Hi all,

I’ve been looking into fertilising nepenthes and see a lot of people using maxsea which has a NPK worth of 16-16-16, i sadly dont have maxsea available to me but i have found an orchid fertiliser with an NPK of 3-2-5.

So my question is do i go for a higher concentration of said orchid fertiliser for my neps compared to what people do with the maxsea because of the lower NPK ratio?

Any help is help is truly appreciated

Hello, i recently bought a couple pings about a week ago and im awaiting their arrival and i need help figuring out a soil medium for them. I want to make a ping rock so ive already bought the lava rock, peat moss, and perlite. Ive heard that silica sand and aragonite sand is safe but i havent really been told what brands to stay away from in that section. I couldnt find silica sand so i bought "aragonite sand" and it comes from the company "Caribsea" so the bag is called caribsea aragonite. Idk if this is safe for pings or not and i need help figuring this out before my plants arrive😭

I’m pretty new to plants, and I see all these posts with pretty flower pots with the inner plastic pot so it’s self watering from the bottom. Do you purchase the inner pot first or at the same time. I know this is stupid but I’ve lost a couple of plants already and I really don’t want to lose anymore. God I sounds so stupid. 🤣🤣🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️

Every so often I’ll keep stumbling across weird looking types of sundew(drosera) I had never seen before online. But when you look them up, is almost seems as if nobody is actually selling them. Or they’ll list a rare type for sale but turn out to have none in stock when I go to their site. Is everyone just hoarding their sundews or something. I want to find a reputable seller of rare, lesser known or cross types of sundews. Any tips?

Edit: I currently reside in Texas. So preferably sellers that could reliably ship here without too much issue.

Anyone have any recommendations? I am planning on getting a couple of these https://a.co/d/eYJzx7V would these be good for a variety of carnivorous plants? Any help is appreciated

I'm assuming this is probably a case of low light? But can anyone say for certain. I've not seen a capensis put out totally different leaves like this before.

I just got some Nepenthes. The brightest place I can grow them is in my outdoor windowsill that gets direct sun from 6am to 11 am. I'm worried that the pitcher embryos will get burned from the heat (Even in December the temp in my windowsill is still 30c day long) .

I'm new to growing Drosera and have been endlessly fascinated by the pygmy sundews. Gemmae season is starting and I bought a couple easy growing species from someone on FB. They arrived today and OMG I knew I needed glasses but holy crap these things are tiny. They would be considered extremely tiny SEEDS but they are freakin ENTIRE PLANTS.

Got two 4 inch pots from each packet - even managed to get them fairly evenly distributed in the last few pots. Manipulating those tiny little green dots was not easy.

Freshly planted gemmae for Drosera pulchella, pink flower

Some gemmae were already sprouting and growing leaves/roots!

Keeping them in a tote for higher humidity. The seller said he grows gemmae in normal house humidity. I figured for my first one I'd give them all the extra help.