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hello, My name is Jay Austin, and I am addicted to carnivorous plants. I am a professional horticulturist at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden in Richmond, VA where among other things I manage the collection of CP's. We have a nice collection of Sarracenia that was originally installed in the...

So the wife says I need to get my plants out of the garden tub. I also want to grow Ghost Peppers and other veggies, so a greenhouse seems like the next step. I have ordered a 8x12 Palram Essence green house and have started the build process. I did alot of research, and this one has good...

The International Nepenthes Grex Registry (INGR) was an idea conceived and developed in an international forum conference on the internet forum www.pitcherplants.proboards.com in the later months of 2006. In August of the next year the proposal was presented at the Sarawak Nepenthes Summit 2007...

Well, the plants seem finally settled in for the 'winter' here in San Diego, and it's even been 60F by day/40F by night the past few days. Usually the coldest week of the year is the one between Christmas and New Years. With it brings tidying up the plants, and thinking about spring. I've...

As I've had interested responses in other posts I've made of Bryophytes, I'll continue with a series of photographs I took on Christmas day. These are all mosses that are growing on garden walls on a property in Scotland. There's a few species on each photo.

Hi! i have a used Kent 60 gpd RO/DI system I don't need and am looking to make a trade for some plants. The unit has had the cartridges and membrane recently replaced. It includes an auto shutoff solenoid and float switch which will allow it to automatically keep the collection vessel full...

With it being Black friday and all, Im gonna go and see if any of the remaining garden stores around town will have anything worth a look. However, Ive been really curious to see how these netted Hydroponics pots work for nepenthes. Does anybody use these/have any information on using them for...

Hello, I have some S. alabamensis F1 plants that are very special to me. I received them from a friend at a botanical garden and would eventually like to produce seeds from them. It's important for me to get them through the winter. Since they aren't as commonly cultivated as the other Sarrs...

Hi everyone, I'm very new here and would like to see if I can trade with some members for CP plants or seeds: serracenia, drosera, nepenthes, etc...anything is fine as I only have 1 Serracenia and 1 Nepanthes. I hope to trade within the next 2-3 weeks. We can send something of equal postage...

Hello everyone ! I think some of you may already know me from the CPUK foum where i've been a member now for almost 2 years, but for those of you who don't.... I got into carnivorous plants quite by accident when i went to collect some free plant pots offered in an advert, and i also came away...

Last year I started a bog out of several containers and pool liner. Because of surrounding normal garden limy soil and possible contamination of the bog through heavy rain it is constructed now above normal level. That’s what it looked like today. And that far at the beginning. just to...

Recorded temperature through the day. Although, the average temperature is around 73 during the day and in the 60's at night. High - 77 Low - 66 Humidity High - 100 (Although the humidity seems to drop 10% every 3 hours or so. It starts to drop when the light turns on. Had I not spray the tank...

Here's something you don't see very often, let alone on CP forums: I grow a lot of novelty veggies in my garden, and this year something rather new for me, glass gem corn. Glass gem corn by hawken.carlton, on Flickr Glass gem corn by hawken.carlton, on Flickr Glass gem corn by hawken.carlton...

I haven't been on here in years and I'm surprised to remember my password. Anyways I was eating some oranges and collected about 11 seeds in total. I removed their protective layer and placed them in a damp paper towel in a Ziploc bag and left them. A month passed by and I totally forgot about...

Does anyone know the name of this hybrid ? I really want it apart of my garden but do not know the name.. <a href="http://s740.photobucket.com/user/kendrickalejandre/media/my%20plants/2678162F-513F-4F81-BAAD-1FDAAE6B5F16.png_zpsj5jz2btn.jpeg.html" target="_blank"><img...

So a bout 2 months ago the misses and i got our son a little bog garden for the yard and i put my king henry vft in it for him and heres how it looks now.

With all that's in the realm of possibility, how do you grow your plants? Terrarium, greenhouse, bog garden, windowsill? Here's a link showing all my setups: https://www.behance.net/natehollis

**I will preface this by saying I am not an expert, I have only been growing CPs for 5 years (but only really got into them in the last year) and there are many people here with vastly more experience. This is a summary of my experience and what I've learned about these horrid creatures. If you...

Soooooo, I made the mistake to choose my Pings based on looks. I read in Savage Garden that Esseriana is a tropical ping. Pirouette is a hybrid and I couldn't find Tina anywhere. It also says temperate shouldn't go on a windowsill. So, I just want to make sure this three pings are compatible...

Sooo bought this, started using them, but don't know if they are legit. Can anyone tell me why they look so different from the picture? and did i get the same thing? There's also something growing in it. thanks everyone! Here's the advertised pic Here's what i got Close up (with something...