pitchers

Bog ants all over VFT. I have see them flood sarracenia pitchers, but this is a first for me on the VFT, haha. https://flic.kr/p/uUkjUe

I have had this N. ventricosa (arist x thorelli) for a long time now, about 7-8 months. I originally got it from Paul as a generous gift, and when I first got it, it was green like its sibling. However during acclimation it soon turned cherry red, and I thought it was just horrible sunburn, as...

As usual, I moved a lot of plants onto the porch for the summer, where I also grow a lot of vegetables and herbs. The neighborhood squirrels have dug up seedlings, overturned pots, chewed the pitchers off Nepenthes, and this morning I witnessed one munching on the bullate leaf of a Dischidia...

It was sunny today so I figured I should take some of the plants out for photos. N. maxima 'Wavy Leaf': The horizontal pitcher at 6:00 was one of the originals that came with the plant when I got it 5 months ago, as was the now-dead one at 3:00. Quite long-lived pitchers. N. glabrata: This...

Hey everyone! Im a relatively new CP grower, i got my first plant 2 years ago and have been slowly adding to the collection via this amazing website and some other sources. But im having an issue with my pitcher plants, specifically my leucophylla. I dont remember seeing this last year(when I...

My friend has had a nepenthes for years that's simply labeled "Red". It's clearly a maxima hybrid, but he doesn't know anything about its origins. Maxima x sanguinea wouldn't surprise me, but it would only be a guess. Both the leaves and pitchers are quite red and the plant is extremely...

I lost quite a few plants this winter but I have a Sarracenia that is sending up much smaller pitchers than usual. Should I dig it up and cut away the part of the rhizome that is dead or should I just leave it be. I'm a bit concerned that the dead part may have some kind of 'rot' that will...

I've decided to trade off my Seed Grown N. aristolochioides x diatas. The plant is about 8" tall and 9" or 10" across. This is an extremely rare hybrid produced by Hortus Botanicus shortly before they closed shop. I don't think I've seen photos of another one in cultivation. The grows happily...

Carnivorous Plant Newsletter, volume 44, number 2, June 2015 is available for download as a PDF for ICPS members on the ICPS web site: http://icps.clubexpress.com/ Hard copy was mailed to ICPS members on May 21. CONTENTS CPN editors Do bears disperse Darlingtonia? The intricate Pinguicula...

Okay, I try, I really do, to keep my plants labeled. But somehow in moving some plants to the new bog last year I must have lost one. This little guy, not many pitchers and only one flower is among the rubra collection. The sarrs I know are there are jonesii, jonesii f. heterophylla...

I have a mixed planting of sarrs in my front bogs. They bloom sequentially which makes it easier when trying to hand pollinate and bag separate species. Right now my purps and flava are finished, the rubra are in full flower and the psittacina and minors are just swelling their flower buds...

I have to make space with my plants, and I have five rubras too many. I have no idea what variety/subspecies they are; I'll post a picture or two here tomorrow. They're three or four years old and been producing pitchers 6-7 inches long. Winners will pay 6 dollars shipping preferably by paypal...

N. [X splendiana x (veitchii x max] x veitchii is flowering female. The flowers popped before I thought they would, and the pollen I had lined up isn't ready yet. I need pollen asap. Flowers are open and fragrant. She is receptive now. 50/50 seed split. In case you're wondering....the peri...

Today I noticed that my Darlingtonia appears to be wilting. The mature pitchers as well as the developing ones appear to be drying up. The plant looked fine just a few days ago. It has been overcast the last few days and it rained a few days ago, so I haven't watered the plant in a few days...

This is the first season my Marston Dwarf is starting to show it's mature colors. Is it too much to hope it will add some ornata type veining?

Well, I told myself when I moved to SoCal that I needed to choose among Edibles, CPs, or Succulents. Well, this year I added... well, I guess I failed and have them all, oops! I just gotta grow. I've still got more seeds that I'm waiting on, not that I need more plants, but here's the ones...

EP's catalogue is coming back online in a couple of weeks and I'm thinking about picking up a nep with dark, ideally black pitchers, after browsing some of the threads here. What kind of species or parentage should I be looking for? Obviously it won't guarantee a plant with black pitchers, but...

For the past week its been raining like mad, then a few hours ago the temp dropped down to 30. I walked out to the bog and found that every single sarracenia had severe frost damage to the growing pitchers. Large splotches of dark green show where they were frozen. all growth tips have been...

I am giving away two - possibly three pods of seeds collected yesterday of my cross of N. Helen X N. spectabilis. Nepenthes Helen is a Borneo Exotics single select clone from their cross of N. spathulata X N. spectabilis "giant". The N. spectabilis is a seed-grown plant that came from Leilani...

Hey guys. I got this plant a couple of months ago as a freebie in an order from a BE retailer. It was labeled N x 'Rokko'. I am familiar with Nepenthes 'Rokko', and in my opinion this plant looks nothing like it. Overall, the plant is very small, and produces lovely little pitchers. As they are...