N. American pitchers

QuestionQUESTION: Last year i upgraded my n american pitcher plants to BIG pots, 10-16 inch pots. Im wondering, what is better for the plant, keep growing as one large plant, rhizomes are approx size of baseba

sandstone in outdoor bog - water quality effects?

QuestionHi guys - I have an outdoor bog approx. 10 x 3 x 24 deep in full sun just south of Pittsburgh, PA. Soil mix is approx 2/3 peat:1/3 builders sand. The bog was built in May 2008 and planted with a

Damaged N.Burkei

QuestionToday i noticed that my N.Burkeis growth point was broken off so now all thats left is the plant itself but no new leaves are able to appear. I was wondering if theres anything i can do to fix this problem.

mini bog

QuestionHello! Up until now i have grown all my carnivorous plants in individual plastic pots and they have all grown well for me. This coming season though, I wanted to make a mini bog with a few of my young venu

Trumpet pitcher from Hirts Nursery

Question Judith Hindle Pitcher Are you familiar with this hybrid? Its called a Judith Hindle Pitcher-Saracenia. On a separate note, though its taken two years, all except one of my Trumpets and even my North

ventricosa x inermis and heliamphora

QuestionHi Jeff and Jacob, I just got a rather tall 1 foot ventricosa x inermis and was wondering if I should treat as a highlander or as an intermediate or can it be both like ventricosa? Does it require addi

temp.

QuestionI have a Asian plant Nepenthes ventricosa , highland. I can give it everything it needs > but i dont no where i get put it for cool nights the room i have it in > stays in the high 70s and downstairs s

Cultivating Venus Flytraps

QuestionQUESTION: I have your book and I learned more from it than all others. My flytraps are slowly rotting. I am using your sphagnum moss perlite mix as recommended. Watering floods the soil over the leaves leadi

darlingtonia sunlight

QuestionHi, I live in zone 7 in Walnut Cove, NC. I have two brief questions for you. As you know I intend to eventually grow cobras in a bog. The site that I have in mind is partially shaded by nearby trees but I th

anthocyanin UV and sundews

QuestionHI ; I have been growing droseras for a few years now and I am very interested in the way CPs get colored with strong light . I read stuffs about the Anthocyanin that is responsable for the color of most CPs

P. Moctezumae questions

QuestionHello, I have some specific questions regarding P. moctezumae. For a bit of background, I bought some from originally from you guys and I now have them in African Violet pots in your preferred mix under twel

darlingtonia survey and sarracenia hardiness

QuestionHi, Some time ago when I asked you guys a question about cobras last year, you said that you would be conducting a fall survey. Im curious as to whether youve gotten any results and if any of the buyers of t

Emargency!!!

Questionsorry about all the questions recently but i have a big problem! i was pulling the dead leaves off my P. moranensis and the whole plant came out of the soil! no roots were attached! i took

Cape Sundews Not Growing Well

QuestionQUESTION: Hi. I have a few Cape Sundews under 2 - 40 watt florescent tubes. They are 6 inches away fron the light. They are in 50 peat/50 perilite mix. One is in a two inch pot ( very tiny sundew- br

ventricosa wont pitcher

QuestionMy ventricosa, which I got back in early summer, has been sitting in the window sill next to my copelandii, alata, and miranda, where they get direct sunlight from the SW for 4 hours a day. They are watere

Sarracenia need dormancy in tropical weather?

QuestionI found this website very useful in information. but one more thing i want to know aabout Sarracenia, butterwort and other carnivorous plants from america.. do they need dormancy here in Thailand? temperatur

cephs

QuestionQUESTION: I have been reading info from all over the web lately and came across some interesting comments in one forum (in the UK I believe). The people in there were discussing whether or not the Hummers Gi

Browning Nepenthes Leaves - HELP!

QuestionI ordered a N. ventricosa and a N. Miranda which both arrived with shiny green leaves. It has been placed in a sunny south facing window ( 1 ft above a heater ) in New York City, watered with rain water and

D. regia, N. rafflesiana, N. Judith Finn

QuestionHello! Me again. Havent asked anything in a few weeks, thought maybe i was over due, lol, kidding. I live in southern California, zone 9. I purchased a D. regia, from you guys a few weeks ago and since it

Little green parasite/bugs on my plant.

QuestionHi there Have a Venus Fly Trap for over 2 years now and have noticed that during the dormant phase, December and January there are fine green bugs attached to the main stem, I just wanted to know, are they