If you want to raise potted nepenthes, it is nothing more than starting from the aspects of light, watering, humidity and substrate used, and the premise of maintenance is that there is a perennial warm environment at home, and it does not like too dry or relatively cold environments.
There are many varieties of Nepenthes, and the difference in conservation between varieties is also relatively large, which needs to be noted.
1. Choose the right variety
You can learn in advance about the species of Nepenthes you maintain, including the environment in which they originally grew (altitude at which they were grown), such as whether they were originally grown in lowlands, middlelands, highlands (altitude), or cross-bred.
Most florists are more suitable for raising low-altitude (lowland) Nepenthes species. As the altitude continues to rise, the lower the ambient temperature required for Nepenthes, the greater the temperature difference. Novices are more suitable for raising some hybrid varieties, and their tolerance to the environment will be better.
Nepenthes is more suitable for novices, including red bottles, black elves, Nepenthes Laurentia, Green elves, Miranda, Black Gems and Gaia.
2. The substrate of planting
Novices planting Nepenthes to choose a suitable substrate, it is generally recommended to use imported water moss (such as Chilean water moss), you can appropriately change a little perlite and desalinated coconut shell (you can also use plant gold stone and terrassite with breeding). The substrate of this cultivation is also relative to the common Nepenthes species on the market, which is what we usually call ordinary goods.
Potted Nepenthes generally buys some imported water moss directly, and it is no problem to buy better domestic water moss.
3. Container
The planting container can choose a relatively small plastic pot, but the bottom and sides of the pot should drill more holes to increase the air permeability, which can reduce the difficulty of maintenance, and the novice management of Nepenthes will have less trouble, which can reduce rotten roots and make its root system grow more vigorously.
4. Environment and watering
The third point is to maintain the environment of Nepenthes, in addition to ensuring that the environment is warm, the temperature should not exceed 35 degrees, not below 15 degrees.
In addition, we must pay attention to maintaining a high air humidity, the air humidity mentioned here refers to the ambient humidity, not the humidity of the planting substrate.
Some flower lovers will use the waist water method to maintain the potted nepenthes, that is, to soak the bottom of the pot in water, and use this method to maintain the pitcher plant, which has certain requirements for the ventilation of the environment. Conserve Nepenthes with soft water, such as rainwater, as much as possible. Use as little hard water as possible, such as tap water. Compared to other cordycep plants, its water quality requirements are not so high.
5. Humidity
If the air humidity there is less than 40%, then be sure to find a way to increase the humidity, you can put a large basin of water next to it, or put it next to the pool, fish tank, or you can open a small humidifier next to it. It is best to maintain the relative humidity of the potted Nepenthes at more than 60%, and if the ventilation is better, it can be maintained at more than 80%.
6. Slow seedlings
It takes a while for the novice to buy potted Nepenthes to adapt to the environment at home, which is what we call slow seedlings, so that we can raise Nepenthes better in the later stage, and we must have a house to have it. Speaking of this, old flower friends understand that they must be pruned.
From the Internet to buy home potted pitcher, after the hand can cut off some of the bottom of some old leaves, the cage to cut off, is to let its petiole stay half, we usually call the cage is its perverted leaves, we only need to cut its petiole half of it, so that it is to reduce the loss of water, let it quickly grow new roots, adapt to the new environment, if the air humidity is too bad, in the cool season can also give it a bag, but the edge of the bag do not directly touch its leaves, you can use some sticks to prop up.
7. Illumination
The maintenance of potted Nepenthes must avoid direct light, only need to give more than 3 to 5 hours of scattered light every day, must give soft light, can be through the glass or window screen of the sunlight, can also be scattered through the branches and leaves of the tree.
If the light is too intense, it will sunburn the leaves of Nepenthes. Some flower lovers will also use plant lamps directly, so it doesn't matter much.
8. Temperature
Maintenance of Nepenthes must maintain the right temperature, the minimum temperature in winter to maintain above 10 degrees is safer, of course, do not let the temperature fall below 15 degrees for a long time, if the temperature is often below 10 degrees, there will be serious frostbite, to find a way to keep it warm, such as using plastic film to make it a small greenhouse.
If you think that the above points are too troublesome to provide them with that kind of environment, it is actually not very suitable for raising Nepenthes, Nepenthes is more afraid of cold, if you just raise and play, it is okay to occasionally buy one or two pots of general goods.
Some of the florists' Nepenthes are unable to produce new cages, which may be due to insufficient humidity and light.