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SO, last week I made hypertufa rocks out of plaster mixed with lots of perlite and peat(it was fun and messy) After trial and error, I finally got the consistency down to what I wanted, and even made a slot for the plants to be put in before plaster set. here is the result! P. moctezumae(I had...

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My name is Juergen and I live in a small city near Hamburg, Germany. I'd like to say hello to everyone in this forum! Although I know (and read) this forum already since two years from time to time, I have registered only a few days ago. I'm the owner of a few in-ground mini-bogs with hardy...

even before we bought plane tickets and reserved a hotel room for 4 nights and spending the better part of a grand, before the wifes shopping out here in Seattle, i was figuring there is about a 90% chance that i wasnt gonna here anything i didnt already know......which is what i heard.....keep...

I have been neglecting my plants lately so I snapped some pics while feeding/watering. These are my two favorite dews I have right now... D. regia - got this one from a secret shopper friend at the NECPS show. Really starting to take off. It loves my highland conditions and intermittent...

Having a decent amount of free time over my winter break, I want to finally put in some effort and get a decent terrarium set up for some of my plants. I plan to have the terrarium itself next to a sunny window back at school so it will be getting both natural and artificial lighting. I will be...

I promised myself I wouldn't get any more carnivores this season. However, one more has reared it's beautiful tendril and tantalized my addiction. Drosera regia - I have read through as many of the old threads I could here on TF and I tried searching ICPS (to no avail ???), so I have done a...

I'm a bit confused on the care. I've done a lot of reading on a few different forums and have seen them growing on windowsills, in terrariums, out of rocks, in driftwood, sitting on tables outside, etc so needless to say I've so enough to confuse me to the point where i really do not know what...

Just because I'm sort of trying to gauge how well they do strictly indoors, does anyone have any pictures of Dionaea plants grown entirely indoors with nothing but artificial light? Thanks to anyone that does!

Soil media matters, apparently. I had an existing pot with an S. minor seedling. I was then given a boatload of seeds that just got done with cold stratification. I spread the seeds out among the existing pot that had a sand and peat mix, and a fresh pot with LFS. They are both under the same...

Hey y'all - thought I might share a pic of this S. Mardi Gras I have. It's on my windowsill right now going dormant. To be quite honest I haven't been raising it under ideal conditions. I got it about three months ago and had it situated about 15" from a 23 watt cfl bulb. I wasn't even giving it...

Hi all! This is my first post on the forums! Over the months, I've learned most of what I know from snooping on threads on this board. I've been dabbling in CP cultivation since early spring, but recently I got serious about it (read: "got bitten by the bug") and got myself a grow rack and...

So I just finished my greenhouse! :banana2: And I moved my plants in, but I noticed the sunburns on the leaves of one of my Nepenthes. Before the greenhouse, they were in a terrarium with artificial light. So will the plants get better and used to the light? ???

I have a open 55gal aquarium about 4 inches from a south facing sliding glass door, i also have a 42 watt 2800 lumens 6500k cfl about 8 inches from my nepenthes (they're small) and a 26 watt 1100 lumens 5000k cfl about 5-6 inches from my drosera's/vft (i have my other vfts outside, wanna see how...

Hi, I'm sure that everyone here has either read or believes that fertilisers are harmful to carnivorous plants. It's often cited that plants developed the ability to catch prey as their natural environment was/is devoid of nutrients; however, this doesn't necessarily mean that they are...

Due to my paph. starting to bloom I am unable to grow it under artificial lights. Now my best option for lighting is a north side window and a west side window. Which one would be best to try and grow it?

Hi, I have owned a Heliamphora heterodoxa x ionassii for some time and it has been placed in various location, but always under artificial lighting until recently. It now resides on my kitchen windowsill we no artificial light. It has been there for a few weeks now and since moving it has come...

I was recently challenged to prove that artificial lighting was inferior to the direct sunlight. I've been echoing what the experts say because I don't have years of experience. So I googled it and came across this article. The guy refuted the article and said it was bogus. Whadda think...

Hi there! This sundew is one of my favourites by far and I would like to see her in flower (so far just my wishful thinking;-))). I searched this and other forums and ws for more information about flowering, but with little success. This is my first season with this species. My plant started...

Cultivation of pygmy Drosera Jan Flísek and Kamil Pásek Pygmy Drosera comprise up a peculiar group that include the smallest sundews - small growth is a typical characteristic of this group. Most pygmy Drosera are found in southwestern areas of Western Australia. Only D. pygmaea is found in...