Nepentes

Growing features

1. Priming. Nepentes should be provided with a pot filled with commercial potting mix (for orchids). Self-preparation of the soil is allowed. This will require the following ingredients: leaf land (3 shares), peat (2 shares), coarse sand (1 share). To the resulting composition, the addition of moss, charcoal is practiced. Another option for preparing a substrate for nepentes involves the use of high-moor peat (2 shares), perlite (2 shares), vermiculite (1 share).
2. Watering. Nepentes likes moist soil, but too wet soil is contraindicated for him. Distilled water is used (rainwater, settled water can be used) at room temperature. The priority is the lower irrigation method (subject to the mandatory drainage of excess water). In hot weather, watering is done every 2 days. In the cold season, irrigation is performed weekly.
3. Top dressing. In the summer, the soil in a pot with nepentes is fertilized with a complex composition that is weak in consistency. Overfeeding can cause the flower to refuse to form "jugs". Do not forget that the predator needs food in the form of insects. Flies or spiders should be thrown into his "jugs" every month.

Nepentes home care

The nepentes predator flower is very capricious, demanding and fastidious in cultivation. To see your plant strong and healthy, it is necessary to create conditions suitable for its growth.

Seat selection

A very important point in growing nepentes is to find a sunny place for it. From the experience of flower growers: from the sunny, warm side on the bush, a large number of flowers - vessels, have grown, and on the other side of the bush - not a single one.

The best place for nepentes is the east window. The plant's daily intake of direct light should be at least three to four hours. And in the summer, the flower should be illuminated for at least fourteen hours, and in the winter - twelve hours using artificial lighting. But all the same, nepentes goes into hibernation in winter.

If the nepentes will be located on the southern or southwestern window sills, it must be shaded from the direct sun. From the stories of flower growers, it was from this location that the largest bushes with large jugs grew.

Nepentes in bloom

Nepentes blooms for quite a long time, forming a racemose inflorescence. To tell the truth, it does not look very impressive, but there is something original and unusual in it. Each extraordinary original "cup for the monkey" blooms for at least two months. As a result, the flowering of the entire bush lasts more than six months. With the approach of cold weather, the jugs lose their attractiveness and dry and fly away from the tree. The onset of spring brings an active change in the growth of nepentes. The pitchers grow back and delight their owners. And you can place nepentes on a hanging pot. It will look very original, because there will be more space for the jugs.

The nepentes plant is a big lover of warmth, bright diffused light, the sun and does not like drafts. The temperature preferred by the nepentes flycatcher must be kept between fifteen and thirty-five degrees.

Air humidity also significantly affects the growth of a plant; 40-70% humidity can be considered ideal. The nepentes plant must be watered with soft distilled water, not excessively waterlogged, but also prevent the soil from drying out.

Nepentes care for him must be fully performed, and in return we will receive a sea of ​​beauty and unique unusual charm.

Reproduction of nepentes

Growing nepentes from seeds is, in reality, a rather complicated process, almost impossible. Reproduction is carried out by dividing the bush or cuttings obtained from an adult, well-acclimatized plant. It is advisable to treat cut cuttings with a root formation stimulator, breeding conditions are greenhouse, high air humidity, temperature regime not lower than 25 degrees. The rooting process takes about 1.5-3 months.

Nepentes transplant

It is easy to buy nepentes in the store. And then you need to make efforts and skill for its high-quality content. An important role is played by plant transplantation. It can be produced after the plant has adapted (1.5-2 months) to the local living conditions and only if the roots are visible from the holes of the slide. When transplanting, the plastic pot becomes larger and the plant is rolled over, carefully adding the right amount of fresh, well-drained soil.

Pests and diseases of nepentes

With good care, plant damage usually does not occur. In the negative case, sometimes aphids or mealybugs can be found on it. To reduce the likelihood of pest infestation, it is necessary to regularly carry out prophylaxis, constantly inspect the plant. If a plant damage is detected, the flower must be immediately treated with special preparations.

Problematic points when growing nepentes:

• Nepentes stretches out, grows slowly, leaves are small, jugs do not appear - all these misunderstandings can be caused by a lack of lighting;
• The leaves of nepentes turn red, burns or brownish spots with dead particles appear - this is an indicator of an overabundance of lighting;
• The plant turns yellow - nepentes lacks nutrition. You need to feed the flower.
• The stem turns black, the leaves become wrinkled and drooping - excessive watering is on the face, as a result of which root decay may develop;
• The leaves of nepentes are covered with brownish and red spots - apparently the plant has undergone a fungal disease from excessive moisture. Fight the disease with fungicides.

And if you faithfully follow all the care recommendations, this extraordinary green predator will delight you and grow hardy and unusually beautiful.

Reproduction

Seeds

Propagated by seeds nepentes rarely. The difficulty lies in the fact that only freshly harvested seed material of two to three weeks of freshness is suitable for this. It is almost impossible to buy it in a store. And in order to get seeds at home, you need to have two copies of the plant - female and male Nepentes, which must be previously pollinated by midges or flies.

If you have overcome all these difficulties and obtained seed, your further actions will be simple: plant the seeds (without presoaking) in small containers with a mixture of sand and sphagnum moss, cover with glass or cling film (to create a greenhouse effect) and wait. The first shoots will appear in two months.

Cuttings

Cuttings suitable for propagation are cut from January to April. Suitable for planting the upper parts of shoots with 3-4 leaves (15-20 cm in length).

When making a cut below the last leaf, make sure that a small leg remains.

The cut cutting is placed in a solution of a root formation stimulator for half an hour, after which it is sprinkled with crushed activated carbon and planted in a prepared container with moist moss. The plant usually takes root for a long time, while it must be heated up in a mini-greenhouse or use a phytolamp to illuminate it.

Every day, the stalk is sprayed with warm water, two weeks after planting - with a growth stimulator Zircon (or any other). If the cutting has taken root after 2-2.5 months and has not lost its bright color, the process is going well. Nepentes can be transplanted to a permanent location.

Air layering

Thus, only liana-like species can be propagated:

• remove some of the bark at the most flexible part of the vine,
• press the cut part of the vine to the wet soil, strengthen,
• wait for the roots to appear in a couple of months and, having separated the cuttings from the mother plant, plant in a pot.

Root layers

This method is used when transplanting an adult plant. Remember - the roots of Nepentes are very fragile and easily damaged:

• rinse the roots in a container with warm water,
• with a clean, disinfected blade, cut off a part of the plant along with the roots,
• sprinkle the cut with activated charcoal,
• plant in a pot, water, sprinkle with water and leave to root.

Diseases and pests

Illness or pest infestation is almost always the result of a mistake in home care. Nepentes gets sick quite often. If the optimal conditions are not observed, then in a humid and warm environment with insufficient light, gray rot infection can begin. It also occurs when water has been in the cup holder for too long. In this case, diseased plants must be removed.

Withering is an indicator of too little water and low moisture levels. Hence, the plant needs to be regularly sprayed and watered more frequently.

Uncharacteristic spots or blotches on the leaves may indicate too much sunlight. It is better to choose a bright, but not sunny place, and then nepentes will soon recover.

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Nepentes - home care

Many plant species are capricious. Therefore, caring for a nepentes requires meeting the conditions for keeping a tropical plant.

Illumination and temperature conditions

The best place for a plant is a south or west window. A bright but diffused light is required. Therefore, direct sunlight is excluded. In a similar situation, nepentes are shaded.

When choosing windows facing east or west, you need to provide additional lighting, especially in the autumn-winter period. Nepentes is a tropical plant, so ideal conditions assume that daylight is maintained for 14-16 hours.

The temperature for growing a thermophilic plant is maintained at 22–25 ° C throughout the year.

Attention! For the normal development of the nepentes flower, the room is constantly ventilated, but you need to make sure that there are no drafts and cold air flows

Watering rules and humidity

Like any tropical plant, the flower prefers abundant watering and high humidity. The soil is constantly moistened, but liquid stagnation must be excluded.

Watering is carried out with settled water, at room temperature. The best watering liquid is rain or melt water. The pot must have a drainage device. In winter, they water less often, but they monitor the state of the earthen coma so that it does not dry out.

Nepentes is sprayed only until the jugs appear. If this rule is violated, water gets inside the jug, leading to changes in the digestive fluid. As a result, insects die, but are not digested, but rot inside the traps. In this case, the flower does not receive organic matter.

To increase humidity, use a pallet with pebbles or peat

Depending on the type of nepentes, the humidity varies between 40–90%. If necessary, it is increased thanks to a pallet with wet pebbles or peat, and the foliage is carefully sprayed with water.

Feeding nepentes than feeding a plant

For feeding a mature plant during the growing season, use mineral fertilizers with a low nitrogen content. They are fed twice a month.

For foliar dressing, a remedy for orchids is used, but the dosage is reduced by 3 times. Sprayed twice a month. Do not let the solution come into contact with the jugs, and only moisten the leaves.

Organic feeding

Organic matter is brought directly into the jug. It could be a fly, a mosquito, or a butterfly.

The procedure is carried out carefully so as not to overflow the liquid from the trap. If this trouble occurs, add distilled water in a small amount

But it is not recommended to place insects there.

Transplant and size of the flower container

The predatory nepentes is transplanted once every 2 years. If the rhizome grows rapidly, transplanted annually. The procedure is carried out in the middle of spring, by the transshipment method.

Attention! The taproot of the nepentes plant is quite fragile. When transplanting, you should protect it from damage.

The soil is purchased in the store. Orchid soil is a good option. More often, the soil is made independently from the following components:

• sphagnum moss;
• coconut fiber;
• crushed pine bark;
• peat;
• quartz sand;
• perlite.

The components are taken in the ratio: 4: 3: 3: 1: 1: 1. The contents are mixed and disinfected in the oven for 20 minutes at a temperature of 200 °.

The nepentes is transplanted into a pot 30 mm wider. The bottom is covered with expanded clay or pebbles. This is followed by a small amount of prepared soil, where the roots are immersed. The rest of the soil is laid in a circle around the roots, compacted and mulched with moss.

Flower pruning and winter dormancy

Pinching and pruning are mandatory procedures for crown formation. The first pruning is done when the sixth sheet appears. Long loops and shoots are removed, supports are installed. Their flower will twine around.

From early October to February, nepentes is dormant. At this time, the flower is not watered and the feeding is reduced.

Additional Information! A sufficient indicator of humidity at the stage of winter dormancy is 50%.

Diseases and pests of nepentes

Diseases of nepentes

In some cases, red or brown specks may appear on the foliage of homemade nepentes. This suggests that he is affected by a fungal disease, the development of which is provoked by high humidity of the air and soil mixture. To cure the affected bush, it is treated with a fungicide solution.

Due to excessive watering, rot may appear on the root system. In a diseased plant, the foliage wrinkles and loses its turgor, and the stem is also blackened. Also, due to excessive moisture, foliage can also rot. As soon as signs of rotting are noticed, transplant the flower into a fresh disinfected substrate, while all the affected areas are cut out from it with a sterilized sharp instrument, and the places of the cuts are sprinkled with powdered charcoal. If the bush nevertheless begins to die, then cut off healthy cuttings and plant them for rooting.

If the foliage turns yellow, this means that the vine needs feeding. When sunburn appears on the leaf plates, they change their color to red. If nepentes suffers from excessively bright lighting, then specks of a brown tint with necrotic areas form on its foliage. And in the case when the bush does not have enough light, it becomes very elongated, and there is also a slowdown in its development, shrinking foliage, and the cessation of the formation of jugs.

Pests

Despite the fact that this plant is insectivorous, mealybugs and aphids can harm it.

Worms feed on plant sap, sucking it out of young foliage and shoots. Because of this, they begin to grow more slowly. In order to prevent the appearance of this pest, the bush should be moistened and washed in a timely manner, and also do not forget to cut off the dried leaves. If worms appear, remove them with a cotton swab or swab moistened with a solution of soap, beer or alcohol. Then the bush should be sprayed with a solution of an imidacloprid-based product for 1.5 months at intervals of 1 time in 1–1.5 weeks.

As long as there are few aphids on the bush, it is difficult to find them.It is located on the seamy surface of the foliage, due to which it becomes covered with dew and turns yellow. In addition, this insect is the main carrier of incurable bacterial and viral diseases. To get rid of pests without harming the nepentes, it must be washed with a solution of potassium soap (20 g per 1 liter of water). Make sure that soapy water does not get into the soil mixture. You can replace green soap with regular household or dishwashing detergent. You can also treat the bush with low-toxic agents, such as: Biotlin, Decis, Antitlin or Karate.

Plant nutrition

Catching insects

A jar of nepentes is filled with digestive fluid, and sweet, fragrant nectar flows down the walls. In addition, its top is covered with a "lid". The insect climbs into a jug to feast on nectar, slips, falls into the digestive fluid and drowns, especially high-spirited specimens prevent the lid from getting out. Prey is digested in 5-8 hours. Often, mice, birds and amphibians act as victims of nepentes.

Feeding the nepentes

Symbiosis

Large species of nepentes have entered into symbiosis with mountain tupaya - these not-so-small, squirrel-like animals use the plant as a toilet when they eat sweet nectar. The structure of the toilet sheet is reinforced and the rim is not slippery. The animal eats nectar, and the plant uses its excrement as food.

On Kalimantan there is a species of nepentes and a species of bats that have entered into symbiosis - bats sleep in trap leaves, and the plant receives their parasites and excrement as food.

Mountain tupaya uses nepentes as a toilet

Almost all species of nepentes and species with an undetermined status are listed either in the Red Book or are on the list of species that are threatened with extinction.

Nepentes Bottled is a ground cover plant and grows mainly in peat and heather bogs.

Nepentes Beskolyuchkovy is an epiphyte of moss forests in the foothills of Sumatra.

Nepentes Bubble - its lid does not close completely and it feeds not only on insects, but also on leaves that have fallen into the "jug".

Nepentes Kirkazonovy can be an epiphyte or a terrestrial plant. Its trapping leaf looks like a Kirkazon flower or a Dutch smoking pipe.

It is very rare and interesting, for which it enjoys increased attention from collectors.

Nepentes Hairy grows higher than other relatives - its habitats are located at an altitude of 2400-3200 m. The edge of its hunting "jug" is jagged.

Nepentes Raji - his "jug" can hold a liter of digestive fluid and digests lizards, frogs and rats. Local residents collect these "jugs".

Local residents are collecting "jugs" of Nepentes Raji

Varieties of nepentes

The plants below are most often found at home.

Nepentes Winged or Alata

An attractive predatory vine with four-meter stems and light green, sessile leaves.

Grown indoors as an ampelous flower. Nepentes Alata is distinguished by a variety of jugs of different colors, 18-25 cm high.

Nepertes Winged (Alata) is a predatory vine with colorful jugs

Nepentes Raja

A huge carnivorous plant with large jugs. Each of them holds 3.5 liters of water and 2.5 liters of digestive fluid.

Large, brownish-burgundy traps creep along the ground and, in addition to insects, hunt vertebrates. The height of the jugs is about 40 cm, the diameter is 20 cm. They are located on thin flexible combs. Rajd's leaves are green.

It is interesting! Nepentes Raja can "eat" even a small vertebrate animal.

Nepentes Rajda - plant appearance

Nepentes Hookeriana

A hybrid named after the botanist Joseph Hooker, who compiled a detailed description of it.

The plant is used for home cultivation.Under comfortable growing conditions, suitable temperature and humidity, having passed the initial stage of development, the flower will show itself from its best sides in the future.

Nepentes Jug

Prefers a swampy climate.

There are no special requirements for the content. It develops well at home.

Nepentes sanguinea

It is developing rapidly. The leaves are evergreen, glossy.

The jugs are medium in size, up to 20 cm high, in adults they are much larger. Traps of different colors and shades.

Indoors, flowers are hung in pots, which causes the jugs to hang down. Proper care ensures a long stay in the home.

Nepentes is grown at home as an ampelous plant

Diseases and pests of nepentes

Diseases of nepentes

Sometimes the leaves of nepentes are covered with brown or red spots, which is a sign of a fungal disease that develops against the background of increased moisture in the soil and air. To treat a plant from infection, treatment with fungicidal preparations is used. If the stem of the nepentes turns black, and the leaves wrinkle and wither, then you water it too often, and its roots rot.

Why do the leaves of nepentes rot? For the same reason - due to excess moisture

Try to save the flower by removing it from the substrate, carefully cutting off rotten organs and areas with a sterile tool, treating the sections with crushed charcoal and transplanting the plant into a new sterile substrate. If it was not possible to save the nepentes, root as many cuttings as possible, and it is quite possible that after a while you will grow new nepentes

Leaves that turn yellow at the wrong time indicate that the plant lacks nutrition, and if the leaves turn red, then it is likely that this is a consequence of sunburn. Brown spots with necrotic areas on the leaves indicate that there is too much light for the nepentes, and the plant stretches painfully from insufficient lighting, but at the same time its development slows down, the leaves grow small, and the jugs are not formed.

Nepentes pests

Among insects, nepentes damage aphids and mealybugs. Worms suck juices from young shoots and leaves of the plant, which slows down their growth. To protect nepentes from the appearance of worms, remove dry leaves in a timely manner and keep the plant clean - wash and spray it, because the worms do not like moisture. If they do appear, remove them mechanically soaked in beer, alcohol or soapy water with a cotton swab or ear stick, then treat nepentes with an imidacloprid-based preparation for six weeks with an interval of 7-10 days between sessions.

Unfortunately, aphids are found on plants even when the harm caused by them becomes obvious - the colonies of the pest are located on the underside of the leaves, which are covered with honeydew and gradually turn yellow. In addition, aphids carry viral and bacterial diseases for which there is no cure.

The most harmless way for plants to get rid of aphids is to dilute 20 g of grated green potassium soap in one liter of water and wash the plant with this solution, remembering to protect the substrate from soapy water. Laundry soap or liquid dishwashing detergent can be used instead of green. Of the chemical preparations against aphids, Antitlin, Biotlin, Karate and Decis, which have low toxicity, are effective.

Predator rearing problems, diseases and pests

Nepentes pests are rare. More often, the plant is sick due to improper care.

Growing problems:

• Fungal diseases appear against the background of errors in watering and high humidity. The disease is determined by brown spots on the leaves. For treatment, treatment with fungicides is carried out.
• If the leaves turn yellow and fall off, the problem is insufficient moisture or incorrect temperature of the content.
• From an excess of liquid, the roots and leaves rot, and the stems turn black. To save the flower, they take it out of the pot, cut off the decayed roots or leaves.The sections are sprinkled with crushed coal and the plant is planted in a new pot with a sterile substrate. And to get a new nepentes, cuttings from a plant are rooted.
• In insufficient light, the jugs slow down in growth or stop forming.
• With defective soil, in which there is only peat and moss, a disease called chlorosis begins.

Nepentes at home

Important! Sterile tools are used to trim rotting leaves and roots to prevent infection from entering open sections. Among pests, aphids and mealybugs dominate the culture.

Insects are removed with a cotton swab soaked in alcohol (60%)

Among pests, aphids and mealybugs dominate the culture. Insects are removed with a cotton swab soaked in alcohol (60%).

Only with the correct maintenance of the flower, regular care and inspection, an interesting tropical plant will grow, attracting others with its unusual appearance and methods of survival.

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Short story

The nepentes predator plant was first mentioned in 1658. It was then that the governor from France, Etienne de Flacorte, traveled to Madagascar. He was very amazed at the very strange appearance of this flower. The following description of nepentes is already mentioned in 1680. It was compiled by an adventurer and avid traveler from Germany named Jacob Brain. However, they still did not understand that the flower feeds on insects.

Karl Linnaeus first began to study nepentes. It was he who named the plant Nepenthes in honor of the ancient herb of oblivion called nepenth, which is mentioned in Homer's Odyssey. Tradition says that the queen of Sparta received the plant nepenth from the Egyptian queen. She gave it to Telemachus (the son of Odysseus) so that all sorrows and misfortunes would disappear from him. There is some truth in this legend, because nepentes was previously even used as an alternative to opium.

Guernia care at home

Lighting

In summer, the western and eastern windows are ideal for the plant, it can also grow in the northwest. But on the south window, the guernia must be shaded in summer: it feels good in diffused bright light.

And in winter it is better to rearrange it to the south window, during this period shading is not required.

Temperature

In summer, the plant tolerates temperatures up to 26 degrees, if the heat rises above 30, then the guernia is already experiencing discomfort and with a further increase in temperature it may die.

Watering

In the summer and spring, it is watered sparingly, only after the soil has completely dried out; in the fall, watering is noticeably reduced, and in winter it is almost completely stopped: it is enough to slightly moisten the soil in a pot once a month.

Guernia tolerates drought better than excess moisture.

At the end of May, they begin to make monthly top dressing with any fertilizer for cacti.

The soil

The soil is made up of one part of sod, leafy, humus soil and coarse-grain sand, adding crushed charcoal and a little lime there, if the soil for cacti was bought in a store, then you still need to add coal and lime there.

Dormant period

In mid-autumn, the plant begins to prepare for a dormant period by reducing watering and moving it to a cooler room with a temperature of about 14 degrees.

Transfer

Guernia is transplanted every year. It is better to produce it in the spring.

The plant needs rejuvenation, as the stems begin to die off after a few years.

Reproduction

Guernia propagates easily by cuttings. The stalk, separated from the trunk, is dried in air for two days, after sprinkling the cut site with crushed activated carbon, then planted in the ground, slightly deepening and placing a small support for the first time. After a month, the stalk takes root and begins to grow.

The plant also propagates by seeds, which are placed on sandy soil in wide bowls. It takes a month for the seeds to germinate.After the seedlings grow one centimeter, they are transplanted into small handfuls, no more than 6 cm in diameter.

Diseases and pests

The main enemies of guernia are root rot and mealybugs.

When signs of rot appear, the plant is removed from the pot, the roots are cleaned, dipped in a weak solution of potassium permanganate and planted in a fresh substrate. When a worm is found, the same actions are performed and the plant itself is treated with an insecticide according to the instructions.

Guernias rarely get sick, but sometimes suffer from defects in care.

Dark burn spots may appear if exposed to direct sunlight during summer. They are carefully cut out and sprinkled with crushed activated carbon.

With a lack of lighting or nutrients, the plant stretches and loses its decorative appearance. The treatment consists in eliminating the cause: the guernia is fertilized, exhibited in a well-lit place.

This small exotic plant will take up very little space on the windowsill and will not cause unnecessary trouble. And watching it grow and bloom can be a lot of fun.

Reproduction methods

Growing from seeds

Growing indoor nepentes from seeds is easy. However, it is almost impossible to get quality seed material. And buying from an unverified seller is also dangerous, as you can spend a lot of money on seeds of a perfect other plant.

And the difficulty of growing nepentes from seeds is that they lose their germination rather quickly (after 15–20 days). However, if the seeds are high quality and fresh, then your chances of growing nepentes will increase dramatically.

Take a small plastic container with drainage holes and fill it with moistened sphagnum moss, which should be thoroughly rinsed and microwaved for 2 to 3 minutes to disinfect. Take the seed and spread it evenly over the moss surface. Water the crops from a fine spray, after which they are placed in a plastic box and covered with a transparent lid on top. This will help maintain the required high humidity.

Remove crops in a mini-greenhouse, which is placed under phyto-lamps. Arrange daily ventilation for crops, and do not forget to regularly measure the humidity and air temperature, which should be at 90-100 percent and 20 degrees, respectively. After the seedlings appear, they need to be provided with the same care as for the seedlings of other exotic plants. However, it is necessary to adapt the seedlings to the conditions of your apartment for several weeks.

Seed nepentes

Cuttings

It is much faster and easier to propagate such an unusual plant by cuttings. For example, for rooting, you can use the pieces left after the spring pruning. Ideally, there should be 3 leaf plates on the handle. Shorten them by two-thirds. At the apical cutting, the small upper leaf plate does not need to be removed.

The lower part of the cuttings is kept in Kornevin's solution for half an hour, after which the cuts are powdered with coal, crushed to a powdery state. Take a small container, which should be thoroughly rinsed with bleach, then rinsed with distillate. Also, for planting cuttings for rooting, you will need a special soil mixture consisting of 2 parts of sphagnum, 3 parts of coconut fiber and 5 parts of peat, and a little vermiculite is also added to it. Disinfect the resulting mixture, moistened with distilled water, in a microwave oven for a quarter of an hour.

Dip the lower part of the cutting into the substrate at least 0.5 cm. After that, gently lightly compact the soil mixture around it and water it with distillate. The cutting itself is treated with a Fundazole solution from a spray bottle. Then the container with the handle is covered with a transparent cap (transparent bag, glass jar, etc.).After that, she is placed in a well-lit and warm (about 23 degrees) place. After a couple of weeks, spill the soil mixture and treat the stalk from a spray bottle with a solution of Zircon (for 200 milligrams of distilled water, 2 or 3 drops of the product).

Cuttings take root for 4-6 weeks. However, after a couple of weeks, it is already possible to evaluate the result: if the cuttings have given roots, then they will have new sprouts with jugs, and if the segments have darkened, then they can be thrown out. Only 1 year after rooting, you can carefully transplant the flower into a permanent pot using the transshipment method.

Nepentes Ventrata: cuttings, bush formation, rooting and growth of a young plant.

Dividing the bush

For reproduction of nepentes, the method of dividing the bush during transplantation is also used. But be extremely careful, because the root system can be severely injured, as it is very fragile and delicate. It is necessary to divide the bush of this liana in the same way as with other plants.

general information

The nepentes flower (pitcher) is a predatory plant. He consumes mainly insects for food. In the wild, nepentes is found mainly in acidic soil on peatlands, that is, in places where there are few nutrients. But the plant survives in this environment. This was made possible thanks to the sheet of the jug. It has a special element designed for fishing:

• Zhukov;
• mosquitoes;
• midges and other insects.

The pitched leaves of the plant are rather large in size and produce a special nectar that attracts small creatures to itself. Sitting on a leaf, insects cannot stay on the wax surface and fall to the very bottom of the jug. They begin to actively rush about, provoking the activity of special digestive glands inside the jug. They synthesize decomposing elements that can completely digest an insect in a couple of days.