media

Hey Everyone: About a month ago, I stopped by the UNH greenhouses and saw that they had a great CP display, but it needed some help. Mostly, everything just needed to be repotted them. I contacted them and they were more than happy to have me come out - on behalf of the NECPS - to help train...

So I discovered that shrews were taking up residence in my bog that has been under cover and under snow all winter. I had set traps last night and caught a fat shrew this morning. I was also able to check out the damage more. The things have dug under several crowns and ate all the roots from...

Hey Everyone: With the recent large expansion of my CP collection, I haven't been able to keep up with my need for live sphagnum both to incorporate as media and as a top dressing. I'd like to obtain some more live sphagnum, but I wanted to ask where I can obtain it sustainably, i.e. not...

So my vft will need repotted this year -- the terra cotta pot is falling apart (I keep it outside until we start expecting conditions beyond hard frosts) and the moss growing on the media seems to be dangerously close to rising up and enveloping the vft. Currently, the plant is in the fridge...

I rescued several abused Neps from a local marajuana supply store. They were mostly dead, thankfully I was able to recover most of them, some only as cuttings. One plant had two dark green leaves, about three inches across. It took all of nine months for it to do anything. Finally it popped...

Hi! How old/big sarracenia seedlings have to be so they can be repotted? Mine are about 1-2 months old and the biggest ones are making their 5th pitcher. I have read that repotting should be done within 1-2 months after germination or betweed 3-5 true leaves. One problem is that some of the...

Bee growing Neps and other carnivores for about six years now. I grow in a small tent I made out of three grow lights and a plastic four shelf unit. N. Ventricosa was my first Nep. Since I've added a Miranda..... And I received for free several dying plants from the local marijuana supply...

These were hardened from tissue culture and are growing on live sphagnum moss. I have seen D. puchella growing in swamps together with Cephalotus but the D. leioblastus is just an experiment. D. puchella D. puchella (orange and red vein) D. leioblastus

These two are the only Mexican Pings I have left, using pure perlite and sphagnum as media. The recent cool (70s) and bright weather got them to colour up. :-O P. x 'Sethos' - I've known this hybrid to turn pink in my conditions but it's been a long time since they managed to get the correct...

Hey Everyone, I've started an bit of an experiment, albeit one that lacks precise scientific rigor. A month ago I came across the CPN sample that talks about creating a potting mix that is 1:1:1 Seramis:Lava Gravel:Lecaton. Having read a lot about the destruction of CP habitats, I decided to...

I've had quite a few moranensis develop really pale green leaves and not sure exactly why. Quick back story, the original plant suffered a small amount of crown damage and decided to develop schizophrenia (early November). In the beginning stages of this I thought some the leaves had...

Axelrod's CPs Ok new thread, and I'm going to try to confine my questions and stuff to here now that I feel like I might be starting to get the hang of things...a little. Previous threads: http://www.terraforums.com/forums/showthread.php/135461-How-am-I-doing-so-far...

I might have posted some pictures of one of my hamata's early last spring looking all wicked and mean. It responded well to moving into a moss bottomed aquarium with a lid in an unheated room at night but by late May the nights weren't doing the job well enough. I ordered a Magic Chef wine...

I've been growing Nepenthes clipeata (clone 3) and Nepenthes northiana from Wistuba since 2011 and in that time they haven't done much compared to my other Nepenthes who will have reached their second vine cutting in that time. I am growing them both in my LL chamber (which actually doesn't...

ive never tried the wesser, leaves before , but have tried several times on the apasionada (will not start on damp media for me) But the barley damp paper towel in a baggie has worked well, and only took 2 weeks to see leaves, and now at about 4 weeks, it is coming on strong , this ping...

Hello, earlier today I put together a mini-bog with my small CP collection (2 VFT's, 2 S. rubra's, & 1 purple pitcher plant gotten just yesterday from lowe's). I used the standard 1:1 ratio of peat to sand. When I got the sand yesterday, I surprisingly couldn't find playground sand at either...

I found four lava or red clay media sitting in my growing area. From top left clockwise: lava sand, red lava, unlabelled, burnt earth (fire kilned red clay) Considering input from jimscott and kulamauiman, I potted three simlar size D. dilatato-petiolaris plants in three different media (lava...

A local nursery just got some N. sibuyanensis seedlings in, and I've been interested in getting one to grow myself. I have heard that N. sibuyanensis can be a difficult grower for some, and seems to have specific requirements in terms of media, humidity, and light. I have also heard that it is...

I've put the B52 plants to sleep and removed a couple of rhizomes without any leaves. I've potted them up and placed them under T5 lights. What would you do if you have rhizomes like the following? Would you stuff the whole thing into media and hope for new growth? Or would you peel the bulb...

Thought I'd show my method for growing U. nelumbifolia, since I've had a few requests for info. Nothing special really, just a couple 5 gallon buckets. The orange one has some holes drilled in the bottom. The black one is for holding RO water. The media is pure live LFS. The plant grows in the...