Too soon to repot?

QuestionI have three nepenthes plants (blood red, Asian pitcher, and Ventricosa) that I would like to repot into African Violet pots. I have only had these little guys for about two weeks and they seem to be happy a

Nepenthes Alana problem

QuestionI was looking at my N. Alana and noticed that the ends of the tendrils has shrunken and turned brown, to the point where one broke off in my hand. I water it about 3 times a week, it has the recommended soi

dividing our mother plants

Question You all mentioned on your site that We are in the process of dividing our mother plants. How do you do this? I am possibly interested in doing this with my N. Ampullaria which is 2 years old, producing many

Nepenthes bicalcurata

QuestionMy little Nepenthes bicalcurata has not done anything for a year. I am in Kansas and this is in a terrarium with artificial light for at least 12 hours Plus it is in the south window to get sun too. I feed i

Sunlight

QuestionI heard you said that venus flytraps should get enough sunlight. But I also hear from other places that they must be kept indirect. I live in Las Vegas where the climate gets hot in the summer, over 100 degr

carnivorous bog

QuestionHi,I have a barrel of various sarracenia that are waking up after their winter nap.Im not sure what to do with the old leaves and pitchers.Should I cut them to the base, cut only the brown off or just leave

Leaf Clipping/Early Spring Care

QuestionHi. I just bought a venus flytrap, and it is early March. I read that i was supposed to clip off all leaves when the flytrap began to reemerge from dormancy. How much of the leaves should I clip off? Should

A post-repotting question re: nepenthes sanguinea

QuestionQUESTION: Thanks for offering your expertise on this site! I have two questions for you: 1) I recieved a combo-pot (in a ~6 strawberry pot) from Sarracenia Northwest as a gift early this year featuring a Ne

Cobra Plants in a pond

QuestionHere in Kentucky springtime is slowly creeping upon us, and the time for me to consider some more outdoor species is now! Because our summer days nights are very muggy, rarely going below 65 and frequently r

Plant cooling question

QuestionI saw that in the care sheets for the cobra plant, that you can use water with ice cubes in it to cool the plant during the hot days, or even put ice cubes into the standing water. Will cooling the water th

carnivorous plant primrose butterwort

Questioni have a primrose butterwort i have it in 1 part sphagnum moss 1 part peat moss and 1 part perlite and have rocks under pot with water in tray.one plant looks good but flower is dying .had to cover the other

sarracenia purpura and winter

QuestionQUESTION: Hello, I live in Canada. I have a Sarracenia purpura. My plant didnt have any dormancy this year. Im trying to find some information about the tolerance to cold for that plant but dont find any zon

too soon to repot/dormancy

QuestionHi. I just bought a venus flytrap from Sarracenia Northwest. It arrived in great condition. In the instructions I recieved with it it said to repot it every March, and it is late march right now, so i

Overheating

QuestionI have a greenhouse that overheated for three consecutive days. It got up to 125 F! All of my plants, mostly nepenthes and orchids, are turning yellow. I have been watering them well and giving them a daily

Ortho Sytemic Insect Killer

QuestionHi Jeff and Jacob Happy spring to you both. It is still too early here in the northeast to uncover my bog even though daytime highs have been over the freezing mark for about a month now, n

N. Trichocarpa

QuestionI have a trichocarpa that I got from you last year. I keep all my plants outside during the spring-fall (march-november)for the most part (as i live South of Houston TX its warm those months). Af

Scarlet Belle/sweet pitcher, pitcher production

QuestionHi, I have a plant that looks like a Scarlet Belle. I got it from Home Depot and it was labeled Sweet Pitcher. It had 10 pitchers on it last year.I foliar sprayed it with a solution of Brassinolide, Indole a

spots on nepenthes

QuestionI have a nep of some variety, saved it from Lowes.Had it for about 2 months now,doing great.Gets a few hours of morning sun followed by bright indirect light the rest of the day.Seems to be happy, lots of ne

N. Caesar

QuestionGood day, I recently bought an N. Caesar from Sarracenia NW. It arrived on March 5th, 2008. Since then, I have kept its daytime temperatures at around 75-77 degrees F, and have given it a night time tempera

flytraps grown out doors

Questionis it unusual for venus fly traps to have survived the winter in a covered outdoors container here in Massachusetts? I was surprised to find 3 of them still green and looking healthy after this past winter