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My carnivorous plants [Pictures heavy]

Francois,
 
Good thread/topic you have going here!  I have some pepper plants but recently started looking at carnivorous species.  No particular reason but I did see posts about other ChiliHeads growing these types of plants.  Fascinating! Your photos are great
and wonderful topic all the way around.  The local nursery picked this one special for me. 
 
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OUCH!!
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Nice nepenthes ! What a monster :) Carnivorous plants are nice to control gnat population around orchids or pepper setup! Thx for your kind words !
 
My one wish is that this topic never dies. Too much awesome.

That and every time you open the thread, hell chose me by carnifex starts playing. Faaantastic!

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Stupidity aside, with regards to lighting, do the ..flowers? Of the nepenthes require most of the light or do the leaves and stalk (pardon my ignorance) get most of it?
 
In fact, carnivorous plants grow in very open peatbogs, they get a lot of sunlight. I can anwser the more light the better, for nepenthes at any stage of growing, exept for 3-4 species. Nepenthes are not peatbog plants, but many species i grow just thrive under massive light and hight RH%. Some other nepenthes species like hamata or burbidgeae need less light. Even if many nepenthes growers grow their 'easy growing' nepenthes in dryside setup, i can say almost all carnivorous plants will grow much better under 100% relative humidity and low/medium air running(ventilation), no matter the setup. Edit: next spring i will have many carnivorous plants seeds packs to give away. You will be the first on the list you beardedchunk and a couple other members :-) Im mostly a heliamphora grower but i hope i help a lil :-)  Thx again for the kind words !!!
 
Me want more sarrencencia and nepenthes. And everthing else really.
I have three 'vanilla' venus flytraps that sprouted this year in some sphagnum that I ordered for my neps, a handful of drosera rotundifolia that I got the same way, a larger drosera rotundifolia that came along with my drosera adelae, a handful of these adorable pygmy sundews, an S purpurea var. venossa that's sitting outside right now, Nepenthes Miranda that just started pitchering again, Nepenthes Maxima(what a dumbass I was. It isn't the dwarf version) that's a bright purple under the grow lights, a really nice Sanguinae that uses the pitchers to stand on the floor rather than hang from anything, and three ventricosa, one completely red pitchers, one red and yellow, and one orange. Gonna ask a fellow CT chilehead and CP grower for a cutting on some giant Sarrencencia that he has so that I can TC it, as well as look for seeds of Drosera Regia. Hoping I can order the California Carnivores deluxe bog box also. The contents of that are great.
 
cruzzfish said:
Me want more sarrencencia and nepenthes. And everthing else really.
I have three 'vanilla' venus flytraps that sprouted this year in some sphagnum that I ordered for my neps, a handful of drosera rotundifolia that I got the same way, a larger drosera rotundifolia that came along with my drosera adelae, a handful of these adorable pygmy sundews, an S purpurea var. venossa that's sitting outside right now, Nepenthes Miranda that just started pitchering again, Nepenthes Maxima(what a dumbass I was. It isn't the dwarf version) that's a bright purple under the grow lights, a really nice Sanguinae that uses the pitchers to stand on the floor rather than hang from anything, and three ventricosa, one completely red pitchers, one red and yellow, and one orange. Gonna ask a fellow CT chilehead and CP grower for a cutting on some giant Sarrencencia that he has so that I can TC it, as well as look for seeds of Drosera Regia. Hoping I can order the California Carnivores deluxe bog box also. The contents of that are great.
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Nice collection ! I had a sanguinea before but i sold it. This specie can be VERY big and outgrow a terrarium very quick. California carnivore is a great place, but they dont ship to Canada  :tear:
We only have 1 canadian nursery, and the plants selection is not very large. I have to import all my plants from Europe with a import permit and phytosanitary cert. 
 
Maiden said:
 
Nice collection ! I had a sanguinea before but i sold it. This specie can be VERY big and outgrow a terrarium very quick. California carnivore is a great place, but they dont ship to Canada  :tear:
We only have 1 canadian nursery, and the plants selection is not very large. I have to import all my plants from Europe with a import permit and phytosanitary cert. 
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Really sucks that there aren't more CP vendors in the area. If you can bring the plants across the border, you should have them ship to someone in northern US, then walk down if you need to do something else in the US. 
 
ive got the vaguest familiarity with pitcher plants.

these are the guys that produce insect pheromones right? to attract flys etc so they drown?

stupid question, but do you bother feed them via the pitcher trap deal? or do they just do well on fertilizer alone?

do you need to keep the pitchers full of water or what?
 

N. lowii x campanulata


N. x Briggsiana


N. Jungle Bells


N. bicalcarata



N. spectabilis


N. robcantlyi


N. ventricosa x ephippiata


N. sanguinea 'orange'



N. chaniana


N. truncata this is a very old pic. I lost this plant by planting it in straight peat. This plant would be massive today had I known better. And for reference. That's a 40oz beer bottle.
No they keep them filled with what they need. I fertilize with an orchid fertilizer. Many people feed their traps. Mine catch prey too but I still fertilize. Theu actually emit light that can be seen on the UV scale. That which bugs see. The peristoma glows to a bug. They also use nectar. Might have a pheromone aspect too.
 
queequeg152 said:
oh my. a 'fow-tea'?
 
have you no shame sir? :shame:
 
 
regarding the pheromones, i could easily be thinking of a different plant.
 
 
 
ah, i like this one lots.
 
short and fat, with what look like fangs?
 
you could loose a gerbil in that thing.
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Yes bicalcarata had fangs. It is a ultra lowland plant. Likes it hot hot and humid. Grows fast. Doesn't like it too cold and sulks below about 60°f. Bical availability comes in spurts. Sometimes easy to get, sometimes hard. The plant itself can get large. As in six feet in diameter large. And it grows fast.
 
These are awesome!  Would any of these be useful in controlling the gnats around my indoor pepper plants?
 
Max
 
Pinguicula would help. They are not pictured here, but I just learned they can be grown as house plants like African violets. And that have pretty flowers too.
 
..how many do you have? It almost feels like artwork for forest cards haha

I can't speak for maiden. I have over 100 sarrs and over 100 Nepenthes. I don't have an exact count, but if I was to add my seedlings it would be rather higher number.
 
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