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Yesterday I acquired my 8th nepenthes which I will probably kill, just like the 7 that came before it.
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Yesterday I acquired my 8th nepenthes which I will probably kill, just like the 7 that came before it.


This one's getting hose water, let's see what happens.

by itsbedeliabitch

17 Comments

  1. Ausmerica

    If you’ve killed seven and still haven’t begun to understand how to care for them then I don’t have high hopes for number eight.

  3. Decapod73

    … what? Getting the nursery varieties (ventrata, Miranda, St. Gaya) to grow beautiful pitchers takes skill and care.

    Keeping them *alive* is very easy. I don’t understand how you could be killing them.

  4. DabbyBear

    Unless you have a thing for killing plants, hose water is not a good idea. These plants thrive off of water with little to no mineral/salt content – which your tap water likely has. Rainwater or distilled is the only thing you should be using. Not sure how you killed the other seven, but as someone in a more difficult climate for neps, I have found them to be one of the easiest plants to care for. A lot of highland neps prefer a 10-15F drop in temp from day to night and very high humidity. This looks like a standard nepenthes alata which I also have and they are not as finicky as some of the rare highland neps…

    For the species I have (indoor), they prefer their media to always be moist. I mist their soil daily and put osmocote in their traps monthly (based on age/size) and less often during the winter. Large neps get 4-6 pellets (total) and younger neps get 1-2. I get traps pretty consistently but as I said, they’re indoors so I’m not getting tropical temps and humidity. There may be a chance you’re also giving it too much direct light.

  7. ffrkAnonymous

    > This one’s getting hose water, let’s see what happens.

    I feel like you’re not even trying to keep them alive.

  8. HoochieMamma

    What exactly is happening to them? Did they all die with the same cause?

  10. skyhighaero

    Maybe it’s your water. Use only rain water, reverse osmosis, or distilled

  11. sharksrReal

    I see you’re in Florida which has very hard mineral water. I suggest distilled water. 8th one is the charm!

  13. External_Macaroon687

    For me, this plant is the definition of thriving off of low maintenance neglect. When I remember to, I water it with tap water. It regularly grows cups for me.

  15. Spirited-Visual-3205

    People in plant subreddits really don’t like humor.

  17. grayczyk

    Since you’re in Florida, it’s worth mentioning if you are on well water, that hose water is probably still not great, but not nearly as bad as some people are thinking.

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