I want to make my plants more attractive...

QuestionI have a 18 x 18 x 18 exoterra tank with three tropical Nepenthes in pots on saucers. They look kind of dull just sitting there. What can I put in the tank to cover up the bottom and pot so that

i want to make my terrarium more attractive...

QuestionI have a 18 18 18 exoterra terrarium with three nepenthes plants in a pot and on saucers. The plants look dull just sitting on the glass bottom. I want add things like leaves and tree llike

brazilian sundew

QuestionHi, I killed my brazilian sundew (drocera gamiflora?)I trimmed off the brown ends of the leaves, and it shriveled up and dies. I have little black flies all over what plant can I buy to eat these? I have ven

IF i feed my plant...

QuestionQUESTION: IF i feed my plant what do i feed him? he (my plant) is very small only about an inch and a half and i dont want to over feed him. ANSWER: Hello Justine, Well, first off, what species of carnivor

trumpet plant

QuestionI live in Massachusetts. I had a trumpet plant growing in its pot in my back yard all summer. It did very well and was beautiful. I wanted to save it for the winter and my house is usually

Stickey dropplets on Nepenthes

QuestionI received two Nepenthes hybrids a few months ago and theyre doing great. Recently they have both started developing small droplets of clear, sticky, fluid on the petioles and pitchers. &nb

Drosera Aliciae

QuestionMy rosetted sundew plant is kind of in an awkward situation. I bought it back in August, bare root from California Carnivores. The bulb came in the mail, bundled up in a stringy, clean type of peat moss. N

N. Sibuyanensis

QuestionHi guys, I have a simple question regarding N. Sibuyanensis pitcher formation. I have read somwhere that the tendril of this nepenthes has to bury itself into the soil in order for the pitcher

Queensland Sundew--dormancy and repotting

Question I live in the Portland, OR area and purchased a Queensland Sundew (D. Prolifera) from Sarracenia NW some months ago. Its in a south-facing window and still in the same 3 pot with the same soil mix as

pygmy sundews bare root

QuestionHi, there. I just received my first sundews, mostly pygmies, in the mail. I plan on keeping them in separate pots in a 10 gallon tank, terrarium-style. I live in Memphis, TN (zone7b) and will keep them insid

what can i do?

Questionlast year my garden was fruitful but 80% of it was consumed by bugs mice and other strays. i fixed all but the bug problem. can i plant a carnivorous plant or a few in my Indiana garden and if so

Starting VFT seeds??

Question I am getting some VFT seeds and want to know if I can start them in just pure Peat Moss? I dont want to use perlite or sand and thought it should be fine. What is your opinion? Thank you,

I have a few questions on hybrids

QuestionI went to your site a few times and saw many kinds of beautiful hybrids (some that are just created). How do I create hybrids just like that? How do you do it? I am sure that it is not just

biology

Questionwhere is the spoonleaf sundew found?Climate,locations,soil type.And how does it reproduce? AnswerHello Karla, The problem with trying to give specific environmental and species information is that the spoo

What Nepenthes do you consider to be ultra highlanders?

QuestionI only know a few such as Nepenthes Rajah and lowii. i am building a terrarium. AnswerHi Jake, Off the top of my head would be the ones you mentioned, N. villosa, N. Khasiana, N. hamata, N. sibuyuens

N. rajah

QuestionHi i was wondering what is the key to keeping nepenthes rajah i am only nine and i do not know a lot about carnivorous i currently have the spotted form of nepenthes alata,3 fly traps,one sundew,darlintonia

Nepenthes Yellow Leaves

QuestionI have had this Nepenthes (I believe that it is a N. Ventricos) for about three months and it was growing really well but recently it has started turning yellow, it started from the bottom and worked its way

red/green baby adalae sundew

QuestionHi, I have many sundews growing and multiplying nicely and producing a lot of dew. I grow all of them in the SAME pot. BUT I noticed that some of the 3 weeks old baby sundews are strictly red and

Plant light/Nepenthes

QuestionHi, i just had a few questions reguarding these things. First, my N. Ventricosa is growing the the same conditions as my other nepenthes. They are hanging in the window and get light when the sun

Nepentheses Liquid

QuestionI am a high school botany teacher, and one of my students is doing some research on Napentheses. He would like to conduct an experiment to see if it is the enzymes or the sugar that helps to trap the i