sphagnum

As requested here's a couple of pics of my setup for my lone Heliamphora, a heterodoxa x minor. I keep it outside to take advantage of the sun, and to keep it cool in our steamy summer temps I float it in a 180 gal aquarium I use as a water garden. Water temps generally run in the high 70s/low...

This is really overkill, but since I already have the photos, as well as tons propagated... I'm looking for some of the very red sphagnum moss. I'm giving my mom a new Nepenthes and I wanted to have some for that new plant, as well as her existing Nepenthes. Red is her favorite color, and she...

hello all, Im starting to grow some live sphagnum in my indoor grow shelf. I leave the lights on 24 hrs a day since im growing some sarracenia from seed. Will this affect the live sphagnum? or do they require a normal grow period?

Just curious if i have a zombie infestation of sphagnum, or, of this is algae. and IF it is algae, is this going to be a problem? I am using a nepenthes potting mix from California Carnivores. I got these little guys from the Czech Republic. They almost died on me after shipping but seem to be...

Due to overpopulation I am trading some duplicates to make room for new plants. .Nepenthes coccinea (mature plant) .Nepenthes Miranda (rooted cutting) .Drosera binata marstons dragon .Drosera filiformis tracyii .Drosera spathulata .Drosera nitidula x pulchella .Vft "spider" .Green sphagnum moss...

Just got back from my vacation in Yellowstone to a wonderful surprise: This was from a lot of around 50 seeds I got from the giveaway hosted by DragonsEye last month (thanks a ton!). So far, I've counted around 25 sprouts, with 3 on milled Sphagnum that I was too lazy to take a picture of...

In celebration of our recent in vitro successes with Nepenthes attenboroughii; and because you guys -- gals too -- are generally good eggs, we're giving one plant to some lucky grower, to be chosen at random, by those merry sylphs over at random.org, in one week's time. We had hoped to have...

Any idea what these little mysterious plant things growing in the sphagnum moss that tops the soil of some of our plants? Anyone ever have this growing in their sphagnum? Any ideas what it is? Is it harmful? Should i leave it or should i try and pick them out of the sphagnum moss?

OK here's Fred with another wort. I have a couple of quarter trays with this fern in and can see immediately that it is super easy to identify in the wild. That's once you've knelt down on mud and decided that the mass of green growth isn't grass or reed and your high power loupe hasn't steamed...

I decided to make a thread for the tub I am using to grow my Orchidioides Utricularia. The first post can be found in the section Orchidioides discussion thread.I started this a little more than a month ago, with Utricularia reniformis and asplundii. Currently in addition to those I have...

I haven't seen many, if any, pictures of vfts with live sphagnum as a top dressing on the substrate. Does it grow too fast for the vft to keep up? I think the live sphagnum looks better than rehydrated dried sphagnum and the darn birds seem to take the dried sphagnum and dig up the vfts! Scott

Here is a modest, all too nondescript seedling -- seed coat still visible -- in 2013, in a compost of milled sphagnum, long fiber sphagnum, and horticultural sand; and, below, its slightly more colorful counterpart, a year, nine months and change later . . . Nepenthes edwardsiana 20 August...

(Sorry if this is a repeat for a few people. I copied this post verbatim from another forum) Any thoughts on mounting an Aglaomorpha coronans fern? Perhaps the question would do better on a fern oriented forum, but I figured I'd ask, just in case anyone here has experience, or just an...

Hello everyone, This morning, I did find this in my sphagnum and I would like to know if I should be afraid of that. It is rather big. The chart is in mm. insect2 by Martin Villeneuve, sur Flickr I can't find a similar pic on the net. I grow my CP in the basement. I keep a window slightly...

Sad to say my collection of Sarracenia species, dionaea and drosera were wiped out by the cold this past winter here in Vermont. The previous year I only lost one plant, this past year I think only 2 plants out of about 25 pulled through. I kept them high on a shelf in my attached but unheated...

I spotted a shelf of Platycerium at work today and ended up buying a couple small ones on my way out, most likely the most common ones. P. bifurcatum? They are potted up in something but from my understanding they are best grown mounted, which is how I would like to grow them regardless of...

Hi everyone. The last couple of days i've been studying (I'm currently finishing my Biology career) and I've realized I'm using a non renewable resource to cultivate plants and i'm helping to destroy the habitat for the same plants i'm cultivating. What the hell? I mean, it's terrible. But I...

Oh my... What kind of trouble can I get into here?? After scavenging, it is now known that a spare glass bottle can be used for sending messages on the high seas without water intrusion. However, It also makes a great CO2 Injector tool. An upgrade is made in technology, and added to...

As a thanks to everyone who has donated to the recent NASC auction, I am giving away a Drosera prolifera to one lucky winner. The plant is fully mature and has several flower stalks ready to make some baby dews. I grow it in an open top fish bowl in live sphagnum. I can post pictures this...

This is a set of cuttings that partially overlaps with the other Begonia auction I have, which is plants with roots. Since these have a finite lifetime, I'd obviously like to get these in the mail on Monday, Tuesday at the latest. Until then, I'll have them outside, where it's at least a few...