What's new
TerraForums Venus Flytrap, Nepenthes, Drosera and more talk

Register a free account today to become a member! Once signed in, you'll be able to participate on this site by adding your own topics and posts, as well as connect with other members through your own private inbox!

Recent content by TENroaches

  1. TENroaches

    A Couple Questions about False Vivipary

    Looking at the traps again on the picture on my phone, I can't tell if maybe the traps are just so immature that they look cupped. :( I'm going to go out and take pictures now. How rare is false vivipary supposed to be? I get a bunch. I just read that willow tree trick the other day. I may...
  2. TENroaches

    A Couple Questions about False Vivipary

    All I know is I have a non-cupped VFT that put up a flower stalk that now has a cupped false vivaprous VFT. I still haven't gotten any rooting hormone. I better get on that. Hard to find any with fungicide. It sounds like Rootone doesn't have it in it anymore.
  3. TENroaches

    A Couple Questions about False Vivipary

    Thanks, BigBella. Is Rootone something that a Lowe's or Home Depot would carry this time of year? I've never had rooting hormone, because I was always scared of accidentally getting one that isn't okay for CPs.
  4. TENroaches

    A Couple Questions about False Vivipary

    I get several cases of false vivipary every year. I have a couple questions: Is there a best time/way to transplant the new plant from the flower stalk to some peat/perlite? Should I include much or any of the flower stalk? Or just the little stem that attaches the plant to the stalk? None...
  5. TENroaches

    Help Me Brainstorm How to Keep Plants Through Winter -- Not Inside -- Frugally

    All my plants, except the nep, are still outside, with lows dippibg into the low 30s. My question now is, do my sundews need to go dormant now? Do they even go dormant? Or if I bring them inside, will they try to grow all winter? If I found a friend who'd want to plantsit for a winter, would...
  6. TENroaches

    Any Harm in Letting a S. Leucophylla "Tarnok" Flower in Fall?

    I googled Tarnok flower stalks in Fall to see about this, because I saw my Tarnok putting up flower stalks now, and I see I had the same question 2 years ago! I'll be darned, I don't remember that at all! I might nip it in the bud, though, because they have to come inside soon, and the space is...
  7. TENroaches

    Help Me Brainstorm How to Keep Plants Through Winter -- Not Inside -- Frugally

    Hmmm. Why pick a temperature 2 or 3 degrees below freezing? Why not freezing? Just curious. I get scared, but haven't lost a plant due to temps yet. I've only lost D. adelae because they're fussy, a butterwort because I let it flower and I shouldn't have, a cobra lily from Lowe's because it...
  8. TENroaches

    Help Me Brainstorm How to Keep Plants Through Winter -- Not Inside -- Frugally

    Even capensis? This thread led me to believe that D. capensis can't freeze. Also, unrelated: I watched a video today from Sarracenia Northwest, and saw about harvesting Sarrs seeds. Then I went outside and noticed I have a bunch! I never had any before. Maybe I didn't know what to look...
  9. TENroaches

    Help Me Brainstorm How to Keep Plants Through Winter -- Not Inside -- Frugally

    I brought in all the sundews and left the VFTs and Sarrs out.
  10. TENroaches

    Help Me Brainstorm How to Keep Plants Through Winter -- Not Inside -- Frugally

    There's a freeze warning tonight, and I'm wondering which I should bring in. I already brought the nep into the garage. Just being in my sundews, and let the sarrs and VFTs endure the mild freeze? Low is 34 tonight, freeze warning between 2 and 9am.
  11. TENroaches

    Help Me Brainstorm How to Keep Plants Through Winter -- Not Inside -- Frugally

    Thanks, Scottychaos. I never trimmed off still-green pitchers for winter before, but I'm going to have to if I intend to fit my plants on a shelving unit. I do have a few digital thermometers I've used int he past to monitor temps. Even when it does get below freezing, if a hot car comes home...
  12. TENroaches

    Help Me Brainstorm How to Keep Plants Through Winter -- Not Inside -- Frugally

    Are you going by the pictures of my VFTs last spring, not currently? The pictures in the garage are not current; they were just to show how the shelves are not ideal in the garage because of lack of light. My VFTs haven't been inside yet at all this fall.
  13. TENroaches

    Help Me Brainstorm How to Keep Plants Through Winter -- Not Inside -- Frugally

    My big pots are probably a foot tall and a little over a foot across, I'd guess. I have no intension of leaving them off the ground outside for winter. The only heat source is the ol' earth at night, and they'd surely freeze away from it.
  14. TENroaches

    Help Me Brainstorm How to Keep Plants Through Winter -- Not Inside -- Frugally

    That's the big advantage of getting to keep them at home; I can put them out when the days get warmer and still bring them in at night for the freezing or frosty nights. It's a lot of work, and I found out the other day that the pots get brittle in the sun (nepenthes fell into a big mess in my...
  15. TENroaches

    Help Me Brainstorm How to Keep Plants Through Winter -- Not Inside -- Frugally

    My garage gets plenty cold. It gets below freezing, which is a worry for me. It's attached to heated rooms on two sides, but still gets below freezing, but not too far, and probably not for very long at a time. I may be able to fit all my plants on shelves in there. I'm not permitted to keep...
Back
Top