Who told you that? I've had plants in the same pots that have been getting fertilizer for an awful long time, and they certainly don't seem to mind.but then you have to repot more,
Then use something else. Sphag isn't great and coco husk is one of the worst media choices around. Or, just flush your pots, it's really not that hard.and I use the coconut husk stuff that will turn to sludge when I fertilize.
and sphagnum will turns mushy also.
Sheesh can we get at least a passive attempt
at proper punctuation and capitalization?
And what's with that structure in your posts?
Are you trying to write a haiku?
Who told you that? I've had plants in the same pots that have been getting fertilizer for an awful long time, and they certainly don't seem to mind.
Then use something else. Sphag isn't great and coco husk is one of the worst media choices around. Or, just flush your pots, it's really not that hard.
I'm starting to feel like I repeat the same stuff OVER AND OVER AGAIN. I've said the same thing about fertilizer at least 3x this week, yet it keeps being brought up. Do people just not read my posts or what?
I've already explained why on this forum at least 10 times. Look around for it.I don't know whats so bad about the coco stuff it has never turned to sludge for me and my plants do great in it.
Seriously....do you not read anything I say? Click back a page and you'll see this:I could put a osmocote pellet in the older pitchers,
that away it wouldn't like burn a new pitcher.
You could just use an old pitcher in case that burns, OR, instead of experiencing leaf burn months later from the Osmocote, you could just fertilize with organic fert through the pitchers, or inorganic/organic fert through the soil. Again, how many times have I said that same thing (even within the past week)? DM....read. Seriously. We're going in circles here.Osmocote isn't too reliable. Some of the pellets are stronger than others, some crack and release everything at once...etc, etc. While it didn't kill anything, I found most of my plants that were treated with Osmocote ended up with burned pitchers/leaves.
If the leaves or traps start going brown/black prematurely (i.e. you're losing a lot quickly instead of 1 or so leaves a monthish) then you're overfertilizing. Otherwise, if the plant is looking better and not dying, just keep doing what you're doing until you see a problem. Plants that grow quickly need more fertilizer, so ventricosa would need more than lowii.I think I am even possibly over fertalizing them as I do it sometimes every week. But I am also sort of new to neps so if anyone can see a fatal flaw... let me know.