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THought this was just a neat pic. Fungal bloom in my window bubble.

Intro: For several months I have been keeping a diary of my plants behaviour, sizes, growth etc. I've kept this diary more so I can show myself how well my plants are growing, and give me more drive to keep them alive and well, than as a real science experiement. However reading back through my...

Huzzah! More snow in Wisconsin in nearly May! LET IT SNOW LET IT SNOW LET IT SNOW!!!!! Seriously, this is ridiculous. Anyone else getting snow? Probably not.

My Cephalotus recently lost 2-3 pitchers, and has put 3 in their place, it's starting to clump. Amongst this clump I'm noticing a lot of things I haven't seen before, smaller mature pitchers sort of hidden, a few non-carnivorous green leaves below it all, and, something else. I noticed a very...

It's about time! We had our first positive temperature this week. We have 16 ft of snow to melt before summer.

Believe it or not, a nuclear bomb was dropped on an American town. A Mark 6 30-kiloton bomb was dropped on Mars Bluff, SC by the US Air Force seriously injuring 6 people including 4 small children. This incident happened on March 11th 1958. I visited the site on March 20th and took some...

Now that the snow is starting to melt, I want to add to my tiny nep collection and I think peltate leaves are really pretty. I know rajah and clipeata both show the trait but I was wondering if there are any others. I think my place gets too cold for clipeata and I'm kind of intimidated by...

There has been some discussion on the sun's effects on global warming, so i wanted to throw in a paper that is relevant. http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2008/312/3 Study http://publishing.royalsociety.org/media/proceedings_a/rspa20071880.pdf

I was outside, with 14-15 inches of snow around my feet, reminded me of Alaska. Got to thinking about The Native Alaskan people, and their languages. Here is some Inuit throat singing http://www.stuff.co.uk/media/polar-relay/inuit.html Really neat stuff

Greetings everyone. A couple of weeks ago, a friend and I went to a nearby bog close to Wooster, Ohio. With my friend being a high school horticulture teacher and me being a high school science teacher, we spent a long time looking closely at the plants. I'm wondering if someone could...

Hi: Have any of you northern CP growers ever collected snow and melted it for your CP's? Im running out of the water I saved from my dehumidifier over the summer and I was going to start bringing in snow and melting it. I figured I could get enough to fill up about 5 gallons. Anybody else do...

After summer turned to fall back on 07, i began to grow a little anxious about my VFTs. I had grown them outdoors on my lawn-table (that got full sunlight all day during summer), and wasn't able to move them inside do to space restrictions. Now, i live in Eugene Oregon... a valley in a very...

February 15, 2008. SPRING has arrived again! :-O well not really..its 25 degrees (minus 3 C) and snowing outside as I type this. But Mid-February every year marks the official start of Spring for my Carnivorous plants! they are finished with their 3 and a half months of winter dormancy. They...

According to accuweather last night our area was under a "Thunder Snow" advisory. What the @#$2 is a thunder snow advisory??? Shoveled 3" of snow last night at 1am, the bank next door threw all their snow on my property this morning; now it's raining, thundering, lightning and freezing...

Even though I still have a decent covering of snow on the ground here in Michigan at zone 5 I am plotting and planning for a carnivorous bog garden I would like to install this spring. I would like to outline my plan and intended plants and see if anyone else (especially if you are a zone 5...

Well, one of my New Year's resolutions was to quit being a creepy lurker and actually start posting so...Hi! I started growing neps about a year ago after they were recommended to me as good companion plants for orchids and eventually ended up giving away the orchids so I could concentrate on...

I am cold stratifying several seeds now: Cephalotus follicularis various drosera (sundew's) cobra lily s. leucophylla s flaca rugelii s psittacina s alata s purpurea I am trying to get a jump on the outdoor growing season. Come January, I will need to take them out of the garage (zone 5 here...

Hey guys. Had a snow day today so I was pretty bored an thought I might take some pics of the grow room I use during the winter. Dont mind the crappy job I tried to insulate the windows....

Hi All, I'm new and I searched the forum for this and didn't see anything. I'm up in Northern Michigan and one thing we have plenty of right now is snow. So if rainwater is good for cp's then how about bringing in a few buckets of snow to thaw and use that? Of course I'd avoid the yellow...

Hi everyone, I just joined today and want to say hello. I live in Northern Michigan, specifically Cadillac. Anyway I have a venus flytrap, a couple of nepenthes, some venus flytrap seeds and purple pitcher plant seeds I am trying to start, along with a wife, 3 sons, two dogs, two spiders, and...