse he needs it colder so I have a few the Llosa's that live in there they're doing quite well there's some seedlings he's growing quite fast for a villosa but again he's not going to grow feet per year he's going to take years to get big and over those years if you mess up once then that can be the end of your plant there another one that people like and I'm going to bring him down because he's hanging here where can I put him right over here this is a Nepenthes Hamada they're very toothy very famous for their teeth beautiful plant takes normal heiling conditions I you know I've heard of people growing them on their windows else I wouldn't be growing him on my windowsill but if you have no other choice it kid has been done I do again spray the pictures as they're developing you try not to spray them the crown right there as much as I can help it keep them the medium moist but no Matta is a really nice one and I find although it looks like it should be really challenging it really doesn't seem to be at all this plant here I've had for about a year and it has it's ten times bigger than when they got it again not like a hybrid it's not growing feet per month but you know it's got lots of pictures on it it never misses a picture in here and the pictures and the leaves keep getting bigger so it's a good sign that was why we call a very happy medium pretty easy to grow not super hard to grow at all but would be more of a challenge if you couldn't get the nighttime temperatures down the last one I'm going to show you here is the pen thise bongs o2 makes black one almost with a big Paris dome again very similar conditions to the Hamada so they're just hanging there you can see it's quite bright its moist up there I put quite bright and that's where he's going to stay for the winter time but anyways that's going to be it for our Nepenthes 101 today I hope you like this video and if you want to see more videos like this make sure you subscribe to my channel as always thanks for watching