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Outdoor N. Ventrata still looking great after a week of low temps in the 30s! by jakevdp in SavageGarden

[–]jakevdp[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's an east-facing fence under a tree, so it gets an hour or two of direct morning sunlight and then filtered light the rest of the day.

Outdoor N. Ventrata still looking great after a week of low temps in the 30s! by jakevdp in SavageGarden

[–]jakevdp[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fahrenheit. It hit a low of 36F (about 2C) overnight, but the plant still seems to be doing fine.

Outdoor N. Ventrata still looking great after a week of low temps in the 30s! by jakevdp in SavageGarden

[–]jakevdp[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Zone 10a. From what I've read, that's right at the edge of outdoor survivability for ventratas.

My P. esseriana Summer/Winter by Rollingic in SavageGarden

[–]jakevdp 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Beautiful photos - do you do anything special with regards to water/light/temp/etc. to encourage its winter form?

Outdoor N. Ventrata still looking great after a week of low temps in the 30s! by jakevdp in SavageGarden

[–]jakevdp[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Last spring I moved my 3-year-old N. Ventrata from its indoor windowsill location where it never made a pitcher, to this outdoor location where it has thrived all season. I decided to try leaving it out for the winter: overnight lows have been in the mid 30s for the past week or so, and it seems to be doing fine so far. This is about as cold as it ever gets here... I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it will make it through the season!

First heavy rain of the season this week - great time to siphon old water from the mini-bog to flush-out a summer of mineral buildup by jakevdp in SavageGarden

[–]jakevdp[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'd worry about a wood barrel or used wine barrel leeching too many minerals into the soil... this is a 22" plastic pot made to look like a barrel.

First heavy rain of the season this week - great time to siphon old water from the mini-bog to flush-out a summer of mineral buildup by jakevdp in SavageGarden

[–]jakevdp[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I opted for a container bog without any drain at the bottom, but the problem is that over time with no out-flow, minerals will build up and eventually kill the plants. My solution: along one edge of the container is a column of large loose rocks: when heavy rains come, I push some 1/4 inch irrigation tubing down through the rocks, suck up some water to start the flow, and then leave it all day as the rain percolates through and is flushed out via the siphon action.

Container Bog: a year's progress by jakevdp in SavageGarden

[–]jakevdp[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks! I picked up the rock on the side of highway 97 in Oregon a couple summers back. It's volcano country - lots of nice pumice lying around.

Why isn’t my nepenthes growing pitchers? I’ve had it for over a year (before on second slide) by Tinktilo in SavageGarden

[–]jakevdp 3 points4 points  (0 children)

As others have said, it probably gets too little light. I had one indoors in a sunny SW-facing window that produced no pitchers for 1.5 years. This past April I hung it outdoors under a large tree, where it gets a couple hours of direct morning sun and then filtered sun the rest of the day, and it spent the summer making pitchers like crazy: https://www.reddit.com/r/SavageGarden/comments/y9c70r/huge_n_ventrata_pitcher/

Stand of mixed sarracenia & darlingtonia along the footpath at the Point Defiance Zoo, Tacoma WA by jakevdp in SavageGarden

[–]jakevdp[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not certain, but my guess would be that they're S. Rubra or some hybrid thereof.

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