Flytrap traps wilting

Question Flytrap right now I bought a red dragon flytrap from you about two months ago and it was growing fine until a 3 to 4 days ago. Its old traps died back and the new ones are wilting and turning black.

Darlingtonia Dormancey

QuestionBecause my winters are way too cold here in Canada Im assuming I should wrap them & put them in the fridge at the end of the season, what if they have stolons, should I cut them off before I put

Bromaliad Help! What can I do to help the plantlets?

Question Bromaliads base bromeliad close up Allexpert, A few years ago I got this plant from you. The plant is now starting the next phase of the its life cycle. The part where the main p

Sarracenia soil compression

QuestionIve been repotting my sarrecenia with one part peat to one part perlite soil. Whenever it rains or water is poured on top of the repotted plants the soil separates and washes away. Ive tried compressing the

Seedling sarracenia

QuestionI have many sarracenia seedlings growing in my other plant pots that came from last seasons seed. They are unknown crosses of complex hybrids and it would be interesting to see how they turn out, but it take

Small Sarracenia flower stalks

Question Small flower stalks Stunted Flytrap Hi Jeff! Hope you guys are doing good! My plants are doing fine, I really enjoy these days, however, I noticed a very strange (to me) growth in Sarraceni

100F for drosera capensis and nepenthes gentle

QuestionHello! Species: drosera capensis and nepenthes gentle Issue: I live in Southern New Mexico and the heat, indoors, can reach the mid90s in my apartment. Nevermind, if theyre near a window that gets sunlight.

Darlingtonia Problem

Question Darlingtonia The photo I added shows my one Darlingtonia growth for this year looking thin and twisty instead of looking like the new ones look like on my other plant. The regular looking ones are fr

fruit flies

QuestionIs there a plant that would survive in a south facing window in zone 5 that would consume fruit flies? AnswerHi Ann, If your South Facing window is nice and sunny, a Cape Sundew (Drosera capensis) or

Flooding Sarracenia

Question Flooded Flower-boxes Flooded Flower-boxes 1 Hi Jeff! I have some flower-box including a water reservoir in which I grow Sarracenia磗 (minor, psittacina, oreophila, alata, purpurea). Usually

heliamphora and other nepenthes growing conditions.

QuestionMy green house gets around 10 hours of sun in the summer and I water them when the topsoil feels dry but not completely dry. On hot days, my greenhouse can get up to 90 plus degrees though I have two f

Flooding CP and Oxygen

Question Pot Pot 1 Hi Jeff, few days ago I asked you if I could flood my Sarracenia while on leave for 3 days. You told me that due to high temperatures (90 F? and stagnant water, roots might not be ox

Darlingtonia stolens

QuestionHi there I got a mature Darlingtonia around May 1st & put it outside in the mix you preferred & a litter pan with a Rez underneath, catching water from the drip system, the plant is growing great, &nbs

D. madagascariensis cont.

Question Growing Conditions TDS Hi Jeff, For some reason I couldnt leave this reply attached to my last question. To answer your follow-up question: -The plant is located outside in a tray with an asso

Earwig troubles

QuestionEar wigs have been nibbling on the new growth of my Venus fly traps. I Know this cause i have seen my plants catch them in their traps (all their traps have an ear wig, which is over feeding my plant.) and a

Nepenthe

Question Picture of burnt pitch I have an asian pitcher that had been doing fine on my patio. But yesterday it was a little bit colder with a lot of of wind. I also put it in sunlight longer then I usually do

Butterwort

Question Butterwort I bought this butterwort online and it got lost in the mail for a week so it looked pretty sad when it arrived then after careful unpacking it fell right out of the pot when I asked the co

Nepenthes x wrigleyana growing pattern

Question Nepenthes Hi, I hope this isnt an embarrassingly simple question, but I have been growing a Nepenthes x wrigleyana for a year now, and by all accounts it seems to be thriving; it has grown a great d

Watering Cephalotus

Question Cephalotus folliculari Dear Jeff, hope all is going well on your side! Now that I managed to keep my Drosophyllum (about 2 inches long now), I wanted to optimize my growing skills on my Cephalotus

Why does my Sarracenia keep making deformed leafs

Question Deformed leaf Deformed pitcher This Sarracenia Adrian Slack x Judith Hindle shares a pot with two other plants. Ever since it produced three really nice healthy pitchers this spring, the main r