Recent content by kath

Thanks!!! I'll go read it :D

Oh dear. :D Well, at least i have a bit more of an idea of how to say it inmy head now, and won't just be reading "D. Gr... ok, skip the rest" haha lol. I just won't try pronouncing it aloud to anyone. Especially anyone I meet from Portugal, in case I offend them. :/

Thanks guys. Yeah, water, light, humidity, media, temperature. That gives me a good starting point to go research and get my foot in the door. :) And thanks for reminding me about mold etc. - it's easy to forget that things don't always go to plan. It's starting to come back to me a bit...

So, I've decided to start collecting again. Yay! However, it's been a long time since I was growing carnivores. Well, a year or two. And while I used to be fairly knowledgable on the basics, now that I'm gearing up to invest in some new plants, I'm starting to panic about all of the things I...

Wow 0_0. These are all really beautiful looking plants! :D I can't wait for my plain old Drosera seeds to arrive now, so that I can get involved in growing again - this is truly inspiring! :) And the D. graomogolensis (does someone want to tell me how to pronounce that please) is stunning. I've...

Haha, yeah. Metric, imperial. Metric's pretty easy as a system, but it correlates so badly to every other system!!! :P jimscott, that's really interesting! Do you know anymore about what sort of stuff they're doing, etc.? The sort of nanoscience I want to get into is the sort that has a human...

So, I discovered this very cool, simple but informative nanoscience video -- that has CARNIVOROUS PLANTS in it!!! Specifically Nepenthes. Obviously, my first thought was to post it here! :) I plan to work in nanoscience in the future, so this was very exciting to me, to see a combination of...

Sadly, most of my carnivorous plant collection is no longer... well, in existence. I'm pretty sure I no longer have a D. arcturi, and after all that effort to get one!!! However, I've got an opportunity to get some seeds for D. arcturi (might not take it this time round, but I'll have plenty of...

Hi :) So I've actually been a member here for a while, but I haven't been active since around 2010. BUT... I'm thinking about getting back into carnivorous plant collecting again now, so I thought I would rejoin the forum, so to speak, and get involved again. I thought I ought to re-introduce...

Hello. Today i received a small shipment of recently (2-3 days ago) deflasked TC carnivorous plants from varying genus'. As expected, I have done some research, and know that they need to be kept in humid, shaded, and medium temp environments and slowly acclimatatized, but this is my first...

So - which species do you have then? Do you have P. reticulata? I like P. reticulata :) My one is going to flower I think :) My favourite is P. cyclosecta though, because it goes purple for me - the same colour as its flower!

Can you get a more in-focus pic? The only small, white, jumping things I can think of are passion-vine hopper larvae. But these don't have furry tails, (tufts of fur on their rears) do they? Passion vine hopper babies have furry bits on the end of their bums. Hmmm...

What sort of sundews are these? Pygmy? Temperate? South African?

Yes... we do have pretty scenery, don't we? :) (says kath, an NZ grower) You should have told her to go and look at our natural drosera populations - but oh no, wait, they've all turned into D. Capensis now! :( Oh well, hope you get you camera back soon!

I'm not sure about Gypsicola, but when my mate sent me Grandiflora he potted it into a pot that was only 3/4 full and placed damp sphagnum over the top, then sealed it with a lid with breathing holes. I panicked at first because I thought he'd forgotten to put the plant in, then I realised that...