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Hi, I am curious about whether anyone here has attempted to grow red Aldrovanda, Australian or Hungarian, and were you successful? They seem to be for the most part, unobtanium. Other attempts to find out and or obtain some have been unsuccessful or are stalled. While on the subject, does...

Hello everyone I recently attempted to germinate cephalotus seeds and im seeing the first signs of life. Didi succeed oris this a random seed that happened to stray into my pot. IMG_20130626_160626 by ace209er, on Flickr IMG_20130626_160727 by ace209er, on Flickr

Yes, indeed, the one with the uncreative name has returned, with yet another question. (I have so many questions. :p) I'm sure all of you (or most of you) are familiar with the "leaf pulling" procedure for Venus flytraps: dig up the plant, pull down an outside leaf with some white base, plant...

Hey guys, I was given a couple cuttings today of a N. maxima x bongso. I have never attempted to root a cutting before and was hoping for some advice. I am well aware there are plenty of different ways to go about doing this and I've done some research online/ in books. I've decided to root...

I'm a long-time plant hobbyist, mostly have kept various epiphytic cacti, especially Rhipsalis, but lately I've gotten "into" the primitive plants like Selaginellas and Liverworts and of course, the CP's. My intro to the CP obsession came with me seeing various carnivores occasionally offered...

Happy New Years to everyone. I found this sight while seaching CP and terrariums. I've been interested in CP for some years now and have attempted a CP bog garden several years ago but failed due the drought in GA. Santa brough me a small H Potter terrarium so I started looking at keeping...

A couple months ago I did some water propagation with a few leaf pullings/flower stalk cuttings. They sat under T5's for somewhere between 2 and 3 months before being potted. Here are some macros of them. The "10 days later" photos were taken today. Here are a few still underwater, where...

Hi, new grower here(no surprise) from the gulf coast of Texas, where its either hot or raining. Not much In between, weather wise. Like most when I was young I owned a small typical VFT. Recently I've gotten back Into the hobby when I officially declared wwr on the flying insect invaders that...

I got these two little guys as tiny litttle nymphs and now that there about 1" long, I thought it was time for some pics! I also got lucky and ended up with a male and a female, so I might eventually end up with a lot of little ghost mantises. I have kept these two togather in a small aquarium...

Over the course of about three hours this morning and early afternoon, i had the chance to take some shots of an opening Opuntia flower. The flower bud on the right is just about to unfurl, while the one on the left should be opening in a couple of days. I took a series of overhead and...

To those of you familiar with pH meters, I would like to pose an odd question. For some reason, I have recently had some difficulty in calibrating my HM Digital pH-200 meter with any of the testing solutions. When I attempted it, I could not manually calibrate the numbers by a long shot -- 4.01...

Up for auction is a pot of D. meristocaulis - the South American pygmy sundew. I received these t/c plants in a trade last fall but quickly realized that I did not have the time to properly care for them and my subsequent neglect allowed the LFS to both dry out & later to completely grow over...

Thought I'd tack on to this thread to give some suggestions for those who may have struggled to ease the pain and quicken the learning curve... for reference, the flower tested on was from an H. Puchelle. I highly recommend checking out the following links first...

I saw today that my Darlingtonia pitchers were slanted sideways and on further inspection found that they have gone flacid (for lack of a better word) and are sligthly browning. This has happened to both new pitchers that have developed since it woke up from dormancy and the one developing at...

Don't take this serious guys, its meant to be lighthearted. When I can, I'll make the video that adds the tone to it. But seriously, don't take this serious. You know when you have one of those really great and happy days, or when you get so lucky you don’t even know how it happened...

I was starting up the computer, business as usual. There was some error message and I ignored it. I logged on and saw that the screen had shrunk a bit. so I went to the control panel and attempted to expand the pixels, thinking maybe that 'Thanel changed the settings. I dragged the bar over a...

Here is a shot from this afternoon of a female Nepenthes ventricosa flower, from a plant that I grew from a seedling on a windowsill back in 2004-05. It stopped "pitchering" and attempted to flower a few months back; the bloom aborted for some odd reason -- and the plant has since grown another...

Has anyone ever attempted to cross the different genera within this family? Like Sarracenia × Heliamphora, Darlingtonia × Sarracenia, etc.? I've always wondered if something like D. californica × S. psittacina would be possible since they resemble each other so much, but it actually turns out...

Hi everyone, Not 100% sure on the rules regarding linking to other forums due to sponsors etc, although I'm not trying to sell anything or promote anyone. I just want to share my experiences & don't want to type all this out again and if I need to edit it, don't want to be running around all...

I bought this plant from Lowes and attempted to do a transplant into a bigger pot, is it big enough? The peat moss I bought came in a huge bag, does this stuff go bad? Thanks for any info..