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So, after chugging along happily for three years, after growing from a little baby plant to a massive green monster that overflowed with pitchers, my cephalotus decided to kick it. I had not watered the plant for some time. I usually let the ceph dry out very thoroughly before I water again...

I've always wondered this. How does one start a terrarium without drainage? Don't CP's hate root rot? Wouldn't a terrarium induce a lack of proper drainage and root aeration? I'm hoping that some experienced CP keepers would be able to clue me in on this. I currently have a setup where the pot...

I was luckly enough to get a couple of small chunks of Utricularia from a LFS and was wondering if they can grow on a very damp CP (50/50) substraight? I have some extra CP substright that I am tempted to try to keep some of the utricularia in a flower pot with the substright completly...

Hi guys, I posted pics of my new ceph the other day. I noticed that some of the pitchers were turning slightly wrinkled and some new buds were turning a bit brown. I read on the internet that acclimation to a new climate is normal? I've been keeping the soil moist (no tray method because it...

Well I was in need of getting my mystery snails a good source of calcium and I ran across a technique on the applesnail.net forum for this DIY calcium brick / weekend feeder for snails (or fish) that anyone can do in a few minutes. So I played mad scientist tonight and took pics along the way...

Good morning! I've got a bowl containing five recumbent Sarrs... (Same bowl as in the "winterizing" thread.) Two of the sarrs, S. purpurea ssp. purpurea f. heterophylla and S. purpurea ssp. venosa var montana, have been struggling. It's been about two months for the heterophylla and about one...

Hey Y'all - I have a P. Esseriana that I got a week or two ago. I got it bare root, and a few days after I potted it up, a fuzzy moldy-looking thing developed on the surface of the media. Mr. SDCPs tells me it's damping off fungus. I took his advice and let the media dry up a little - I...

Hello, I tried to find a thread on this, but was unable to, so I will ask it here if it is ok. I am currently trying to grow 3 different Pitcher Plant varieties that I bought off of eBay. I have them in Styrofoam cups and under two 6500K (1600 Lumens each) CFL lights. As Pictured below... I...

this plant was a headache, i originally purchased the seed from Lowrie several years ago.....even with the hand holding of some experianced tuberous growers i had been un able to get the whole pot to go dormant at the same time....as some plants would start going dormant others would be in...

For many years, the ones that grew and eventually died at my balcony - I attributed the reason to the fact that N. adnata is found at altitudes of 600-1200m...so cool conditions must be preferred since the demise is ALWAYS during the hot season (May-August). I thought of giving up on this...

I got a parodia herzogii at target 3 days ago. I cannot wait for the flower!!!:banana2: I hope it will not rot.

As you may well know, I torture my plants something awful. I leave them outside in the scorching San Diego sunshine, and water them once a week (in a cocoa chunk + lfs with some perlite mix) without misting them except for with neem if I see any bugs. I've bought plants from the U.S. as well...

This is my first success with any kind of orchid. I've been wanting this one for about 5 years. I just got a couple this past Christmas. Thanks to some expert advice from the grower, The Wild Orchid Company, I have blooms! :) H. radiata has too many common names to keep up with. It's called...

6months ago if there is anyone who could kill primuliflora it was me. Most of the time it was rot. Many people complained about not being able to cultivate this plant, so I decided to experiment. My new ping was dying anyway so I looked at the ping in its natural habitat, and saw it growing in...

First, I recenetly recieved approximately 6 N. andamana seeds from a generous member of this forum. does anyone have any idea approximately how long I should be waiting expecting these to germinate? Second, my only nep is a death cube rescue N. Ventrata. It is doing great and is even...

Well, I have an update on trying to move my CP collection to Canada, and I am ready to let you know what my experience has been. My situation is that I am moving my entire household from the USA to Canada to attend graduate school. I have 40 carnivorous plants about half of which are CITES...

So after the past several posts, my garden is only taking a decline. It's not too much water, or too little. There's always about 1" of water in all of the trays. Contrary to the overcast day, they typically get lots and lots of bright and direct sun. I only use distilled water, or collected...

As previously posted, I have terrible, annoying, black bugs that are disgusting and overcoming every pot in my collection. It was suggested that I flood them out, unfortunately, I don't have the water resources to do that. Upon further contemplation, I recalled how they died instantaneously upon...

If anyone personally knows Adam (zero) please contact him, he has a heli division that has been at his local post office for a several days now... His PM box is also full and he hasn't logged on in a bit.... Id hate to see his division just rot away at the PO Its a particularly nice division...

Okey, here's what's going on: I have 4 cacti, which I cant get pics of, (its a long story) I cant really identify, and I want to use their pot for a bunch of CPs. Cacti 1 is, I believe an Echinocereus. Cacti 2 is a type of (very spikey) ping pong padle cactus. I know there is a better name, but...