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Growing a few of these Rio Huallaga rocoto peppers this season, all growing in their own five gallon pots. This strain of rocoto pepper comes from Northern Peru and is very tolerant of harsh growing conditions and quite enjoys Canada's cooler summer nights. The plant itself, sports slightly...

A shimmering trail traces out the final stages in the life of a slug that obviously wasn't wearing enough sun block nor heeding any of his dermatologist's advice to limit summertime sun exposure, which apparently can cause skin damage or in more extreme cases... ...Death! :welcome: to...

Wayright sent me this pic of one of his white 7 Pots. The yellow capsaicin oils contrast nicely with the white flesh of the pepper. dvg

I've been feeding a basement dwelling feral female spider ( it's some type of species which makes a funnel type web) over that last couple of months. She has gotten larger from the flightless fruit flies i have been supplying her with each day. Over the past few days i have noticed that a...

I had a chance to try Drosophyllum lusitanicum aka the dewy pine or Portuguese Sundew from seed, another carnivorous plant i'd like to add to my collection. This is a pic of the first one to germinate. A few days later it had grown a bit more... Today i hand fed the largest seedling some...

Haha...couldn't resist taking a pic of this half open N. veitchii pitcher. :lol: dvg

A package of Catopsis berteroniana seed, that recently arrived from one of the Czech Republic CP vendors. The seeds, which are dispersed by the wind, have a long tail of fuzz attached to them... ...a tail, that was quickly scorched away, once they were set ablaze with a match. :fire: The...

This one always puts a smile on my face...the plant is very forgiving and easy to grow, and its scented flowers emit an intoxicating aroma, similar to a Datura flower, when the sunlight warms them. dvg

Pinguicula esseriana 'Giant' has been in my collection since June of 2008. It is most likely the largest of the P. esseriana species varieties, with these rosettes shown above measuring just over an inch in diameter. These mexi-pings are colorful and possess a uniformly compact growth...

A while back i had asked Kevin, aka Wayright, what his thoughts were on Tabasco peppers and he told me that he had been growing them for well over twenty years and that they were among one of his all time favorite peppers that he grew. With that bit of info i let him know that i was going to...

This might not be something you see everyday. P. heterophylla makes dormant underground bulbs, in preparation for the hot summer season, that remain in bone dry conditions until they are ready to spring forth with new growth again, once the cooler wetter weather hits in Mexico. Here is a...

The NFL kicks off a full slate of games tomorrow. The Thursday night season opener saw Green Bay open up where they left off with an offense filled game with the Saints, which should have left Boutros in a festive mood. ;) Any of you NFL fans out there have any foresight into who might go deep...

I received this Pinguicula species from CZ Plants, back in June, 2008 labeled as P. kondoi. But it seems that the real P. kondoi, according to some experts, is not really in cultivation, and what is labeled as such is actually P. reticulata. Either way, this is still a very nice mexi-ping...

My s(care) package from the South arrived today in surprisingly good shape, considering the 2 week transit time. :welcome: :dance: :woohoo: :mouthonfire: Kevin, aka Wayright, the Atlanta area grower, chose very fresh peppers for this box, which no doubt helped with the peppers getting...

Not that it was ever lost in the wild or cultivation, but N. ventricosa because of its common status in cultivation is oftentimes overlooked by Carnivorous Plants hobbyists. It is a great beginner's plant, but once the next great Nepenthes species or hybrid is added to the collection, N...

First off i'd like to thank Kevin, aka Wayright, for sending me a boatload of chile pepper, tomato and vegetable seeds, all which arrived safely in today's mail. Kevin was very kind and also sent along some seeds for a peculiar Brazilian vining/climbing pepper known as Pimenta Trepadiera. It...

My wife and i attended a meeting with our local Cactus Club a couple of weeks ago, and i had a chance to talk to one fellow who was looking to give away Lophophora williamsii seeds produced by his own flowering plants. So i took him up on his offer and he doled me out a few dried seed pods...

A mouse, before it was caught, managed to take a few chomps out of this Nepenthes truncata leaf. The pitcher was just a tendril tip at the time and wasn't damaged, but that mouse was attracted to a few other pitcher's peristomes... ...it obviously had a real sweet tooth for them...

Here are some pics of a developing, but still unopened Nepenthes clipeata pitcher. This carnivorous pitchering jungle vine is endemic to Borneo. Some members have commented on the phallic appearance of these unopened pitchers... ..and NO i'm not feeding it blondes... Rotate the pitcher...

Here are some cactus seedling pics of A. caput-medusae, (seeds sown march 5, 2011) showing it's first tubercle growing out... ...the seeds for these plants were going for 20 Euros a piece a few years ago... :eek: :eek: :eek: and from today... And these are some pics of some...