I bought 4 carnivorous plants to combat the fruit flies trying to attack my fermenting homemade wines and also for pest control for my other plants. They all came in 2 inch pots so maybe they’re just small and slow growers? I don’t know a lot about carnivorous plants
I have an American pitcher plant (the big one), a hanging pitcher plant (all of the pitchers dried up so I cut them off), a Venus fly trap, and sundew plant. The Venus fly trap and pitcher plant have had a lot of heads/leaves turn colors and die…
My setup:
Basically took a small seeding tray and lined the bottom with dry leca, set a small pot in the corner for a water reservoir, topped the leca with peat moss + perlite, put the plants in their little spots, then covered it all with a sphagnum moss+perlite mix.
Distilled water (pictured) and I fill the little water pot to keep topped off every other day, or when I notice it lower than an inch from the top. In a west-facing window facing an alley on the 2nd floor. My direct sun trees seem to enjoy the light so I don’t think that’s the issue.
Please help!
by Aggravating_Owl5735
3 Comments
Ingredients:
Vapor Distilled Water, Calcium Chloride, Magnesium Chloride, Potassium Bicarbonate
Well you mixed temperate and tropicals, and you mixed plants that like being perpetually wet with plants that don’t like being perpetually wet.
The setup is fine for plants that below there, but your nepenthes does not belong there.
Edit: the leca in the bottom will probably kill all of them in 3-6 months.
take the nepenthes out and also you’re gonna need a lot more light