My project is to show how people grow their nepenthes on windowsill
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Dogrem
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Thanks Lloyd, I will focus only on that the next 6 months and see.
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I have those exact same shelves and have been trying to find a good way to attach my lights to them! Thanks for the vid
wishing you well
Dogrem
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Hi all, Here is the video of the week: How to Grow Nepenthes on a Windowsill in Montreal - Windowsill Nepenthes Growers Interview 15
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That was my last video in stock, see you all probably in 6 months. Have a great day and stay safe guys.
#nepenthes, #windowsillnepenthes
That was my last video in stock, see you all probably in 6 months. Have a great day and stay safe guys.
#nepenthes, #windowsillnepenthes
Apoplast
Carnivorous Plant Addict
I am sorry you have stopped posting your video uploads here. I am dipping my toe back into the waters of CP growing thanks in part to your videos. I suspect you have not seen your channel grow as much as you might like, but I wanted to let you know it is doing good! If not doing as well as you might hope. Indeed this time, I will be trying to grow Neps on my windowsill. So, thank you for all you do!
Dogrem
Carnivorous Plant Addict
Yes, I'm working now on another side hustle, but I'll continue posting once a month
Here is the last one:
A Better Fertilizer for Nepenthes? (counterintuitive at first, right?)
Have a great day and stay safe!
Apoplast
Carnivorous Plant Addict
Did you know that Drew from Carnivero uses cricket flour as a food for his neps? Apparently, the digestive enzymes of some neps (according to him, I've not looked up the papers, and thus do not have a reference to post as support - take that for what it is) are stimulated by the presence of chitin. I can't believe that cricket flour is not readily commercially available, but it is and I'm going to give it a go. It'll be interesting to see the results.
A local high-end food store had cricket flour. Bloodworms should also have chitin. You could also use any insect or crustacean (shrimp/crab/lobster shell).
Ertiocx
Carnivorous Plant Addict
I recall a couple papers that show how chitin and insect prey induce digestive enzyme expression/secretion, such as this one https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4970371/ and this one https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00425-018-2917-7 (paywalled, see attached pdf)
Interesting reads, although the second paper does note protein and ammonium are more potent than chitin alone, but in any case I like to feed my plants with both soluble chemical fertilizer and black soldier fly meal.
Apoplast
Carnivorous Plant Addict
Why BSF meal? I'm not challenging you, just curious. I'm familiar with their benefits for herps largely because they have greater calcium availability than most feeder insects. But I don't typically think of Ca as limiting for CP.
I've done poorly with powdered foods on pings and many dews in the past. They brest results I found where from sprinkling my live collembola on them. They loved that! As long as it wasn't too many at a time. Then is seemed like it lead to indigestion.
I find freeze dried blood worms are good but only cover a small area of the newer dewy leaves. Fungus gnats are perfect.
Ertiocx
Carnivorous Plant Addict
No particular reason, the fish food flakes I have (Northfin bug pro) just happen to be made from BSF and seem to work well. I also use soluble salt fertilizers on my plants so the fish food is just there for a little something extra in case the proteins/fats/chitin are able to improve anything.