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    Responsible sampling?

    It never was CPs, as far as I can recall, but back in the days when I'd collect some seeds now and then, I left more than I took and spread a lot in promising looking places, hoping to increase their numbers. I hope I helped them.
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    Green Swamp: Lessons Learned from the Pulp Road Wildfire

    This is an interesting post about last year's big fire in North Carolina's Green Swamp, from a blog I follow at work: Fire in the Swamp: Lessons Learned from the Pulp Road Wildfire - Fire Adapted Communities Learning Network The entire thing is interesting but, if you don't have time to read...
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    My outdoor Tucson, Az Venus flytraps and Sundews

    There is something very appealing about seeing how far we can push plants beyond their comfort zone. We'd be arrested if we tried it with children.
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    Repotting Sarracenia

    You don't mention where you are or how you grow that Sarracenia, but this is a time of year when I never re-pot mine because they're heading into dormancy here in the NE US. They're going to spend the winter frozen with their pots buried in the ground and covered with a pile of dry leaves. I...
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    My N. alata seed giveaway. Updates!

    I see nothing obvious yet, but the sphagnum is greening up (or algae in it is).
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    Winter Dormancy in Michigan

    I haven't had a VFT in a long time but I overwinter my Sarrs outdoors in CT and did the same with VFTs at least a couple winters. I don't know where you are but I'm in an area where the temp only rarely drops below 0F, meaning that most recent years it doesn't go below 0F. My process might...
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    New (ish) mushroom looks pretty neat (and small)

    This is the first time I've seen anything about them. Question: are there mushroom enthusiasts who grow them and trade them and build mushroom collections and talk about them ... all the stuff that goes on here about CPs? I don't mean mushroom hunters and growers who aim to eat them or to...
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    Paw Paws

    I can send scionwood of named varieties if you want to try grafting, which is reasonably easy for pawpaws. Your seedlings probably are too small to do it during the coming dormant season but they should be ready the year after. That can speed up the maturing process.
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    My N. alata seed giveaway. Updates!

    I saw no action when I checked this morning (9/12) but will look much more closely tomorrow. The pot is at work, where there is good light, good climate control, and no cat. 9/13 update: I saw no green this morning but will watch for signs of life.
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    Paw Paws

    You can find paw paws in farmers' markets in some places. Some of my trees are from England's Nursery in KY and, when I visited there several years ago, the owner told me he sells the fruit at a nearby farmers' market (in Berea, I think). More importantly, he said an increasing number of people...
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    Paw Paws

    Pawpaws are a great thing to mention because some people on TF might have pawpaws in their midst without realizing it. I grew up in pawpaw territory and planted some here in Connecticut starting ~30 years ago. The fruit can be an acquired taste in part because of that banana flavor tending...
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    Give Away Nepenthes alata seed giveaway!

    My seeds arrived and I potted them up and will be patient. I've never grown Neps from seed but, from what I've read, there will be no immediate gratification.
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    Ultramific/serpentine soil?

    This thread started almost 20 years ago, but so much info is packed into this one and it's great that someone revived it instead of starting a new one. I went back to the original post but didn't try to read everything in between. I have a comment based on a long-ago geology degree...
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    Give Away Nepenthes alata seed giveaway!

    1) greenfire 2)Thack 3) herenorthere 4) 5)....
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