Winter indoor grow/ 2020 grow list
- Thread starter TattooedBullfrog
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Something different and wanted to do for awhile, try to grow venus flytraps from seed. These don't grow in the typical soil that we all grow hot peppers in, the traps get the nutrients from insects. Any enhanced soils would kill the traps, they live in the swamped bogs in peat moss/sand. So I mixed a 60/40 blend of peat moss and perlite with distilled water(remember no minerals what so ever). Will patiently wait for the traps to sprout just like the peppers.
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Well it seems that I've used up the image upload data, thought about going extreme but noticed that THP website is not secure. So I'll do my best to describe what has happened lately on the grow.
On 3.1.20 I planted the following seeds:
Lemon Scorpion
Scotch Brains
Scotch Bonnets WHP
Elysium Oxide Scotch Bonnet Mustard
Chocolate Bhutlah
Ghostly Jalapeno
Swamp Thing
Pink Tiger x Peach Bhutlah
Scotch Brains F1
Scotch Bonnet Cappuccino
Skunk Red
Devils Brain
BOC x Brain Strain
Reaper x Chupetinho
Been keeping the heat mat around 86-87.5 degrees in a humidity dome. Some of the seeds started to sprout 3.7.20 and am sure more will emerge tomorrow.
I found some 4 year old seeds(7 pot Douglah) that I'm trying to germinate with the wet towel method, instead of planting in soil. Hope they do germinate!!
The Lemon tree is growing very well, it's almost 1ft tall. The micro tomato plants, are good and have multiple tomatoes on them.
On 3.1.20 I planted the following seeds:
Lemon Scorpion
Scotch Brains
Scotch Bonnets WHP
Elysium Oxide Scotch Bonnet Mustard
Chocolate Bhutlah
Ghostly Jalapeno
Swamp Thing
Pink Tiger x Peach Bhutlah
Scotch Brains F1
Scotch Bonnet Cappuccino
Skunk Red
Devils Brain
BOC x Brain Strain
Reaper x Chupetinho
Been keeping the heat mat around 86-87.5 degrees in a humidity dome. Some of the seeds started to sprout 3.7.20 and am sure more will emerge tomorrow.
I found some 4 year old seeds(7 pot Douglah) that I'm trying to germinate with the wet towel method, instead of planting in soil. Hope they do germinate!!
The Lemon tree is growing very well, it's almost 1ft tall. The micro tomato plants, are good and have multiple tomatoes on them.
Figured it out.
internationalfish said:
They are slow to germinate, I planted them 2.21.20 and one finally peeked out of the peat moss 3.13.30. So I guess Friday was a good day after all! The sprout is very small, I'll see if I can get a picture of it.Mr.joe said:
Update on the grow.
Here's a picture of the venus flytrap that sprouted. The black is the hull which is about the size of a blackberry seed, very small. I tried to moisten the helmet to free the leaves but it wouldn't give, so just left it alone and let nature take its course. From what I'm guessing the trap wrapped its roots around that small piece of perilite which is about 1/16" in size.
The plants are doing awesome. Reaper #3 is the runt of the bunch but have faith in the plant. If it does anything like the runt tabasco plant did last year, it will out produce all other reaper plants.
Broke out the Canon T3i with macro lens to get a close up of the flytrap. I thought peppers were slow growers, but the flytrap is super slow.
Just to show scale how small these traps are, this is a 3" pot.
