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  1. B

    look at our other car

    copied from my car forum cause i'm lazy-yo! new addition to the miata. cost a little chunk of change. but it makes the hubby happy. hmmmm.... what's going on under the hood of this miata? check it out: omg! the miata is more faster than the round black thing! if you see this hideous...
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    Need to find a ballast

    I have an All Glass brand hood with a failed ballast. I've not been able to find a replacement locally (Orange Co., CA), having checked with home centers, pet stores, an aquarium shop, and electronics retail houses, and the All Glass web site was no help. The ballast is small (about 1" X 1.5" X...
  3. JB_OrchidGuy

    D. paradoxa and D. madagascariensis

    I am still trying to figure out how to bring the dew back to the Paradoxas <span style='color:red'>[Edit: actually Drosera paradoxa; species names have two parts (binomial), Genus + specific epithet, and they are singular and plural, just as they are, without any spelling changes]</span>. I was...
  4. K

    CP newbie needs help w\ Nepenthes

    So here's the deal. I bought a 135 gallon terrarium from this guy for a $100 bucks with a bunch of carnivorous plants. I was originally shopping craigslist for an empty aquarium to make an orchid terrarium for my GF, but came across this. You can see some pics here: Terrarium I've only had it...
  5. K

    CP newbie needs help w\ Sarracenia

    So here's the deal. I bought a 135 gallon terrarium from this guy for a $100 bucks with a bunch of carnivorous plants. I was originally shopping craigslist for an empty aquarium to make an orchid terrarium for my GF, but came across this. You can see some pics here: Terrarium I've only had it...
  6. DerbyCityNeps

    Creek water

    Hi, well i got this big creek in my neighbor hood. i was wondering if it was ok for CPs. i took a look at some a whil ago and it was pretty murkey but that was probably because it rained two nights before. well? Alex
  7. pingman

    question on timers and CFL's

    I just received some 26 watt CFL's to go in my terrarium hood. The bulbs came with a warning that they are not to be used with photo electric cells, dimmers, and also timers. Is there any issue with using a timer with these bulbs? Thanks, Peter
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    help! opinions wanted

    okay, so someone calls and wants a price on getting their rims painted pink at work the other day. then it dawns on me that pookie, my new beetle, might look sweeet if i painted the rims blue. perhaps to match my blue hood emblem (the old one was peeling so i bought a blue euro emblem) then...
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    CPsInAtl's Growlist

    Drosera D. capensis "Narrow" D. capensis "alba" D. capensis "red" D. adelae D. graminifolia D. x Lake Badgerup D. spatulata D. capillaris U. bisquamata U. livida U. monthanos Dionaea D. muscipula D. muscipula 'Dente' D. muscipula 'Red Dragon' Pinguicula x 'Titan' P x 1717 Sarracenia S...
  10. B

    S. minor var. okeefenokeensis "Red Head"

    A favorite and a half! A very nice Okeefenokee Giant from Ware County, Georgia! Pics in the pitcher plant forum in the Bugweed thread (pinned topics). Hood completely red, and even the white "windows" turn deep red as well. Can get quite large! Bidding starts at $15.00 USA only. Winner pays the...
  11. DerbyCityNeps

    YAY for Lowe's!

    i love Lowe's! i went there today and they had several plants. D. adaele, S. Minor, and the awesome D. Californica(but was sadly not looking very well...all brown no sign of life) i got an S. minor and a big adaele! my question is with S. minor. when i got it it was in one of those cubes and it...
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    Trouble!!!!

    I have no clue as to what to do about this. I have a good sized collection of s. oreophila. Most first came to me with very little color. When Joe Mazrimas gave me a piece of one of his, it was all green. Well, Joe's clone was definitely all green in his greenhouse. I put it out with the rest of...
  13. K

    help with a terrarium cover

    right now my terrarium cover is just some GLAD press and seal wrap with clothes pins holding the gaps together... but it keeps falling off when it gets too wet is there like a plastic cover or hood i can buy somewhere??
  14. JB_OrchidGuy

    JB Orchid guys Growlist

    JB_Orchidguy's Grow List Updated 05/08/13 Aroids Amorphalus bulbifer Sacratum venustum Darlingtonia D. californica Drosera D. adelae D. binata D. capensis 'Alba' D. capilaris 'Broad Leaf' D. filiformis variation filiformis D. filiformis variation traceyi D. multifiada D. palacea ssp rosa D...
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    car photo shoot... sort of

    yeaa! i got my blue VW emblem for the hood today. after fighting with it for WAAAAAY longer than it should have taken, i finally got it on. the chrome on the original was peeling, so i had to get a new one anyway. i cleaned up pookie, nathan cleaned up the celica and we took some pictures. here...
  16. bucky78

    Bucky78s Growlist

    Here's my growlist. Where the plants are in red indicates that I have extras that are available. PM me if interested in trades etc. Drosera D. Filliformis ssp. Filliformis D. Filliformis ssp. Tracyi D. Filliformis Florida Red D. Intermedia D. Rotundifolia VFTs 1955 Typical 1979 A2 Akai Ryu...
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    Freezer Neps Part 2

    As some of you may know, I've puchased a chest freezer a while back to turn into an ultrahighland environment. Well everything was going very smooth until the thing ran into issues keeping cool. After getting it fixed, the project was back in action nearly 6 months later. Plants: 1 N. rajah 2"...
  18. C

    Intense HEAT!

    Hiya i have some plans for a big 5 gal pot w carnivores, (almost a bog garden), but... my green house get very hot!, today was from 90f to 98f, what to cold it a litle?, i tink to put a big fan on it, but i wanan put carnivores, can i put a sarracenia/drosera binata/pings in the green house...
  19. F

    Almost finished tank

    So yeah here some pics. I need to get a temp/humidity gauge and a fogger maybe. I also need to paint the inside of the hood flat white. Fell free to ask questions and make comments
  20. swords

    Hydnophytum & Myrmecodia

    Hey folks I scored one each of these rarer ant plants and I was wondering who else here might also be growing them? Hydophytum formicarium Myrmecodia tuberosa I have three environments in which I can grow them, cold highland, (on Wistuba's site he shows some family of these ant plants growing...
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