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  1. nepenthes_ak

    NSM, John Taylor Bowles

    Thats right theirs still a socialist movement.... http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2007/05/meet-the-alsorans-the-white-peoples-candidate.php http://www.bowlesforpresident.com/ http://www.vote-smart.org/bio.php?can_id=69563...
  2. Y

    Watering mexican pings with tap water

    Hello recently i have started growing a few mexican pings from the ones that grow on gypsum and limstone rock. Now they are growing well for me with the rain and ac water i collect for them. The tap water were i live have a high calcium content wich i cant use watering my Cps. I was wondering...
  3. jimscott

    Home Depot finally listened!

    A couple days ago our Home Depot received a shipment of CP's - 20 (typical) VFT's and 5 S. purpurea, ssp. venosa. I bought a purpurea, since all three of mine bit the dust in April. The gal who works for a plant vendor and does the maintenance for those plants asked me what to do with them. I...
  4. jimscott

    A funny thing happened at the Depot...

    I was cashiering in garden when a young woman approached me and said she had a question about VFT's. I assumed she was going to ask if we had any, which we didn't. It turned out that she bought one from a nearby Lowes and wanted to know how to take care of it. So I gave her the CP speech about...
  5. jiana54

    boiling water

    so i spend about $2.00/week for a gallon of distilled H2O. If take tap water from the faucet and bring it up its boiling point, would that mean that all the impurities are gone? Can i use this type of water for the vfts?
  6. vraev

    My heart is in my mouth...VFT transplantation

    Hi guys, I guess my VFT's have been pretty good to me so far. They have been able to withstand my conditions as they went from a single 13 watt OTT-lite to a 13 watt OTT LITE + 23 watt Lights of america sunlight desklamp + bright sunshade to give me beautiful red traps and nearly 2 inch traps...
  7. jimscott

    PPM threshhold limits for drinking water?

    Does anyone have a list of analytes and acceptable limits for tap water, relative to CP's?
  8. Z

    What water is best for VFTs?

    What water is best for VFTs? --distilled water --rain water --run-off water --tap water that has sat for two days --anything else you use, tell us I am using distilled water, but its raining a lot, so should I collect some rain water? Thanks for any help!
  9. Zero

    help, my R/O unit isn't working

    I purchased a r/o unit 9 monthes ago and it has worked great until recently. The water flow from the faucet has been reduced to a slow drip. does anyone know if cold water would cause it to do this, or is it the r/o filter? if anyone know what would fix this please post. the r/o unit is a 5...
  10. P

    having problems with ampullaria

    well i have this n. amp for a while now and it used to pitcher her and there about 3 months ago. now i have it in my greenhouse, about 65-75% humidity. i have tap water that sits out for about a week and i use that on all of my neps, most of them seem to be doing fine with it except for my...
  11. Not a Number

    Hi All!

    Greetings Everybody! I'm just getting into CPs. I had a hardware store VFT bought in 1968 or so that somehow managed to survive in a big jar on a kitchen window sill for 12 or so years. It might have lasted longer but sadly I went away to college leaving the plant behind (would Seattle be too...
  12. jimscott

    Hunkering down for the winter

    I spent all of the spring and summer wheelin' and dealin' and replacin'.... and now it is time for me to fill my last order of "newbie kit" and call it a season. Unlike the lab in which I worked, which had ample window sill space and a neglected refigerator (except for someone's beer), I just...
  13. DerbyCityNeps

    My TC mutant

    well i got this guy from...i dont remember and its probably the weirdest nep ive ever seen. it grows quite well but right now it looks like crap cause i dropped the phone on it and it kicked off a 2nd growht point(which rooted for me!!) some things weird about this on: the leaves-the are VERY...
  14. JMurphy97

    Is tap water ok for orchids?

    The topic says it all. Is it good or bad? Should I tell my girl to use it or get distilled?
  15. JMurphy97

    I use tap water for my humidifier

    I use tap water for my humidifiers. Is this a bad thing? My neps seem to be doing ok, but some pitchers turned black, but then again they are also growing new pitchers. So I kinda get mixed ideas. Help me out.
  16. S

    Sarracenia: Before and After photos

    I haven't posted here in a while, but I just decided to show some Before & After shots of some of my plants over the last 3 months. S. purpurea BEFORE (May 2006): These were slow to start off this year because there was A LOT more cloudy and rainy days than usual this spring (Bay Area...
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