cultivation

If you're wondering why I picked this title, I don't know, it seemed fitting. So I decided that this year I am going to get either my first Ceph or first Heli, maybe both. I've read almost everything about the cultivation of these and I'm ready. My problem is that I can't decide what to get...

Has anybody heard of Drosera huegelii being in cultivation? It looks like a fascinating plant, but I haven't seen any references to it being grown by hobbyists at all...?

I was extremely suprised to see that my D. camporupestris flowered and actually produced several fairly large seeds while I was at school. There are still more flower pods ripening at the moment, so you'll hopefully get more than 10 seeds. This sundew is still quite rare in cultivation in the...

Drosera trinervia seed Drosera trinervia is one of the easier to cultivate of the winter growing South African Drosera. It has the distinction of being the most numerous and wide spread of the South African species despite the experience of D. capensis in cultivation. When the plants go...

The Curious World of Carnivorous Plants: A Comprehensive Guide to Their Biology and Cultivation by Wilhelm Barthlott, Stefan Porembski, Rüdiger Seine, and Inge Theisen is a translation of their popular 2004 book, Karnivoren: Biologie und Kultur Fleischfressender Pflanzen, a title which has...

Last year, based on somewhat of a hunch (from reading threads that a number of people who grew U. longifolia on a windowsill had flowers while those who grew under lights - often did not), I placed a U. longifolia on my east-facing windowsill .... and flowers - lots of them! Last September, I...

Hi guys, Some of you may remember my enthusiastic post about my first nepenthes flowering. I got some aristolochioides pollen from a local canadian grower and fertilized it early in december. I had hoped that what I was seeing was the start of a fruit and maybe a small chunk of viable seed...

After doing research, I found that there is not much cultivation information on N. burbidgeae X edwardsiana. This plant definitely is on my want list. From what I have read, 1. This hybrid can grow in lowland conditions. Someone on this forum accidently put this plant in a lowland tank...

Hello everyone, I have started an experiment! I noticed that in many of the photos of D. filiformis growing in the wild the plants are growing in pure silica... But in cultivation, people grow this plant in varying substrates such 1:1 peat:silica, sphagnum, etc. So, what I have done is potted...

Hello friends, I've got two genetically different Pinguicula caerulea plants. Both are flowering with two flowers on each at the moment. They have not opened, but I want to be SURE and cross-pollinate them correctly so I can get seed to share. There are not many NA pings in cultivation, so I...

... specifically, the poaching of carnivorous plants. We were instructed to pick a controversial topic and research it and provide an unbiased, neutral presentation of both sides. Of course, I had to make things difficult on myself and make sure I involved carnivorous plants. First thing that...

D. muscipula 'Canine Calamity!' Discovered just last weekend. It occurs naturally on the sidewalks of New Orleans, making it a uniquely hardy specimen. I am interested to see how this cultivar fares in cultivation, as I can imagine that the toothy appendages will prove to be quite a safety...

Hi peeps, Anyone living in the States know how he is? He has been a great friend - helping me with the postage of my books and sharing cultivation tips, so I am getting concerned (in fact, worried) about his absence here. I tried sending him emails since October last year but there has not been...

I was just curious as to whether the striped HL N. veitchii can be grown as a housplant...perhaps under lights. I am considering getting one but am reluctant to put it in my HL chamber because I find that most of my intermediate HL neps don't do well with my 65F winter day temps, and from what...

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...

Most of you know about NASC. For those of you who don't I want to take this opportunity to bring awareness to a great organization that is doing a lot to save the plants we love. The mission of the North American Sarracenia Conservancy is to serve as a living record of the taxonomic...

So, after chugging along happily for three years, after growing from a little baby plant to a massive green monster that overflowed with pitchers, my cephalotus decided to kick it. I had not watered the plant for some time. I usually let the ceph dry out very thoroughly before I water again...

Back from dormancy some of my Drosera trinervia have regained or surpassed their pre-dormancy growth sizes. Once again I let the medium dry out completely for at least four weeks. Dormancy started maybe six weeks or more later than usual. You wouldn't know that a little over two weeks ago...

I've been growing some of these Utrics for approximately 1.5 years (yup - a noob) and have already gone through multiple trials & tribulations. Following some discussions with a grower on another forum (& a few on Terra), we thought it would be a good idea to start a discussion thread on the...

Many years ago I obtained a clone of a plant called, Drosera binata var. dichotoma and recently I have been nostalgic for a clone with similar attributes to those I remember. All clones I've seen recently have not had these same traits. The plant I'm looking for had predominantly green leaves...