Recent content by Flint

Wow.....I'm not even sure what to say about that...other than GIVE THE MONEY TO ME!! I wanna start a LEGITIMATE business, not organized highway robbery. $20!?! I don't even like paying that much for rare Neps! When you make as much as I do, that's a LOT of money, lol. Not to mention those things...

That's a tough call, I couldn't say for sure unless I had the plant to inspect personally, and even then I'm not sure I could tell. This is my first year growing Flava. I have been strictly Purp and Leuco till now. I"M BRANCHING OUT!! YAY! lol.

That's about the humidity we have here, they wont do very well. Last year I tried a bunch of CP's outside and they survived it, but just barely. If you are going to do it (your sun is as harsh as mine, I know) give them pretty good shade for like the last 6 hours of the day, it was the intense...

It's been my experience that kids like that NEVER get what's coming to them. I work in an alternative middle school (meaning I get all THOSE kids that can't be allowed in the normal school system). Their parents will forever bail them out and shrug it off. We have one student, he stole his...

The encyclopedia should make it alot clearer that the VFT is not a sundew, they are just in the same family and make some sort of reminder that there are lots of different things in the same family, like other examples. I was confussed and thought they were way wrong at first too.

Tap water can have some very strange effects on the growth of a Nep. This sounds pretty extreme....what the heck is in your water?!? lol. I hope YOU don't drink it. Ya, if you get us a pic up we can help alot more, for now though, I can say it would be a really good idea to flush the soil with...

OUCH!! Ya, I had that happen to...sorta. About a week ago, one of my DARLING little ANGEL of a students decided my desk was a great place to throw a foot ball next to and smashed my Nep. Raff, I'm still worried it is gonna go the way of the dinosaur. No new growth is showing and everything is...

K, I am just hoping someone has ran into this same problem, I am confused as #### and a little irked/freaked out at the moment. I have a Sanguinea Pink that I FINALLY thought I had gotten the conditions perfect for last month or so. The pitchers started to all grow and open up, the colors I am...

Just an update to anyone who has been watching this thread, my orchid is doing fantastic, there are two blooms that have been on there since I started this thread and are still perfectly healthy and hanging on, I am happy about that. I was under the impression that blossoms only lasted like a...

Thanks guys, I think this is enough to get me going . I appreciate it.

Ok, it seems to me it is a dendrobium. So, when you say bright light, do you mean, just a well sun lit room, or direct sun? I thought orchids prefered an almost shady environment with like filtered sunlight. Also, alot of the pictures I am looking at have them in containers that trap water...

Hey everyone! Ok, here's the deal... I rescued this poor orchid from a rack at our local K-mart that is going out of business, god knows how long it has been sitting there in neglect, but it still looks ok, just one dead leaf, the lowest one. There are three main stocks, one has flowers, so I am...

Keep in mind also, a pitcher can only stomach so much before things will begin to rot because it can't digest it all. I would agree with small feedings or rotation giving each pitcher a good chance to deal with that is left.

I would just warn against bee's due to my bad experiences with them, the toxins in the venom sac had rotted my pitchers and poisoned my plants. I lost a really nice mirabilis to bees. I do what I can to pluck them out of the pitcher anymore, but it could just have to do with the variety of bee...

Hey, Flint here, I have had my pft Raff for about 10 months or so, I am getting about 3.5" pitchers, they look absolutly amazing, it's become my favorite Nep in my collection, I love the very odd shape it forms, VERY different from other species I have, and I really like the color patterns I...