The Ultimate Nepenthes Care Guide - Beginner Setup

[Music] hey guys I'm Dominic ravine here at red leaf exotics where we love growing Nepenthes as the carnivorous plant hobby grows more and more people want to grow these beautiful plants indoors but they don't know how well today I'm gonna show you just how easy it is using a 10 gallon aquarium and a grow light I have my 10 gallon aquarium a great size to start off with because you can fit a couple plants in here and they can actually grow in here for a while before you need to upgrade to a larger tank the first thing I would do is put some plastic pots in here upside down this is going to hold my plants up out of the water which we will be adding to the bottom of the tank later and it will also suspend their pitchers beautifully the next thing I'm going to do is add some water saucers to the top of my pots mine up end these will sit in these and when I water them it will collect the water and keep the tank a little cleaner now my favorite step we're gonna add our Nepenthes to the tank look how good this already looks oh my god again this is so easy so simple anybody can do this and like I said it's what I would do and wish I knew when I was getting my first into pentas look how nice that looks I am gonna add some water to the bottom of my tank and what this is gonna do is add some really nice humidity to the inside of tank which Nepenthes love and need to grow well and produce these beautiful pictures if you just receive your plants you want to give them a little bit of water so that you see it running out of the bottom of the pot and just filling up the tray a little bit you do not want them standing in water evenly moist is key so you do want the water in the saucer to evaporate in between waterings my tank is looking great and one of the final and most important steps is your light source you're gonna need an artificial grow light I don't suggest keeping terrariums in full Sun or a window because you can cook your plants I am gonna magically reach into the forest and pull out a grow light most full-spectrum grow lights work well this is a 600 watt LED system I'm going to pop this on and look at how great this instant Nepenthes jungle you want to keep this on 10 to 14 hours a day and your plants will thrive with this light make sure to miss your plants often to keep the humidity high and you want to feed them live or dried insects roughly once a month to keep them super happy and this is all it takes to grow Nepenthes right at home [Music]

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Length: 2min 42sec (162 seconds)

Published: Sun Feb 23 2020