The pitcher plant cage is dry, and the leaves are starting to dry out, can I cover it with a plastic

Hello! The pitcher plants on the market are mainly Nepenthes huashi (Nepenthes red-bottled), and they are all enlarged by hormones, so it is not normal for the cage to be large. After buying back, the hormone pitcher plant needs a period of time to get rid of hormone interference, and it is easy to have symptoms of sluggish growth at this time.

If more suitable conditions cannot be provided at this time, then the light will not be caged, and the stem will be lignified at high speed and die.

First of all, let's understand what environment Nepenthes prefers. Nepentals are native to the tropics and prefer moist and mild conditions. The native soil lacks nutrients, so the roots are not salt-tolerant and fragile and cannot be fertilized in the soil.

The medium must never be left water-free but it is not advisable to accumulate water, the medium must be acidic and low in salt (so the average soil will only make it die faster), and the sun should be abundant but not direct (especially in the midday sun).

Therefore, it is necessary to provide the environment as described above to slow it down (called acclimation). Humidity is required to be 80%+ during acclimation, which can be achieved by bagging and stuffing. Sunlight should be bright but not direct, otherwise the greenhouse effect will wilt the pitcher plant.

Because it has been stuffy, the medium will not dry too quickly, and the watering should not be too diligent, just master it yourself. In addition, it is necessary to breathe regularly to prevent the growth of fungus.

It is also very normal for the old cage to wither, and only the cage raised by yourself is the most valuable.

Yes, it is normal for pitcher plants to wilt in cages, and they will wilt once every 2 to 3 months. A leaf can only grow one cage, and when it withers, it will grow again. However, in the case of an unsuitable growth environment, the cage will wither in advance, so it is necessary to pay attention to the appropriate light temperature and proper watering.

Nepenthes has strict requirements for water, and the watering time should be strictly controlled, not too dense and not without watering. Just keep the soil as moist as possible. As for the watering time, you should water twice a day, once in the morning and once in the evening, and remember not to water at noon.

The cage of the pitcher plant cannot be filled with water. It secretes its own natural mucus, which kills mosquitoes and digests and absorbs. The cage withered does not mean that the plant also has a problem, there is no big problem, just like a person loses a hair, even if the cage of the pitcher plant is the healthiest, the most suitable environment will wither in two or three months.

Precautions for raising pitcher plants:

1. Pay attention to humidity, if the humidity is not high, it can only be raised as a foliage plant.

2. The temperature should be between 15 and 30 degrees, too low to frostbite or freeze to death, too high to rot roots or heat to death.

3. Pay attention not to fertilize, the cage is to catch insects to supplement nutrients, and it is useless to fertilize the cage.

4. Medium and water, soil is best mixed with peat + perlite or pure water moss, and pure water and rainwater are used for water. Don't use mineral water.

You need to hold one-third of the water. If there are a lot of cages, only a few of them are dry, and that's fine. Is birth, old age, sickness and death? But a large area is dry, that is, there is a lack of water. Spray plenty of water. That's how I raised it, and I hope it helps you.

In recent years, pitcher plants have become one of the most popular flower varieties in the flower market. Many people like to buy a pot to keep at home. However, it is a tropical insectivorous plant.

It prefers hot and humid environments. Once the temperature drops below 10 degrees Celsius, it is easy to get frostbite, but a high degree of air humidity is required. Therefore, how to moisturize pitcher plants is a major problem in pot maintenance.

So, should pitcher plants be covered in plastic bags? Is the moisturizing effect good? The gardener uncle of the hanging bottle plant thinks that it is feasible to cover the hanging bottle plant with a plastic bag for moisturizing, but the requirements for the plastic bag are also very high.

You can't use black plastic bags, and you can't use thick plastic bags. It is best to use a white, thin and transparent plastic bag or plastic wrap to ensure that the pitcher plant is exposed to light and moisture. Nepenthes can be covered with plastic bags to keep them moist and airtight.

It should be noted here that the pitcher plants we buy from the flower market are generally the red bottle pitcher plants, which are a type of pitcher plants that are cultivated with hormones. Its cage is large and not very natural. Generally, after buying it back, it is easy for the cage to become smaller or not form a cage, or even the stalk to die due to high-speed lignification.

Be sure to pay attention to domestication, create a suitable environment for it to slow down, and wait for it to adapt to the new one. Although pitcher plants prefer hot environments, they should not be exposed to the sun all the time. At noon, it should be properly shaded, or placed in a sunny place that will not be directly exposed, and the humidity should be kept above 80%.

Ventilate it regularly to prevent fungal growth, so that after a period of maintenance, Nepenthes will gradually adapt to the new environment and begin to grow normally. Potted pitcher plants on the windowsill [Tips] Although pitcher plants like humid environments, they should not be too wet, otherwise they will rot. If you are watering, wait until the surface is a little dry before watering.

You don't need to water it a lot. The pitcher plants in the flower market are mostly red pitcher plants, which are highly adaptable. When it adapts to the environment, it can slowly reduce the humidity.

Nepenthes likes cultivation media with good drainage and air permeability, and the commonly used cultivation media are peat soil, coconut fiber and some large-particle cultivation media, which are usually used in a combination of these cultivation media. Water moss is also a common cultivation medium, however, water moss will have the problem of rancidity, usually after half a year to a year must be replaced. Therefore, moss is more suitable for the cultivation of cuttings or seedlings.

The cage of pitcher plant is commonly known as the insect trap bottle, the bottle mouth has a cover, can be opened and closed, the domestic has basically lost the insect trapping function, the bottle (cage) does not need to be irrigated, as long as the environmental temperature and humidity are suitable will grow well.

The insect trap of Nepenthes consists of a cage body and a cage cover.

The cage of Nepenthes has a smooth bottle mouth, and when the insect approaches, it will slip and fall into the bottle, drown by the liquid secreted by the bottom of the bottle, and decompose the nutrients of the insect body, and gradually digest and absorb them. In layman's terms, only when the mosquito flies into the bottle and is stuck to the liquid it secretes, drowns and finally absorbs it to complete its insect trapping characteristics, it is not that it can actively catch insects.

Nepenthes insect traps do not need to be filled with water.

The main purpose of planting pitcher plants is for ornamentation, and the focus of the viewing is her insect trap - the "cage", which is brightly colored and strangely shaped, and is a very delicate and wonderful insect trap tool, which has a high ornamental value. Different species, the shape of the cage is different, even the same tree can grow two different forms of cages, generally grow in the lower part of the cage is fatter, rounder, larger, called the lower cage or lower cage, growing in the upper part of the cage is longer, thinner, inclined to funnel shape, called the high cage or upper cage. The mouth edge of the cage is turned outward, and there are smooth grooves that extend to the inner edge of the cage mouth, which can act as a guide when the insect slides down.

The upper part of the cage has a canopy to prevent rain or other debris from falling into the cage, and to block the light from the upper part, confusing the insects that fall into the cage so that they cannot find an exit. There are also some pitcher plants, such as Nepenthes ampullaria, which have a narrow and long top and turn outward, so that the cage mouth can receive bird droppings and rainwater falling from above, and the natural evolution is really amazing! On the opposite side of the cage cover, there are often two parallel wings that extend from the cage mouth and converge downward to the bottom of the cage, and its function may be to facilitate insects and other small animals to climb from the bottom of the cage to the cage mouth, which is part of the whole perfect "death trap".

There are a lot of small insects, mosquitoes and the like in my pitcher plant, and I am wondering whether to change the water, but I don't need to change it after reading the replies of netizens, I just need to add water.

It has to do with external conditions. If the temperature is high enough, it will secrete more mucus and its life activities will be more vigorous. If you want to see it eating insects, you might as well catch a mosquito or two and put it in and observe it slowly.

Wait for it to catch mosquitoes on its own, and your house will have to be full of mosquitoes to have that probability.

Hehe! Of course, you don't need to release water! How can it be so easy to catch flies and mosquitoes! If it's so magical, why do you need its mosquito and fly killer products? Wait a few more days!

Don't let the water go and you'll die. Only small worms will eat when they fall on it, and they will not catch them.

The cage of the pitcher plant cannot be filled with water. It secretes its own natural mucus, which kills mosquitoes and digests and absorbs.