calek Posted April 14, 2009 Report Share Posted April 14, 2009 (edited) Hey everybody, i accidentally spilled a bit of my nepenthes x ventrata's digestive enzymes that were inside the pitchers, are these lost enzymes replaced with new ones or have i lost those enzymes for ever? PLEASE ANSWER I AM QUITE WORRIED. P.S. I was moving around the cp's table and i stumbled by the table and sort of moved it a little with my foot, a pitcher which is sort of sideways spilled a bit of transparent funny smelling liquid, i'm shore they are digestive enzymes. For being 2 inch pitchers it spilled quite a bit of the digestive enzymes, thats why im a little worried. Well at least the Sundew is completely fine and the Nepenthes is fine except for that. PS could i fill up the pitcher with rain water or not? thanks everybody, please do respond. bye. Edited April 15, 2009 by calek Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EdaxFlamma Posted April 15, 2009 Report Share Posted April 15, 2009 Don't worry about it at all. If you want to feel better about it fill the pitcher one-third full of RO or DI water and just let it sit. Whether it produces juice its own is dependent on how happy it is in the given conditions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calek Posted April 15, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 15, 2009 What is RO and DI water? rain water or just usual bottle water or what?PS thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveC Posted April 15, 2009 Report Share Posted April 15, 2009 RO - reverse osmosis [water] DI - de-ionised [water] Rain water will be fine too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calek Posted April 15, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 15, 2009 Are you sure i could put rain water into the pitcher of my carnivorous plant without the pitcher rotting? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveC Posted April 15, 2009 Report Share Posted April 15, 2009 I can only speak for my own experiences but I've done it plenty of times after receiving adult plants through the post whose pitcher juice has spilt and I've had no problems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calek Posted April 15, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 15, 2009 Ill check it out, cause there are some that its ok to do that for and some that not.thanks anyway! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EdaxFlamma Posted April 15, 2009 Report Share Posted April 15, 2009 It really makes no difference. Anything with dissolved salts below ~110 parts per million is fine. I don't know of any pitcher plant that you can't put water in... just don't fill it to the top. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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