WINTER: Please note temperate plants are dormant and will not look the same as pictured. Do not forget a heatpack if your temps are low! Especially for tropicals!



Utricularia (Bladderwort) Care Guide

Posted by Vincent Green on

This is a general care guide - it will be updated later for specific species.


Water:

Distilled, Reverse Osmosis, Rain or water with TDS under 100.

Epiphytic: Keep moist, but do not sit in deep water or they will drown. (Longifolia, Alpina, Reniformis)

Terrestrial: Can sit in water 24/7 (Sandersonii, Livida, Calycifida)

Aquatic: Obviously, submerged in water. (Inflata, Gibba)

Aqua-Terrestrial: This is not a real classification but these are ones that love water and want the water line right up to the media or even slightly over (Graminifolia, Dichotoma, Fulva)

Light:

Low to Medium light, these plants should receive around 6-10 hours of bright light, depending on the species.

When in good conditions, they will spread and flower.

Temp:

Best kept in tropical conditions (Above 65 degrees). Lower can be tolerated but growth will slow.

Most aquatic ones will go dormant in the winter, forming turions.

Media:

Epiphytes: I prefer to keep them in long fiber sphagnum, sometimes with perlite/coco husk.

Terrestrials: Usually kept in pure peat or peat+perlite.

Aquatic: No media as they float freely, but peat in the bottom of the water container.

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