pests

Hello everyone, figured I'd pop in and post a small update from the Mediterranean now that we're finally having some nice spring weather. I'm happy to say that nearly all my CPs made it through their first winter and are slowly waking up :banana2: I did lose one Sarracenia, but considering it...

I lost a lot of my temperate collection to fungus gnat larvae and root rot this last winter. One plant I lost was a Oreophila with 26" pitchers. I've never experienced such decimation before, and I don't want to experience it again. I've cleaned my grow area, removed all the old pots full of...

My success and appreciation of leaf-pulling as a propagation method for Mexican and other tropical Pinguicula species and their hybrids has gradually improved as I spend more time and gain more experience working with the technique and modifying my methods to discover nuances to its...

I have lots of Sphagnum growing in my pots outside - not as much inside. I want to bring some cuttings in, but I'm wary of bringing pests into a warm, sheltered environment. There's already a population of miniature slugs that are constantly messing up my smaller plants, not to mention some...

I've had this N. ventricosa for almost a 18 months now and it's starting to show signs of discomfort. Pests? It doesn't look like it. I'm wondering if the roots were becoming soggy from the old media. I transplanted it into fresh LFS and orchid bark like the rest of my plants. My daytime...

I've been thinking of the best way to raise my new Nepenthes collection that I'll be working on, and I think I just came up with a killer idea. First, I need to a way to keep the humidity up, which generally suggests a relatively sealed environment. Second, I need a way to provide light. My...

While looking around my plants to see what is still alive, I looked really closely for gemmae but instead of gemmae... I found pests. D: they are near the center of the plants... are they aphids or something? any suggestions on what to do? Thanks. ---------- Post added at 09:24 PM...

http://terraforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=116363 This year there has been a massive invasion of the invasive brown marinated stinkbug in the northeast and mid atlatic regions, soon they with spread like wildfire throughout the US. :thumbdown: Which CPs seem to catch the most of these...

I'm toying with the idea and found a hobbyist selling some seeds of dews I'd like to try, specifically: D. aliciae, D. capillaris, and D. pulchella. I've also been wanting to try germinating really any CP from seed so I think this would be a good opportunity to attempt it while not burning a...

I recently moved my N. Fusca outside for the summer(I take it in when it gets too hot though,) and it has started to look like the leaves are both decaying and wilting. Could it be too much light, or could there be something else,(no pests on last checkup) such as stress?

Can someone diagnose my plants for me? Growing in a 50 gal terrarium under 3 ft T10 lights about a foot away. Other Nepenthes growing strong right next to these with seemingly no side effects. I first thought pests, but generally the damage is much more irregular with bugs. My second...

Okay. So I've replanted everything maybe, a few days ago. Fresh media, pure water, brand new pots. Plants were soaked first. Whole 9 yards. At first, a couple plants' new growth wilted a bit. And I figured they just had a bad reaction. But the browning problem is happening again and I just, want...

PICTURES (After My Grand RePotting!) So, some of you may know that I've had a season from hell- First pests, and then evidently bad peat! So, today, I finally had everything aligned. Fresh, brand new 1-gallon sized pots. A fresh bale of peat, 20 gallons of distilled water (the fish guy at the...

http://www.uiweb.uidaho.edu/so-id/entomology/Benefical_Insects.htm Some of the photos were replaced if not the best quality. Indiscriminately dousing plants with harsh insecticides whenever a bug is seen near your plants will also kill many of the these bugs. Neem is good to use. The bug...

http://organicgardening.about.com/od/pestcontrol/a/spraysforaphids.htm Tomato Leaf Spray Tomato plants, as members of the nightshade family, contain toxic compounds called alkaloids in their leaves. When the leaves of tomato plants are chopped, they release their alkaloids. When the alkaloids...

Slugs, to more specific.. Found about 5 of them when I was working on the grow box today. But none of them compared to the size of this behemoth. Guess it's time to start working on slug removal methods.. :evil:

So I've had my cobra plant for two or three years now. It's done well so far. I'm proud that I've kept it alive. Anyway, I've noticed a few of their "heads" have become pruny. Like someone stuck a straw in them and sucked the life from them. I've never ever seen this before. Could this be too...

This year, for whatever reason, has been the worst year in my memory for slimy pests. Perhaps it's been the first real wet Winter and Spring we've had for years in California. Who knows? Well, I was seeing peculiar damage to new Sarracenia pitchers and couldn't quite tell what had been doing it...

For me, this year has already proved to be the most difficult in regard to the number of pests I've had to deal with. I don't know if it's the rain we're getting here in Northern California, but for some reason I'm just inundated with problems. I haven't been growing Sarrs for too long, only...

As I'm sure at least a handful of people on this forum get imports from foreign sources from time to time (be they large B.E. shipments or individual heliamphora.de buys), can you clear up what I'm seeing on a lot of other forums about USDA and border control destroying or sending back most...