Recent content by Slurm

Or better yet, put your cephalotus outdoors once the weather cools down. Cephalotus follicilaris likes cool nights like a highland nepenthes. Since you live in florida (zone 9 or 10), you don't have to worry about cold killing your cephalotus. They can take temps down to 32f. Right now, it is...

In Atlanta, it is hard to get night temps under 75f in the summer. Once I move into my dorm room at UGA, I will set up a lowland terrerium in a 150 gallon tank I got for my birthday. I got a single person room that is fairly large (for a dorm), so I think I can pull it off.

I can't beleive no one has mentioned Legends of the Hidden Temple!

I think in a crisis situation, food hoarding would be a liabillity. It would be you vs. the starving masses with weapons!

Man, that sucks! I've never had my plants vandalized, but on occassion rabbits and chipmunks eat them. A few weeks ago, a rabbit chewed up a succulent that took 7 years to reach 2 inches in diameter. It is still alive, but it will take several years to outgrow the damage.

Put some Cobra lillies and boreal pinguiculas like P. grandiflora and P. macroceras in there. You are in one of the few places in the USA where they are easy to grow!

I would like to add a bit more about N. gymnamphora. N. gymnamphora is a fairly widespread nepenthes with an altitude range of 600m-2800m. It is one of the few nepethes that has both lowland and ultrahighland populations. There is a good number of clones in commercial circulation, many if you...

I tried N. sibuyanensis and I don't think it would be a good idea in a hot climate. There is a hybrid called N. x medusa which is a hybrid of N. sibuyanensis and N. bellii. It looks very similar to N. sibuyanensis and is a much faster grower. It prefers lowland conditions.

Wow! You grow boreal pings, tuberous drosera, heliamphoras, and cephalotus outdoors in the same bog? Where are you located, I'm guessing the CA bay area?

Happy birthday! I like your Earthbound avatar.

It looks like Opuntia subulata. It is a cactus in the same genus as prickly pear cacti.

I doubt that the national Average cost of gas will be at $5/gallon by the fourth of July. Maybe in major cities in California, but not everywhere

That is not a lithops. It is the a Pleospilos nellii. Pleospilos nellii is very closesly related to Lithops and should be grown the same way. Your set-up does not look good. They do not grow well in sand. A drainage hole in the pot is absolutely vital to prevent rot. Go to a garden store or home...

My favorite is N. x medusa. Unfortunately, mine died while I was out of town. It dried up really fast under my high-intensity growlights.

Its big enough for a sarracenia, but If you plant one in there, it will crowd everything else out very fast. You could grow a really nice sundew, butterwort, and VFT garden in there.