My trip to Lowes/Home Depot

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myke66

• Oct 29, 2003

• #1

So i went to lowes today to pick up another VFT, my friend wants to get into growing, so i wanted just to get her somthing small. I go there to find 4 dead VFTs, 3 dead sundews, 1 VFT hanging on for dear life with a dried out pot. Same with a sundew. Annoyed at the care they give to them, i bought the VFT and Sundew in hopes to revive their little butts. Now, knowing that i couldnt give that one to my friend, i stopped over at home depot. I saw the greatest thing ever. About 20 EXTREMEMLY healthly VFT's. They were beautiful! 1/2 Common 1/2 dente. I wound up buying 5(!!) vfts! They are all sitting wonderfully in my tank getting some light that they clearly were deprived of. Very excited on my way home, i check my mail box, and what do i find...my NEPENTHES AND SUNDEW CAME IN! Whew, what a day! (only bad part is the dumb post man stuffed the box into my mailbox (jerk)). Oh well, hope you liked my story! Happy Growing!

 

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myke66

• Oct 29, 2003

• #2

Oh yeh, here's some pics!!
http://www.eggysworld.com/Mike-Flash/plant/

ignore the 'overhead' ones, they are old pics.

 

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droseradude

• Oct 29, 2003

• #3

Well, guess you had a fine day!

 

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Spectabilis73

• Oct 29, 2003

• #4

thats great! Looks like the sundews you have are drosera adelae and drosera spatulata

 

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myke66

• Oct 29, 2003

• #5

You nailed it!

 

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Zongyi_Yang

• Oct 29, 2003

• #6

can you tell me what nep1 is? thanks. Zongyi

 

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buckeye

• Oct 29, 2003

• #7

Good work myke!!  Sounds like you're becoming addicted to cps like the rest of us!!!

  -buckeye

 

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myke66

• Oct 29, 2003

• #8

The nep is a ventricosa.

 

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alandallas

• Oct 30, 2003

• #9

Be careful! Rescuing CPs from the shadows of those box nurseries can be addictive. There are somewhere around 35 VFTs living at my place right now. Then there are those invasive Neps that have taken over my enclosure. They think the own the place now.

Happy Growing.
Alan

 

goldtrap2690

• Oct 30, 2003

• #10

cool , what company did they come from , i miss my vft dente , it died

, too bad i can't find them at my local nurseries or else i would ran there if i had to

 

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myke66

• Oct 30, 2003

• #11

Im not sure where they came from, they didnt have a logo anywhere. All it said was that the plants were from tissue culture.

 

goldtrap2690

• Oct 30, 2003

• #12

thats weird , but still you got a good deal on such healthy plants , do you think you can pick me up a dente when you go back there

 

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myke66

• Oct 31, 2003

• #13

if im ever back out where it is, sure! but i dont go out there much. few monthes ago it woulda been no prob, then i crashed my car into a tree so...ya know.

 

goldtrap2690

• Nov 4, 2003

• #14

hey myke , how are your plants doing so far expecially the vft and sundew hanging for life .

 

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Snugulz

• Nov 5, 2003

• #15

Such heroism! Hurray for you, Myke

 

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myke66

• Nov 5, 2003

• #16

The VFT and sundew are doing very well, the sundew just put up another leaf, and the vft has 2 new traps growing. seems like a good water and a good 14 hours a day of light does a plant good  

 

IceDragon

• Nov 18, 2003

• #17

Heh, I found this really nice venus flytrap at home depo awhile ago the whole entire trap is blood red this includes the interior, spines and the outside! The leaf had little bits of pink on it too.

 

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myke66

• Nov 23, 2003

• #18

Awesome IceDragon, ya never know where a small treasure might pop up!

 

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Electric Carnivores

• Nov 25, 2003

• #19

Goldtrap2690 i miss my Dete's too but i traded them for heli with alot of m sarrcenia's as well but i guess that worth it tho! me and dean cook made this deal all post the heli pics when they come !

 

goldtrap2690

• Nov 25, 2003

• #20

your lucky EC , a dnete and some sarrs for a heliamphora , thats a great deal , i don't miss my dente anymore because i got a new one from the pft sale , its wonderful and ti came with 4 plantlets .