The leaves of the plant are lanceolate, slightly down, have the next arrangement, light green or green. The tip of ordinary leaves is usually modified: the thin tip of the leaf gently passes into a small jug with a lid. The outer side of the jug has two toothed strips, which play an important role in fixing the jug to the support. In the jug, there is liquid: the enzyme is a non-pentine and rainwater. Such an enzyme as neptesin is necessary for digesting insects that fall into a trap. The walls inside are smooth, covered with wax, which is why they are very slippery. Rigid and small hairs are turned downwards, therefore the victim has no opportunity to escape from the trap. The average size of a jug is 15-20 centimeters, however, sometimes you can find a jug that has reached 50 cm in size.
The main extraction of such jugs: toads, rodents, sometimes birds come across.
The shape and color of the jugs of the nepentes depends on the hybrid and the species: there is a color from brown and lilac to variegated and yellow.
In addition to multi-colored jugs, Nepentes can also bloom. Flowers are small, concentrated in the inflorescence. Nepentes is considered a dioecious plant, therefore on one plant there are either male or female flowers.
How to properly care for the plant.
The plant gives preference to bright scattered light, however, from direct rays of the sun it should be pritenyat gauze or plain paper (you can use tulle).
The plant can be grown on the north and west window, but the plant must be under diffuse lighting. In autumn and winter, the plant needs to be illuminated, which should be performed for 16 hours a day with fluorescent lights.
Is a non-pentes flower that feels good at moderate temperatures.
In spring and summer, the optimal temperature for species that grow in low lying places is 22-26 degrees, and in autumn and winter - 18-20 degrees (t should not fall below 16 ° С). If a plant grows long in a room with a low temperature, it may die.
In spring and summer, a suitable temperature for species that grow in the mountains is 18-20 degrees, and in winter - up to 15 degrees, not below 12 o C. If such a plant is to remain warm for a long time, the plant will begin to ache. In the room, the rest period lasts from October to February. The rest of the plant can be called forced, because it is associated with reduced air humidity and reduced illumination.
Nepentes is a moisture-loving plant, and requires high humidity, so the substrate must be excessively moist, but in no case should it dry out.
Watering the plant better than rainwater or a constant room temperature, it is preferable to use lower watering. Water should be with a minimum content of mineral salts. In summer the plant is watered abundantly. In autumn and winter it is watered moderately, 2 days after the top layer of soil has dried. If the room temperature does not exceed 16 о С, then water should be in small portions of water.
Humidity of air for growing non-pentes is 70-90%. Therefore, for growing at home, moist greenhouses, florariums and other special places with high humidity are good. If the plant grows in ordinary room conditions with dry air, then the jugs quickly begin to dry out.
To properly care for the flower nepentes, it should be sprayed with standing water or rain at room temperature with a weak content of mineral salts.
Humidifiers can be used to increase air humidity. You can also put a pot of plant on a pallet with moist peat or claydite. In the water lilies you need to pour a little soft, clean water (the jug should be filled to 1/3).
In the summer period, fertilizing takes place two to three weeks once, with a flower complex fertilizer, but with a threefold reduced concentration. Some growers use organic fertilizers (for example, horse or cow dung). There is an opinion that frequent fertilizing can cause the absence of water lilies.
From time to time the plant can be fed in a natural way, which is carried out through the water lilies. Feeding, therefore, is carried out in a month or two, while feeding the water-lilies you need not all at once, but in turn. Some people with this feeding completely refuse fertilizers, throwing dead flies and mosquitoes into the jugs (some even use cottage cheese and meat).
To improve the branching in the spring, old copies are truncated. Cut material is often used for reproduction of non-pence.
Dive the plant if necessary in spring, but if, on the plant there are jugs, the plant feels well in the pot, which corresponds to the size, then the plant is not recommended to replant.
Nepenthesu is better in hanging pots, orchid baskets, rather than in pots a diameter that should be 14 cm or more.
For diving, you should prepare a pot and a substrate. The pot should be slightly larger than before and there must be a good drainage system (you can use the basket).
Earth composition for transplantation: leafy earth (3 parts), 2 parts of peat and one part of sand, charcoal and sphagnum are added to the composition. And you can take such a composition: horse turf (1 part), perlite (2 parts), vermiculite or polystyrene (1 part). The soil should not be too acidic, since it does not tolerate this.
Nepenthes are overtaken, which allows not to hurt the root to whom. In the pot, where the plant will be dived, you need to add a fresh substrate.
Many hybrids reproduce with stem or apical cuttings in moss-sphagnum, and it is better if root stimulants will be used in a mini-greenhouse with high humidity and at a temperature of 25 o C. Roots will form in 2.5 months.
Possible difficulties.
The lack of lighting can affect the formation of trapping jugs (they are either 2-3 pieces, or they do not exist at all).
Excess nitrogen fertilizer weakens the plant, which causes the decay of individual parts.
Cultivation in pure moss or peat leads to chlorosis.
It affects: aphids and mealybugs.