I put these in my intro thread so please excuse me for repeating mice elf.
I just started CP collecting about 2 weeks ago with a batch of vfts (typs, reds and dentae), a few dews and a nepenthes. I bought 7 vfts from lowes because they were in amazingly good shape and I wanted to practice settign up a minibog for the 8 vfts I ordered online. However my online order was delayed so the shipper gave me 24 plants instead!!! Nice of him!
So here's my muddling with bogs and I would like to say that you people helped cause Ive been lurking your blog for weeks. And any mistakes I made were solely my own... unless I read it here [/img]
FYI I used pots that are approx 6" deep & 12" across, 2" deep trays 14" across for water, 50/50 sand peat mix and a top dressing of peat(orchid sphag/peat moss).
this is the batch from lowes:
These are the online plants.
Some dentae with 4 typs in the middle that I got from dangerousplants, small compared to the lowes (much younger I would guess) but thriving madly, grow like weeds, can see the difference from am to pm:
and finally a ring of reds around 4 typs, from same seller, bigger than the dentae but still small, tons of traps coming up that appear to be getting bigger than those currently seen:
These pics were taken the day after setup and over the past week I can tell you they seem to be enjoying their new home, possibly the fastest growing plants Ive ever seen... then again I cannot think of when previously I have spent much time trying to watch plants grow.
Cant wait to see how they look in a few months!