and yet ANOTHER Lowe's rescue...

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8abug4fun

• Jan 5, 2011

• #1

I bought 8 small pots of VFTs at Lowe's yesterday that were on the "clearance" shelves for $1 each. Each little pot has +/- 40 individual plants of all sizes. I'm only through dividing up 3 so far: big ones into separate small pots, small ones into a flat, and a few, well, into the compost bin.
Its a Venutian invasion!!!

 

Lil Stinkpot

Lucky Greenhorn

• Jan 5, 2011

• #2

Yaahhh-hooooooo! It's a repotting frenzy!

Nice catch, 8-bug!

 

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flytraplady5

Hort. School dropout X 2

• Jan 5, 2011

• #3

Gr8 find Have a wonderful time growing them up

 

Adam

Sarracenia Collector

• Jan 6, 2011

• #4

Wait, so that's like 3,200 plants?!

 

Capensis

• Jan 6, 2011

• #5

awgaupp said:

Wait, so that's like 3,200 plants?!

Click to expand...

320.

 

xvart

Doing it wrong until I do it right.

Staff member

Moderator

• Jan 6, 2011

• #6

It's amazing how congested those little cubes can get. Just check out Presto's old post!

http://www.terraforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=107934

xvart.

 

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8abug4fun

• Jan 7, 2011

• #7

I don't know how exactly the production nurseries do it: mass tissue culture I'm guessing but then growing them out so fast? poor things probably never see actual sunlight unless they get lucky enough to be placed in a store window. I've got these new rescues outside in the cold/shade to keep them in dormancy while I divide them up.
Well, we won't have any shortage of VFTs at the SF Bot. Garden's plant sales this coming year!

 

GrowinOld

Not Growing Up!

• Jan 7, 2011

• #8

You have to go to the organic garden center
to find some of them
"Free Range" VFT's!