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I have to tell you. Living in south Florida is wonderful. But even in paradise we have our bad days. I recently received a mini cp collection from SarraceniaScott (thank you) and a few plants from other members. You work hard, you tend to them , you water them, and you feed them ex girlfriends...

Hey, I thought that if some of you have some extra lenses on hand and a bit of time, or if you're just curious about things like this, here's a link to an article about building a device letting you can take macro shots without spooning out any serious cash. I know I got a kick out of how well...

During hurricane Wilma, I put my plants in the patio. Most of the neps were chewed on by mice, but nothing serious except for my gracilis which has been chewed alot far back. For some reason, the newest budding pitchers just turned black and died and there hasn't been any new growth since the...

Right after the hurricane, my neps haven't grown or inflated any pitchers. They got gnawed on my mice, but nothing serious, it happened last time during katrina. Is this because of the cold weather. The hurricane didn't affect my plants, they weren't knocked down or repotted or anything and...

ive had a rough last 2 months at work. lots of unrealistic deadlines so the stress piled up. i have bad knees anyway and the last 2 weeks was especially hard on them. so i informed the wife come hell or high water we were hunting this weekend. she had an antelope tag for north of Fort Peck...

Hi all, I just returned from the veterinary clinic after two hours of tests on my dog. She fell sick yesterday and hasn't been eating. After a few tests they found that she had a build up of fluid in her abdomen. They suspect this is being caused by a tumour. Malignant or Benign? too early to...

I know that having a basal shoot is usually a good sign, but I don't know if mine is. I was recently checking my N.x edinensis and some of the pitchers seem to turn brown a little faster than usual. I noticed a cut ona vine, not a serious cut, about I'm guessing 1 cm deep, and the vine is about...

Recently my neps expect for the hanging basket got a few aphids on them, nothing serious....yet. But I noticed this about 2 days ago and just ignored it, because i thought it was just some insect. After looking at GIS, I found out that they were aphids, I grow my cps outside, so I found the...

We have a lot of indoor cats from rescues and we love them. Some are my babies and some are my husband's babies. A few days ago one of my husband's cats, Bastian, died in his sleep and I was the lucky one who found him. I don't deal well with these types of situations and my stomach has been...

Hey guys, well I was at the Denver Flower Show last spring with jeremaih selling plants right. I decide to go look around at the booths, there were some nice displays, some cool ideas, but when I was getting back to our booth something caught my eye, It was a booth with a few stands, like...

Hi all, I only have one pair of albino corys and the female spawned today. I didn't even know the young one was a male....anyway, this is the first spawn I've had so I need some serious advice on my nice surprise! I read up a bit about cory breeding on some other websites just now. I'm not...

Please be considerate! I know this sounds stupid, but I'm convinced most people don't understand it- so I'll spell out what I hope is obvious. If you hit a motorcyclist, there is an incredibly high chance of causing serious damage to the rider. If you threaten a motorcyclist, it is much more...

A Prickly Pear. Water Lily. Now let's get to some of the CP's.... Let's start with the dews. D. intermedia was the most common followed by D. rotundifolia. On Sunday Bob, Joe, and I did some serious bush wacking into the Pine Barrens. We came across a few areas that were dry and many of...

this was originally published in 2000, but it applys to today i think. if you can tell me who wrote it ill send you 1 D. capensis seed(trust me you only need 1) If you've been to a gas station lately, you have no doubt been shocked by the prices: $1.67, $1.78, even $1.92. And that's just for...

My neps haven't been attacked from snails, since over a month. I used snail pellets, but apparently it ran out today. I was checking my neps in the morning and two neps got attacked, one was my N. x edinensis, only thing that got attacked was it's newest developing pitcher, which was swelling...

About two weeks ago I helped a friend set up a terrarium for his son (I'm new to CPs myself). We are using a 10g tank with three fluorescent tubes (GE PLant & Aquarium Brightstiks--33W each). Lowes happened to have several Nepenthes, no species name given, so we took home two. The plants were...

I just got a few S. Flava and S. Purpurea today. The Purpurea looks incredible. The Flava looks OK too but some of the pitchers have thick brown rings on their necks. Some are even brown spots that looks like they've rotten through. Is this just signs of shipping stress or something more...

My VFT has been acting weird ever since it came out of dormancy, it's been growing well but the leaves are short and sticking straight up in the air and it's getting kinda crowded up there with over 7 leaves there. I was just wondering why it was doing this, it's in full bright sun with plenty...

Hi all. I've been crazy for VFTs since I was a little kid. My mom would buy some, I'd basically torture it for a week, not knowing proper care, then it would die. I'm a bit wiser, so I think, and would like to begin seriously growing. I've recently purchased 6 typical plants and 5 of the 'big...

Hi folks I would like to ask you all to keep our forum member and moderator Cole (Colio) in your thoughts and prayers.  Cole is a horseman and a winning team with his beloved horse Hank.  Hank has suffered an eye injury and this injury has serious implications for his life.  He is going to have...