Recent content by EntwinedScylla

I use two glaized ceramic "african violet" pots for my Darlingtonia. They work perfectly. The opaque, pale, reservoir makes the water and soil stay rather cool, too.

As far as I know it's best to use for getting a plant over repotting/poor care shock. Use it maybe once or twice a year. Anything more isn't going to do you any good, as the plants will have given their rooting-all.

The poor, mistreated, Ventrata has now put out two big new leaves complete with tiny baby pitchers forming. (sarcasm) Carnivorous plants are SO hard to take care of! (/sarcasm)

On all of the cuttings I've taken the traps are still active for a while.

I have some that are very dark like that. It's generally listed as "red line" when they have that lovely red stripe on the outside of the trap. Mine have done the opposite. They arrived very dark, and are producing very pale, typical, traps in full sun outdoors.

Are you speaking of yellow-yellow, or simply the pale, all-green sort?

Looks like an -extreme- case of Fused Tooth.

Well, aside from puckering up a bit, she's doing well. People said I shouldn't mist a Ventrata, but I mist the other plant daily, and it's done quite well... so misting I do. My flatmates have consented to letting me put the Nepenthes (both ventratas) into hanging baskets in the kitchen...

Melafix. Quickly.

My attack plan is sort of like the Darlingtonia... slowly acclimate it to things like air and light... and after it's bounced back -then- move it. The smaller Ventrata (a spotted one, no less) is growing quite well in the little cube-base, as long as I water sparingly and mist once daily. I'm...

Right now I'm concerned with just getting it out of the cube alive. If anyone's ever gotten one out of a container like that (such as tissue culture) , I think that's what kinda job I'm looking at here.

I picked up another rescue at a local Lowe's today. It's a ventrata that's been in a 4" cube for about two or three months. Other than VERY slowly acclimating it to sensible care... I'm not sure what to do for it. Can anyone suggest anything to help keep it from taking that long dive into the...

Oklahoma?! I'm on the outskirts of Norman! The only Drosera I know of that you can get locally are the ones at Lowe's, and there are a few varieties at the Norman store (not just Adelae). You could also contact Ardella's Flowers. They get in great carnivorous plants during the summer, and may be...

(Not actual size) Guppy fry: (...) Molly fry: (......) Way too big to fit into a guppy mouth.

Definately try crossing them to eachother and seeing if this extremely fast growth will carry to the offspring.