How to Grow Nepenthes From Seed

hey guys welcome back to the channel in this video i'm going to show you how to plant seeds of a pitcher plant on a panthes this is it over here it has all the pictures and like i just said i want to show you how to plant the seeds of one of those plants how to get it to go from this tiny little seeds to a really big plant like that it's a fairly simple process but there are quite a few things you need to keep in mind and steps to take so let me turn around the camera and um yeah talk a little bit more about them when i do that first off let me just show you guys the plants i have it on the drying rack here next to me it's just uh drying out because you know that's what the drying rack is for but the plants they form these beautiful little traps like this these are called pitchers and they are modified leafs basically that's capture and eat and digest insects if you didn't know that and obviously the plant itself it looks like that it just forms a growth out the ground the stem has these leaves and at the end of the leaf it has a little tendril and this little tendril forms into this little picture and that little little picture slowly inflates up to a picture about this size now some of you guys might think yeah this lid closes on an insect or something no it doesn't it literally just stays open like that um i'm not too sure why the lid is there it's basically what i believe and what a few people have said is that it just helps prevent rain from falling inside of the picture because you know if there's insects and food inside of the pitcher if water falls up it will overflow then all the food that it's caught will obviously get spilled out into the ground so yeah that's why it has a lid for no other reason it doesn't close on them so don't think that it does um secondly these beautiful plants that have this peristome over here this little peristome here and it's quite hard actually and it's very slippery for insects so when insects come to eat the nectar that is excreted at the bottom of this lid here of an appentis they will walk on this peristome and it's very slippery and they fall inside where they drown in that water i don't know if you guys can see that splashing around in there they'll fall inside of there and slowly drown and then the plant eats it this is literally like a little stomach that you can hold and see other plants and of course as you can see it makes a lot of them these are older ones from when they were growing somewhere a little bit better and these are all newer ones of course that it's created since i moved to where i currently am and then hopefully by the end of the year i'm going to sell the plant because i want to move to as some of you may know to the states that's being that's becoming quite a difficult one to do guys because you know i don't know getting there is so difficult because of visas so basically there's that like i need to get employed by someone or marry an american so it's i don't know what i'm gonna do guys but yeah that's not what the video is about it's about these plants so let me show you how this pack of seeds is sewn so that you can get a plant that looks just like this yeah i'll turn the camera now okay guys so here is our little pot and here are our seeds as you guys can see from this clip the seeds are quite small in the center of them you may see the actual seed part and the pieces sticking out is what i like to call the wings and what the wing does sorry there's mosquitoes biting me what the wing does is that it helps the seeds float around whenever the wind blows it helps them to travel you know further distances and whatnot that seeds can spread and you know the whole that's the whole point of plant reproducing so they can spread their seed everywhere anyway this is the packet that we have now and the process of sewing species is very very simple now i do remember in the previous video i did say do you guys want me to do a giveaway or do you want me to just sew them most of you guys actually said sewing them and some said both so it's will be easier for me to just sew them rather than trying to figure out how to run a competition and anyway these seeds aren't viable for a long time so if i do send it to someone it might take a while and the seeds you get will end up being unviable which is you know very disappointing so yeah anyway i have apache and what is in this pot is sphagnum swaggling peat oh not pizza just forgive moss which is currently very very sparse at the moment like if you have a bale of the stuff which i do have it's quite expensive to find but mainly because no one has it anymore because of all the supply chain shortages and whatnot more mosquitoes and it bit me got it though look at the blood on my hands anyway guys what you want to do is you want to get a pot of course of sphagnum moss most preferably if you can and fill up the pot with the moss and pearl art you can use orchid bark or sand or something just essentially what you want is a very free draining media that doesn't hold water so when you pour water in the top it drains out very freely but it retains moisture if you've ever grown an orchid you should know what i mean so basically what i have here is literally just a pot of peat uh sphagnum and pearlite and on the top is sphagnum that are chopped up very very finely and i laid it flat on the surface so that any seeds has very good contact with this top layer of soil here and the reason why we want good contact is because the seed only starts growing when it touch when it feels the water to understand it needs to feel the water around it so if you make it very flat the seeds can lay on this surface here and hopefully they will start growing so that is the simple part of it guys putting the seeds on is very very simple what you then do take your seeds just like this open up the packet i'll show you guys the camera open the packet you can see that the seeds are these straw colored ones here and this is the seed pod so this is what a flower of an append piece looks like very alien-like now there may be some seeds still left inside there so make sure that you do check if you have a pod and i hope to have removed all the seeds out of those pods but what you simply do guys and this process is for most cannabis plants you take your paper and you tap it like that you can see the seeds are slowly falling down okay i'm going to tap from the other direction and you want to simply tap the seeds onto the soil and spread them out as best you can obviously i did get them wet so they're going to be sticking to the middle but just keep doing this quite a few quite a few of the seats are actually stuck to the paper still so i'm just using my hands to get them down but there we go guys now we have the seeds on the surface of our pot and what i will do now is i will gently get to be very careful guys very gently just try to spread them out because i didn't do a great job of spreading them out beforehand now did i and i will gently just tap them into the soil so that i can ensure that they have good contact with the soil because remember we want them to feel the moisture around them so that they know hey it's water we can another mosquito i'm just i caught it but then it got out damage guys these damn mosquitos what's on my finger there oh right away there's two mosquitoes flying around guys i want to get one of them let me continue trying to put these seeds onto the soil and yeah i guess that is the best that i can do for now and what i will do what i recommend you guys do too is that you get a spray bottle and you spray down these seeds with the water obviously just distills rain water or reverse osmosis water and why you do that is so that you can ensure that they get water to them right now and that it pushes them further down onto the soil that is very very important guys now after that once you have sewn your seeds you want to keep them somewhere obviously moist so i keep them in this tall container with water and some humid so what this container has is a lid let me chuck it this mosquito damn it i missed i think i got it i don't know i think it got because there's blood over there anyway you want to get a little something to keep it nice and warm and humid so i will be taking this inside where it stays warm because it is currently winter here in australia so i'm going to take it inside keep it warm keep it humid keep it watered and in a couple months we should you know cross our fingers we should get some sprouts so make sure you do subscribe to the channel so that you can keep yourself updated on their growth because i will do an update when they start sprouting and that's about it guys this is a cross i forgot the cross it's quite a big one it has a viking in it it costs it costs a sienna and something else um so it's not a very flashy looking plant but hey vegas computers we want to give away yeah that's about it guys there their care guide for when you have them growing is the same as for when their seeds keep them humid keep them in most cases you want them to stay fairly warm never below freezing never above really 30 celsius and keep them ordered ensure that they stay damp not sopping wet you want to top water them if you can and i'll give you the best success of growing these plants guys let me just turn the camera around real quick i've just caught two of them and now i've got a third one i hope yep i'm telling you guys these mosquitoes are deadly i don't know if there are any more now but man i'm gonna be itchy i wanted to just show you guys the plant so this plant like i was telling you guys i've had it under my my porch which stays fairly shaded and obviously warm enough they are outside here in winter so it does get pretty cold where i am here at the moment but they're very happy as you guys can tell this is all old growth these ones here from about this leaf here this leaf onwards so about from here onwards has all been growth since i moved to this house so it is vining at the moment if you guys don't know an append these are actually vines they grow up and into things and they climb they grab stuff and they climb in a little picture like this one here might picture because it's caught itself and what that generally means is that it makes basils so those plant also has two basils over here and the basils will continue producing more and more pitches as you guys can tell and like i said it's best to top water them i use a tray method for these guys but i do leave them without water for like a week so they do dry out because they are very susceptible to root rot so you have to be quite careful with the plants otherwise the care is as straightforward as making sure they get enough light you know just bright light nothing direct like an orchid enough water and enough humidity and that is the basic most basic of care for them most of them if you get them from a big box store they'll be grown like that and that is how you sow their seeds so hopefully these seeds turn into a plant like this one day for someone because like i said i want to move to the states but it's not very easy maybe if one of you guys have a company or want to marry me you can uh you know hit me up yeah yeah anyway guys i hope you enjoyed this video i hope you find it informative this is on the phone please so there we go guys i'll see you guys in the next episode