I Am Obsessed With Pitcher Plants, And Propagating Them is Much Easier Than You’d Expect – Discover My Two Tried-and-True Methods

A close-up of a dangling pitcher of a Nepenthes plant.

I’ve long had a fascination with carnivorous plants as they are not only beautiful but evolved over thousands of years to attract and trap pests in ingenious ways. It has led me to get a growing collection of carnivorous plants on my windowsills at home, with an expanding roster of pitcher plants, venus fly traps, drosera, and pinguicula.

The fascination doesn’t stop there. As I am overly ambitious, I have several packets of different Sarracenia seeds in an effort to expand my collection and propagate more pitcher plants. Seeds are one way to propagate a pitcher plant, but admittedly, cuttings offer a quicker and potentially more realistic route to go down if you want more plants.