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QuestionHi! Me again. Im going to buy a Mexican Butterwort from you next week. How do I feed it? My room is shut and has no bugs, I cant find ants, and I cant catch the fruit flies in our kitchen!

Is this venus fly trap?

Question venus fly trap??? Is this venus fly trap? I bought venus fly trap from ebay,then i use some of my orchids moss as medium.I didnt realise that the moss contain fertiliser back then.Does venus fly trap

Nepenthes Truncata Pasian Slow Growth

Question Nepenthes Truncata Nepenthes Truncata Hi I have had a Nepenthes truncata Pasian for over 2 years and it has not experienced much growth. It is roughly the same size as it was when I got it. Th

Dosersa filformis flower seeds

Question Flower shriveled up Hi i have a dosera filiformis plant that i bought 2 months back. I live in virginia and the plant gets about 6 hours of direct sunlight and sits in a distilled water tray. its bee

Acephate 97

QuestionHey Jacob, thought Id switch over here. Can you provide me with where you get the acephate 97 and how much per gallon? AnswerHi Jason, We got ours at a garden center that is now out of business. &nbs

Nepenthes muluensis x lowii

QuestionHi there Sarracenia Northwest, I have bought a nepenthes muluensis x lowii recently and I want to know what is the best way to grow this hybrid. Im aware that it has lowii ancestry in it and lowii is a

Nepenthes supports

Question My growing area What can I do inside? I havent got room for a philodendron. The windowsill is definitely CP territory. What can I give the Nepenthes x ventrata Im ordering to climb on a n

Nepenthes seed question

QuestionHello Jacob and Jeff, I have just begun a new challenge...grow 4 different nepenthes from seed. I have read all I can read online, (I also have 2 of your 3 videos) and have only one question (at the moment)

dormant sundew

Questionsundew QUESTION: This is my first time growing my plants outside. My sundew is in a water trough with a VFT and Pitcher plant. The other two plants are doing well even still putting out a

Pollinated

Question Flower Is this sarracenia purpurea flower pollinated? AnswerHi Dominick, It looks like it was. When the ovary is nice and plump and round, they are usually developing seeds. Youll know

HO lighting question

QuestionWould high, medium, or low altitude Nepenthes work best for 3000k HO florescent lights? AnswerHi John, Probably none of the above. 3,000k is very yellow-orange similar to High Pressure Sodium HID lig

Sarracenia Seedlings Soil full of Fungus Gnat Larvae

QuestionQUESTION: I have a fungus gnat infestation in the soil of my Sarracenia seedlings. I went and bought Mosquito Dunk. I put that crumbled on the top of the soil, and then a chunk in the water tray.

Tebuconazole and Darlingtonia

QuestionHey guys, I have seen that you recommend bayer tebuconazole for cobras to prevent disease. I wanted to know if you dip only bare root plants, or actually drench them in the pot. I dont have any problem

Nepenthes - Some kind of fungus or insect?

QuestionTurning brown Underside of leaf at s QUESTION: Hi Jacob! I have a Poi Dog that has been hanging in a West window with only natural light for just over a year. We keep the house aro

Drosera leaf cuttings

QuestionGreetings! I have a somewhat odd predicament. Some of the early season leaf cuttings taken from a temperate sundew (D. x beleziana Nightmare) were late to take - and just started producing plantlets within t

ants killing my cps

QuestionHello, My name is Nathaniel, I am growing sarracenia, drosera, and dionea in a 2 By 18 bog garden. Recently i found little blackants nesting in the peat, Ive tried getting rid of them but

king sundew temperature

QuestionQUESTION: Hi i plan to buy a drosera regia. I am in Nashville, tn. I read from this site the temperature at night should not exceed 65f or the plant will die from exhausion. From late October to early March

Drosera Adelae

QuestionOk, so I do not have pictures with me at the moment of these Drosera Adelae I received a week and a half ago, but I can describe them as best I can. When I first received them, they were almost complet

Update

QuestionIm the guy who asked about the light and light clamp. I am not wondering about will it fit, Im asking will the clamp be able to handle the wattage of the bulb. AnswerHi Eric, Heres how you find that

Dewy Pine ill

Question Dewy Pine Dewy pine 2 Allexperts, The Dewy Pine is not doing so well. Is the plant going to die? I would like to your opinion. I have raised the watering periods to 2 to 3 types