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i initially thought this plant was just a weed...until i saw something shiny. i poked it and as it turns out, this thing has GLANDS! :-O it doesn't look like any type of sundew to me, what is it? btw im not talking about the forked sundew...hahaha.

my oldest stepdaughter, Kate, hurt her knee in her basketball game Saturday night.....after she got back home i evaluated her(least my experiance with screwed up knees is worth something) saw nothing that indicated i needed to haul her to the ER as the one here wouldnt be able to do anything for...

Is there a commonly used size chart for sarracenia? I'm thinking probably not, because everyone has such widely different views on the sizes of their plants. I've been buying a lot of them lately. One place I bought from that advertised large plants were really big, what I call large, with...

Is there anything I can put on my flytraps to help them out? I remember reading about something a while back. Where the plants are at currently they are likely to see few to zero bugs hardly ever. My small baby plants I planted a year or so ago are still pretty dang small. Just recently I...

This is out there, but does anyone have any expierience talking to younger ones about CP's? I have volunteered to talk to pretty much the entire kindergarten department of a local school. my fear is that everything I say will be over their heads and I walk out of that room acomplishing nothing...

So I need to share with you guys a VERY practical tool... I put up a shelf from ikea, that has the support hidden inside the shelf itself http://www.ikea.com/ca/fr/catalog/products/50103618 Well, i used those plastic plugs to support it in gyproc...

so, there's a plant that i'd love to have...the only problem is the fact that i don't know if it even is a real plant....yet. please hear me out. i'd love to find a nepenthes that possesses a "wine shape" pitcher figure--something like an eymae, or jacquelineae (elongated though), that is lime...

Hi All. I am looking for other pygmy drosera that I dont currently grow. I have a ton of Pulchella x Nitidula gemmae to trade, And also seed of spatulata. I would really like to find Scorpioides and roseana. I am also willing to trade the Pulchella x Nitidula gemmae for other drosera variants...

Alright guys here it is... Do you like the old forum read method or the new? If you don't know what I'm talking about you should probably just mark I don't know :p If you really really want to know you can view this discussion about it. Andrew PS- got my vote in :-P and this is only good...

Hi Y'All, its me again. Yes, I did a search on this topic and the best I could find was posted in '03. Now that its 6 years later, has anyone gone through and modified a wine cooler fridge for their ultra-highlanders? Pics, would be AWESOME:-O Yes, I know Jeremiah converted a fridge, but I'm...

Hi All. I have a Truncata x Veitchii H/L in flower at the moment. Its just starting to flower. I know most of you are guessing that its a male. I was thinking that too as well. But when I was talking with the vendor whom I received it from, He was saying that mine actually may be a female...

100 GPD RO filter for trade OR month old 32 gig Itouch (third gen), want 24 in" light Hey all, I'm looking for a nice light for a 24 inch long terrarium. I'm looking for compact fluorescent (NOT the spiral energy saver bulbs.) or a T5 HO fluorescent fixture. Used is fine (expected.) IDEALLY I'd...

so I received quite a batch of different sarr seeds and began the stratification process about 2 weeks ago using a damp paper towel in the fridge method. Just took them out today to observe and noticed these reddish blotches, not located around the seeds but more so on the outer folds. I'm...

Does Any one Know Someone W/ KLS (Kleine-Levin Syndrome) My Aunt has just been diagnosed with this Very rare an Horrible Disease. I had to for the first time this morning watch my Aunt go from a normal talking adult to what we thought was her dieing but she just when out (sleep ) then woke...

Last weekend a friend and I went on a Nepenthes safari. We took a plane, rented a car, drove about an hour, and hiked in the rainforest to where we had heard Nepenthes grew. But first we did not fail to make an offering to the Nepenthes god. We must have given the proper offering because it...

I have noticed 2 purple like buds on my Devil Claw plant right at the edge of where the bloom connects to the stalk on Plant #2. What does that mean and what are those? I will get a picture of those and I have never seen anything like that before. Does anyone know what those are? Here is a...

So, I'm trying to come up with a list of topics for a short presentation on CPs (15-30 minutes I'm guessing) aimed mostly at those with a high-school level science background or higher. Some of the things I want to talk about are the prehensile movement of Nepenthes tendrils, the mechanism of...

Well, if you've been in the chat room, you've probably heard me excitedly talking about my new grow arrangement that I've ordered and now have fully assembled. I want to create a thread to share with you my thoughts and pictures of this new product. Now, I understand something like this may not...

Hey guys I just wanted to post a quick messages letting everyone know that the CCPS will be hosting Stewart McPherson on Friday August 28th from 7-9pm. The meeting will be held at my house in Colorado Springs so everyone will get a chance to see my greenhouse and plants. Stewart will be...

In general how much do pitchers increase in size from one leaf to the next. I know there are a lot of variables to be figured in here; like highland vs lowland, maturity of the plant, time of the year, type of nepenthes, etc…. I would be interested in your observations. The reason that I ask...