Pitcher Plant Repotting into DIY Hanging Pot

For many months, I have planted the pitcher plant in a glass container and left it outside on the window sill. It was growing well but recently due to the hot weather, the pitcher plant starts to dry up and turn brown. The pitcher plant still grows new leaves but the browning of leaves are at a faster pace than the new growth.

It is annoying to see this and I'm thinking of bringing the pitcher plant into the room and want to hang it on the window grills. I have done a DIY container before and wanted to make another one for this pitcher plant.

Today is a good day to repot the pitcher plant.

Pitcher Plant with dried leaves

I have some dried sphagnum moss that I bought last year. I took out some and soaked them into the water. Oops, I forgot to use distilled water and had used tap water instead. My mistake. You must remember that the pitcher plant needs distilled water instead of tap water. I think the minerals and chemicals in the tap water are damaging to the pitcher plant. I put the sphagnum moss into the container and pressed them firmly. But before I do this, I had punctured 9 holes in the plastic cap of the bottle. This will allow for drainage of excess water. Using my fingers, I had cleared an opening in the middle of the sphagnum moss for the pitcher plant.

DIY Hanging Pot

I removed the pitcher plant from the old container. I removed the excess soil from the roots and using a cutter to cut away all the dried leaves.

Removing the Pitcher Plant from the pot

I placed the pitcher plant into the centre hole and covered the top with more sphagnum moss. The repotting is done and I used some ropes to secure the container and made it into a hanging pot.

Trimmed away the dried leaves

Mission accomplished! DIY Hanging Pot

Pitcher Plant

I have managed to propagate my pitcher plant and now I have two pitcher plants. One plant is grown in a glass container and the other one is in a plastic bottle that I had D.I.Y. by myself. I have placed peat moss and perlite in a mixing ratio of 1:1. Then I added sphagnum moss on the top. I had cut a stem with about 3 leaves and then coated the cut base with rooting powder. I put the stem into the peat moss + perlite mix and kept the mix moist. I had covered the whole bottle and plant with a bag to keep it moist and high humidity. After a month, you will see new growth.

Pitcher Plant

When the pitcher plant is small, the pitcher cup is also small. I have hung the pitcher plant near the window and it is catching the western sun for a couple of hours. I think maybe it is not getting enough sunlight as the pitcher cups have dried up. I try to give the pitcher plant distilled water everyday. The excess water will be drained away at the bottom of the bottle. 

Besides water, you will need to feed the pitcher plant with small insects. The pitcher plant gets its nutrients from small insects that get trapped inside the pitfall traps. As the pitcher plant is mostly kept indoors, there are not many insects that can crawl into the traps. So, I assisted the pitcher plant by putting insects into the traps. Here is the trap with insects in it. I think I have placed a dead insect into the trap and ants may have been attracted by the dead insects and fell into the trap.

Insects in the pitfall trap