How many people grow carnivorous plants?

[seedjar]

So, obviously a census here would give erroneous results, but I'm wondering how many people (nationally, globally, etc.) grow CPs, be it for hobby or commerce. Has anyone ever come across such a statistic?
~Joe

 

[Grey Moss]

As far as I know only two people in Manhasset grow carnivorous plants beyond the hardware store stuff.

 

[Ant]

I think it is a decent sized hobby around here, nothing like reptiles and normal plant growing. lol, I have a few hobbies and my ant keeping one is very small in the u.s. I only know of 1 other person in my state that does the same, and he is at the other end of the state.

 

[scottychaos]

my first thought was..there is really no way to ever know..
but maybe there is!

I bet if we took the amount of sales for the Barry Rice book or the Peter D'Amato book, then double that number, it would be a fairly accurate number for the amount of CP hobbyists in the English speaking world..

assuming about half of CP hobbyists are "serious" enough to buy a CP book..which IMO is probably likely..

yeah, it would still be a guess, but an educated guess at least.

Scot

 

[Capensis]

My friend said that at her school, they had a CP club, and she said they mentioned TF before.

 

[maneatingmoo]

That would be awesome to start a CP club at school.

 

[Ant]

my first thought was..there is really no way to ever know..
but maybe there is!

I bet if we took the amount of sales for the Barry Rice book or the Peter D'Amato book, then double that number, it would be a fairly accurate number for the amount of CP hobbyists in the English speaking world..

assuming about half of CP hobbyists are "serious" enough to buy a CP book..which IMO is probably likely..

yeah, it would still be a guess, but an educated guess at least.

Scot

i just go to the library, never bought the book.