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As I mentioned in a different thread, I recently was accepted to the PhD program at Brown University, so this summer I'm going to be moving to Providence, RI. So I figured I should ask if anyone has grown Sarrs (and VFTs) there? The climate seems pretty much identical to Cincinnati, so I don't...

I return from lurking with a whole string of questions, and a bit of a background story to help put this all in perspective (This is a MUST be done situation, not a "I just want to"). Oh and an apology for any unintentional ranting that may come up. My daughter, otherwise known as "The Tropical...

Dishing the Dirt on CP soils There is a lot of controversy over just which soils are best for certain types of CP's. Some growers prefer perlite, some prefer sphagnum, some plants just really don't seem to care, so exactly what is it that makes a type of soil good for CP's? Read on and...

Dishing the Dirt on CP soils There is a lot of controversy over just which soils are best for certain types of CP's. Some growers prefer perlite, some prefer sphagnum, some plants just really don't seem to care, so exactly what is it that makes a type of soil good for CP's? Read on and find...

On the advice of senior growers, I recently bought a TDS meter to test water for my CP's. Even though I get their water from vending machines, in front of every supermarket in AZ (Andy and Joseph know what I'm talking about), it is still recomended to check it...every time you refill. Vending...

yeah i know sacreligious on this site but here me out........looking to build a good sized bog and pond without CP's....the reason? 12 inches annual precip........hard to come up with enough water to do a good sized one with rain water as a primary source. so i plan on doing a smaller one for...

I've been reading these forums for some time, and figured I may as well join! I had attempted to grow CP's, specifically VFT's and Sarracenia's in the past, but without success. I finally learned that this was due to me trying to grow them indoors, and keeping them under plastic domes, and...

2 years is longer than it seems! It is even long enough to forget EVERYTHING I once knew about CP and make D. capensis challenging again. Well okay maybe not everything. I knew it was a "Cape sundew" when I saw the poor neglected little dew sitting in a tray of calcium encrusted tap water in...

Looking to start a small Highland greenhouse and have a few questions. Starting up a 6'x8'x7' greenhouse and in my area outside temps in summer run 95-100F during the day. I will have to use a swamp cooler to keep temps low during the day. At night this summer most temps running between 80-85F...

Does anyone here use a piggy back membrane on their RO system? It's said to double your production.. But the way it hooks in, is the incoming water is the brine water of the first membrane... so you're starting with water that is a higher TDS than your tap... My second question... is...

This is probably a N miranda. I have to bring them inside and they are just too large! I trimmed one injured vine that was still growing very well (it had just gotten bent a the base) and cut it into two separate cuttings. The smaller of the two measures about 20 inches from leaf tip to leaf...

I have read here a lot on the use of tap water... I have just a few plants on my starting collection... well the fact is Im thinking to put my plants on a small greenhouse. The main problem here is the fact that we get really hot on summer (we reach a record of 100 degrees this year) so Im...

Can i repot the muscipula in sphagnum moss only? I keep reading that i want a perlite/moss mix but my local home depot doesn't seem to carry plain perlite stuff, they only have it with miracle grow in it. I found the moss but that's it so far. I want to replant the VFT because i think when i...

So I was on vacation last week, and came home to find that my S. 'Scarlet Belle' had been stolen. Unfortunately it was a very large plant, about 14" in diameter. Also taken with the planter were a VFT 'Bristle Tooth' and VFT 'Shark's Teeth' that I had traded for earlier this summer. I'm upset...

I'm new here. I'm new to CP's. I'm new to owning plants in general. I have a Chinese elm bonsai and just a month or so ago received a VFT. I'm assuming it's a typical, but I really cannot know for sure, as I do not know enough about them and what all the different types/mutations look like...

I know that alot of people use tap water in their neps. I haven't gotten the nerve up to undo the "no tap water for carnivores" conditioning. However, I was wondering something. If the roots are what aren't designed for minerals in tap water, there shouldn't be a problem with misting the...

hey, im new to nepenthes.. i got a pot of un-IDed nepenthes at a hardware store. it actually looked good, it had 2 basal stems in a 2.5 inch pot and lots of pitchers, almost no dead ones. I wanted to put them in 2 separate pots.... when i took one out, i think i destroyed a lot of the roots...

I'm going to China in three weeks with my friend. I guess his family invited me for some reason, and now we're going to go visit his family there and stay for three weeks. We're going to Beijing, Wuhan, and then Shiyan (not Xi'an). I already have a visa, the tickets, and everything is pretty...

My aloes seem lonely all by themselves out in the back yard, so I have been reading up on some succulents that would possibly keep the aloes company. Anyway, I have two general questions regarding succulents. -While reading various care sheets, I came across the term “deep watering”. What does...

Whats the highest total ppm that you can use on neps? I've always just bought RO water, but I just got a water report from the city, and it would save me a lot of money/time if I could just use tap water.