Light filter question

QuestionI have a western window in the bathroom that is a major heatsource in the summer. It gets full sun in the afternoon. My question is that if I apply one of those plastic film filters to the window that block

Pygmy Sundews gemmae

QuestionMy Pygmy Sundews, sadly, dried out because I missed a watering day. Theyre not dead; In fact, I think theyre fine. This was a month ago, but the dew is all dried out on the leaves. They have some Gemmae on t

Overwatering/Blackening Leaves

QuestionHi. I bought a venus flytrap from you this March, along with a bag of soil. I re-potted it in March also, like the instructions said. It is now April and it has been raining a lot recently. I have it in a ce

FUSION!!!

Questionallright this is what happened i had a vft and a pitcher plant and they both had flowers but somehow i was wondering i accidently placed pollen from the vtf to the pitcher flower!!! what could happen plz hel

Capensis so tall they fall

QuestionQUESTION: Is there a way or technique you can recommend to keep drosera capensis from growing so tall they fall over. I realize it is a great sign to have them grow so aggressively but Id like to keep them f

no see ums

QuestionWe have a boat in New England, in the summer we have no see ums (tiny agravating bugs) is there a plant that will live on my boat and eat the bugs? I already have a collection of sundews and fly traps. Thank

soil mixture

QuestionMy grandson Alex brought his plants from Camas WA to his new home in WV, Going to repot them, what is the correct soil mix.Thanks,Larry AnswerHi Larry, What soil mix to use depends heavily on the type of c

my flytrap

QuestionHello,my name is Corbin,I water my flytraps,sundews,and cobra lily rain water.They are on my window sill.What can i do to know more about these bug bitting plants and how to raise them better AnswerHello Co

Humidity adaptation

QuestionHi Chris, thanks so much for the info about lighting which you gave me last week. The plants now have 2- 40W cool white 48 inches and 2- 24W T5s for a combined lumen around 10,000. The difference has been no

dying plant

QuestionI totally new at this I just purchased 2 little plants(sundews) one of them is a plant with long thin antler looking leaves, many of these were bent and broken from shipping (I dont think it was such a good

VTF Feeding

QuestionHey i know its not necessary to feed your VTFs, but would it hurt to feed it a triop? I was recently on youtube and I saw people feeding theirs triops and thought i might try it. If you dont know what a trio

HARVESTING SEEDS

QuestionI AM A RETIRED AUCTIONEER AND HAVE BECOME INTERESTED IN CARNIVOROUS PLANTS.I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW HOW AND WHEN TO HARVEST SEEDS FOR VENUS FLY TRAPS.I WINTERED A FEW AND THEY CAME BACK HEALTHY FROM LAST WINTER.

getting started

QuestionI have been interested about these plants for a long time, and have been doing a lot of research on them. I was wondering what would you recomend for me to buy in order to have my own little indoor cage. M

growing plants outside in california

QuestionHello, Hi I live in thousand oaks which is a suburb of LA. It is very hot here in the summer with very low humidity and temperatures commonly in the high 90s. I have a pot with a few Sarracenia

P. macroceras

QuestionHi guys I just got my shipment and I was reminded why you are my go to guys for carnivorous plants. The plants were as always beautiful and well packed. As you know, I bought a P. macroceras fro

Cape Sundews

QuestionHello. I have Cape Sundews on a south facing window sill in NC. Our home is passive solar, so they have had plenty of sunshine all winter & still do until the sun moves even more overhead. Then they receive

Is there other growing methods???

Questionhello well ive been growing the venus fly trap in california and pitcher plant for 2 years now with failure after failure i kept reading the care sheets from cobraplant.com but they didint work for me but i

nep trouble

QuestionI have 3 neps saved from Lowes. Have no idea what they are. I have them in a mixture of orchid bark, peat moss and perlite topped dressed with lfs.They were in my house recieving about 3hours sun and the res

various cps

Questionhi, i just had a few questions about my cps. 1) how do i remove the hard woody base of a cape sundew? Should i just leave it? I have 3 that have a hard base and when i repot them i would li

A yard pest.

QuestionHey, My names Setu and I have a question about carnivorous plants. Basically my mom loves gardening, its all she does since my dad dies. It was the first thing she was able to do without breaking down and b