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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...

Hello, my name is Nick I am from New Mexico and I have a D. Capensis, D. Capilaris, and a D. spatulata. I also have a Fly Trap "Toothy" that I picked up. I'm super excited to participate here and get more plants!!! Nick

From Sydney, Australia I've been growing CPs for about a year now. I currently grow just the basics - standard Venus fly trap, drosera capensis, nepenthes ventricosa. Although I am most interested in sundews. So yeah, always looking to expand my collection :D Of course, being in Australia...

The New England Carnivorous Plant Society is pleased to announce the Field Trip schedules to follow the 2012 International Carnivorous Plant Society conference! There will be a few different choices for field trips after the Conference is over: There will be “Group A” which will start with...

The title says it all! I traded with some of you last year and built an amazing collection of flytrap cultivars. I moved to Indiana in early August, left the plants on a private patio, and returned a week later to find that someone stole everything that was there. Fortunately, I was out of...

My venus fly trap was doing great until it started to bloom now that the flower bud have almost bloomed it looks like the plant is dying.. is the process of blooming causing the plant so much stress that its killing it?

Hi i'm joshua from california, i have been growing carnivorous plants since june 2011, i'm new in this i start when i was playing plant vs zombies and i see the purple venus fly trap that eats all the zombies jaja and said i want one of those plants then i investigate and i buy my first plant...

I think I have this at a local lowes. To my understanding its nutrient free and neutral in pH so I thought i might use it instead of sand or perilte which is unavailable. The trouble is, is that this medium is designed to absorb and release nutrients. Will it harm my plants? Can i use it on...

Hi there, I'm a horticulture major at NC State University. I've been growing CPs seriously for about 3 years, but I've had Sarracenia and Venus Fly Traps on and off since I was little. My ultimate goal with my degree is to open my own nursery, specializing in Tropicals, Cold-hardy Tropicals, and...

So, some of you know that we recently bought a house... So, after getting some work done at the new location, and prep at the old location, we finally have gotten one greenhouse moved. I'm going to go ahead and treat the wood since it is empty and such before starting to get it all set up...

Hey everyone my name is Shane and I live in Johannesburg south Africa I have 3 drosera capensis sundews 2 huge fly traps and millions of tiny ones 2 pitcher Plants 1 mistery and the other a leucophylla and tomorrow I will be getting a nepenthes and a purpurea please I would love to know more...

I was up in San Fran and decided to stop by Peter D Amato's nursery/collection and take some pics and get some new additions too!! I forgot to bring my D70 so I only got a few Iphone pics. Nepenthes eymae struttin its amazing lowers. This clone was the first ever plant stumbled upon...no...

Video of me driving up and over hawk Hill, adjacent to the Golden Gate Bridge. There's nowhere to fly and land a plane here. I still wish I could, though! Anyways, enjoy the view. :awesome: With the sound OFF! :-)) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRhIKN9OWVU

Hello! The fly population is booming at my house right now and yesterday I came online searching for diy fly traps. Of course, a link showed up in the list for a venus fly trap and on a whim I clicked on it just to look at the pictures. I've always thought these lil guys were fascinating but...

I was on vacation in the UK back in August and I went to visit Kew Gardens: The temperate house: The palm house: Chilean wine palm, the largest indoor plant in the world: Some kind of flower: Cyclamen: Passiflora sp: Lithops: Waterlily flower: Waterlily flower: Giant...

Aloha everyone, I live in Hawaii. I've only been growing cps for about two months unless you count my failed venus fly traps which died due to my lack of knowledge. I recently received a death cubed D. capensis, and with a new found appreciation and admiration for nature I did my homework...

The ones you won't mind them getting caught... Male mozzie? Big fat fly The ones you would like them to get away scot-free...

well a couple months ago for some reason i planted one of my vfts in a jar. it died, but something weird happened. one day i looked at the jar and i saw a new vft all green with new little heads. im not sure what to make of this, do you?

Hello everyone, I just collected a whole bunch of seeds from my d. indica - 15 packets of I don't even know how many seeds. I got this plant from a seed SASE here on TF last summer, so I thought I would spread its progeny the same way in my first giveaway. Sign up if interested and send me a...

I came across this very interesting letter while researching Drosera that quite frankly makes me smile. It's a publication from 1873 which compares the attractive dew of the Sundew to the temptations of sin. Whether you be a religious man, or irreligious, it's still worth a read...