I got them as they are weird and I always wanted to see if I could grow them. Turns out the ones I have are actually pretty easy to care for. They need a lot of light and are fine with the temperatures we have outside during the summer. They come inside into a sunny window for the winter. Their ability to actually catch a bunch of things is a big bonus. You can pick up some small ones from Lowe's/Rona whatever it is now. Give them the right conditions and they will grow pretty fast. I got some of mine, the bigger ones, from a speciality store in Quebec and one nearby in Kingston. Rose Cafe in Drummondville has a big selection of carnivorous plants and also lots of other things. The store at the botanical gardens in Montreal has some too. I know there’s a couple of stores in the GTA that specialize in these as well.
I have some other plants as well such as saracenia and drosera. These are a bit different. The only one I’m having an issue with is a Venus fly trap.
Edit: the vining pitcher plants are called Nepenthes. There’s lowland and highland ones. I have the easier ones to look after.
We have got stinging nettles in our garden somehow. That’s been an interesting surprise at times.
I’m experimenting with repotting the house plants that are currently outside into a semi-hydroponic medium of clay pebbles. I want to see if they grow better and also this way I'll get less outside bugs inside. 10lbs of the clay pebbles are $34 on Amazon. I put sphagnum moss on the top of the pots and they look pretty neat and the plants seem stable. Bonus is the pots are way lighter now too. I bought a 10 pack of self watering orchid pots of Amazon too.
We have got stinging nettles in our garden somehow. That’s been an interesting surprise at times.
I’m experimenting with repotting the house plants that are currently outside into a semi-hydroponic medium of clay pebbles. I want to see if they grow better and also this way I'll get less outside bugs inside. 10lbs of the clay pebbles are $34 on Amazon. I put sphagnum moss on the top of the pots and they look pretty neat and the plants seem stable. Bonus is the pots are way lighter now too. I bought a 10 pack of self watering orchid pots of Amazon too.
Go light with any fertilizer as your medium will have very little buffering also the salts will build up and you might want to give it at least one good rinse over the winter period.
Go light with any fertilizer as your medium will have very little buffering also the salts will build up and you might want to give it at least one good rinse over the winter period.
For now I’m just using some leftover fertilizer from my miracle grow aero gardens. A capful in the reserve water and a capful put in from on top. I don’t plan on adding any more until I start to see some decent growth.
This was $40 shipping for a bunch of plants. Understandable as it’s expedited and the discount made it a bit easier to swallow. I ordered 4 different things that I’d be hard pressed to find anywhere else.
Gardening adjacent
Myself and other volunteers spent two hours last Saturday at a private orchard harvesting apples. We were able to harvest almost 900 lbs. They were donated to the Orangeville foodbank
I really enjoy pottering about with plants. I’m wondering if a little side hustle selling plants on marketplace would actually make anything? If I can propagate the pitcher plants I think that would be good as there aren’t that many places to buy them nearby.
I really enjoy pottering about with plants. I’m wondering if a little side hustle selling plants on marketplace would actually make anything? If I can propagate the pitcher plants I think that would be good as there aren’t that many places to buy them nearby.
I propagate a lot of plants around here, and I overwinter lots too.
Pitcher plants are easy to propagate, but it’s slooooow. You can divide the rhizome and get 3-5 new plants off a good size mother, but then you’re done for a few years. To make money, you need a small nursery plot with a few rows of mother plants.
I overwinter a few interesting breeds of coleus, passion fruit, and I seed start castor beans, chiltepin peppers and Brugmansia trumpet flowers. There’s are difficult to impossible to find. I sell them for 1 beer each in the spring. I get a couple hundred free beers.
In the spring I propagate giant hardy hibiscus from a couple of mothers in my yard. I get about 50 off cuttings, those sell for 2 beers.
I have a simple 4’x2’ 4 tier light garden with a hydroponic tier. I cobbled together an automatic control for light and watering - not much work.
I really enjoy pottering about with plants. I’m wondering if a little side hustle selling plants on marketplace would actually make anything? If I can propagate the pitcher plants I think that would be good as there aren’t that many places to buy them nearby.
I forgot - a few years back when grow your own was faddishly popular, I cloned a few fancy named pot plants for friends and neighbours. Those were 2 beers each.
That’s as easy as growing weeds, and pretty easy to sell.
I gave that up when I found there are some limits on free enterprise. .
I propagate a lot of plants around here, and I overwinter lots too.
Pitcher plants are easy to propagate, but it’s slooooow. You can divide the rhizome and get 3-5 new plants off a good size mother, but then you’re done for a few years. To make money, you need a small nursery plot with a few rows of mother plants.
I overwinter a few interesting breeds of coleus, passion fruit, and I seed start castor beans, chiltepin peppers and Brugmansia trumpet flowers. There’s are difficult to impossible to find. I sell them for 1 beer each in the spring. I get a couple hundred free beers.
In the spring I propagate giant hardy hibiscus from a couple of mothers in my yard. I get about 50 off cuttings, those sell for 2 beers.
I have a simple 4’x2’ 4 tier light garden with a hydroponic tier. I cobbled together an automatic control for light and watering - not much work.
Just potted up and divided some reasonably fancy alocasia plants. Got 6 corms from them and set those up on sphagnum moss in tiny self watering pots. If they all take roots that’s 7 plants in total from the mother plant. Figure they are worth 5-10$ each depending on size. The big one that was split from the mother maybe a bit more. Will see what comes of this.
The bigger job will be dividing up and potting about 20 Japanese banana plants. These aren’t small and they’ll need a fair bit of quality soil.
Here we go. This is just from two pots of banana plants. Its given me this many baby plants. I only have another 10+ pots to go. I think I may run out of soil and pots.
Here we go. This is just from two pots of banana plants. Its given me this many baby plants. I only have another 10+ pots to go. I think I may run out of soil and pots.
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