I'm getting sucked down the rabbit hole! Purchased my first carnivorous plant a few weeks ago. Been sweating where to put it for good sun but not too much sun, good humidity, etc..

FEEDING: It is feast or famine around here. Seems like all the flies saw the plant and decided to go away, other than the one in the picture which I eventually had to just go whack myself and toss it into the pitcher (lazy thing). 

Can I overfeed? I ask because today I picked up a small bottle of Osmocote pellets while I was getting Rhody fertilizer, since I've been seeing where some of you all out there feed your Nepenthes with Osmocote. I got home and, what do you know but I swatted two flies and popped them in to the pitcher. So now wondering about whether I can overfeed them or starve them.

Seems to be a never-ending debate here as to whether or not one can feed them too much, whether they can starve if you don't feed them, if you can feed them plant fertilizer, if you should fertilize via the planting medium vs right into their pitchers or both, whether or not Osmocote pellets are safe, if you need to make sure the Osmocote pellet isn't "broken open"(? since they are slow release), etc..



Feeding N. Lowii X Ventricosa Red