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Hello. Jeremiah generously gave me some Nepenthes Attenboroughii seeds to try my hand at in vitro culturing. I promised to share any progress, so here it is. I frequent this forum often, so it is only fair that perhaps someone can benefit. Let me preface this by saying that I have never...

I have had trouble with collecting sarra seed to put in the freezer before, so I made a little disposable tool to help with this and while I was taking pics of how to make it I desided to show how to pollinate sarras for people who don't know how. I will start with pollination. Here are some...

My tap water is around 100PPM here(according to my PPM meter, not the most accurate one I bet), so I have been using it on my drosera and nepenthes for about 8 months. Nepenthes grow like mad, so there isn't a question with them. However, I have noticed recently my drosera are growing slower...

I'm settling in where I live, finally after far too many moves. My Ventricosa, Venetrata, and something or other(not ultra common, but I can't recall the specie) are growing like weeds without effort. If I mist them daily, they seem to pitcher well. I just use tap water since it's 80-100 PPM or...

Hello all, I received about 4-5 years ago some S. alata 'Covington, LA' plants and they have grown quite well for me. Interestingly enough, several years ago I had some spare plants and put them in a bucket of water and they amazingly have been living for 2 years in a bucket of just tap water...

I have 1 with a small tap root and 1 that is kinda tall with no tap root. right now they are in LFS just curious how much do I let them grow before moving them to media?

Of course we all want a greenhouse, but for some of us a prefab kit just won't do. I always try to DIY whatever I can to save money, because I can tailor it to suit my needs, and it usually costs a lot less. After reading a bunch of books and spending hours (days?) on the internet I've came up...

Hello Everyone. Recently I saw weird bite marks on one of my highland Nepenthes. I am horrible when it comes to IDing pests so I thought I'd ask what y'all think of this. The plant has been quarantined, but I'm still very worried. About a month ago I saw the same symptoms on my lowland Nepenthes...

Hello everyone! My name is IcEvilBunnies, and I am glad to join your forum! My affection for CP is still growing, but this interest has hit me suddenly as if it started to rain suddenly on a very hot day. My earliest encounter with CP was with a Venus Flytrap I loved very much as a child...

Hello I got into carnivorous plants a few months ago (3?) and am fortunate to live in a great place for it. The tap water here is so good there is no need to buy distilled water. I attended my first meeting of the Bay Area Carnivorous Plant Society recently. At my local nursery I had picked...

I posted a while back looking for advice on building an automatically-irrigated raised bed system for my Sarracenias. After some great ideas from John B. on the ICPS forum (stock trough float valves!) and finding a YouTube video of a guy using a 12v demand pump, a car battery and a small solar...

Hey guys, Dunno if you remember, but last summer I modified an AC to fit into my tank (see my sig to a link about it). I've now decided to try something else using an office water cooler. Essentially it's the same idea as Martin Hingst, except that I used a water cooler instead of a fridge...

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:-D This giveaway is geared toward helping newbies build their outdoor CP collection for shipping cost only. USA only please. I will PM the first 4 who respond with shipping cost and my address to send it to. Up for grabs are 4 outdoor CP bundles, shipped bare root. Each bundle will include...

I've seen some great examples of bogs -- raised, circulating, etc. I'm looking to build (or have built) something a little different: I prefer to grow my outdoor (greenhouse in the winter) CP in pots, despite all of the advice to the contrary from experienced friends. I don't have a good reason...

Okay..let me start off by stating that I do NOT, repeat do NOT, use the softened water on my plants. Here be my question. The well water at my home is very high in iron..turns sinks, clothers, etc orange high in iron. We use a sodium based water softener with a prefilter for household...

Ok so I never paid much attentions to the tds in water. My plants did fine with my tap waters well I broke down and got a meter. My tap water reads 90-91 ppm. What is the reading our cps like to be under??

Hey everyone! Well, 6 months ago I had a nice Venus growing, but it died after some time with no reason. I used tap water treated with some fish product, and I still need to know a way to get distilled water other from the ocasional rain here in Brazil, because buying it from stores is expensive...

Hey all. My name is Cameron, you can call me Cam if you want. Or King XD I spend a lot of time looking after my animals. I keep reptiles, amphibians, and other vertebrates and invertebrates. I prefer to grow live plants in my tanks. I was looking for something good to plant in my very...

Hello, I have been growing carnivorous plants for a while now, it was probably 40 years ago when I lost my first Venus flytrap because I was a kid and didn't know they needed a dormancy, our hard tap water probably didn't help either. I'm gonna guess I have been growing nepenthes for 10 years...