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Dionaea Muscipula: Photo thread

  • #21
Thanks for the kind words vraev, it has taken several years for my mini-bog to mature to this point.

Here is the mini-bog at one year old, in the beginning I had a problem of the perlite seperating from the peat and floating to the top after a hard rain resulting in a big mess.
But as the bog matured and the mosses took hold the problem fixed itself.
Now it is pretty much problem free.
FWIW, I treat it with Trichoderma fungi and Bacillius bacteria monthly (Ampac Biotech and/or SubCulture products) (I treat all my plants)
and I use Bayer Advanced™ Rose & Flower systemic Insect Killer monthly as needed
earlyminibog.jpg



As far as I know it is a Green Dragon, or at least that is what I was told when I purchased it a few years back.

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  • #22
yeah...it definately matches a green dragon. The reason I guessed red dragon is ONLY under INTENSE light does the red dragon stay completely red. Mine is washing out with every single trap it puts out. I remember that Rick at keehns carnivores said that it might become hard to distinguish both down the road...however when my red D arrived it was blood red.

BTW...the bog looks amazing. Do you have bigger pics of it....I would like to save some pics for refernce for when I want to plant my own sarr in the garden. :)
 
  • #23
Ive got a few more that I consider to be of poor quality but if you want them... sure, just PM me your email

Here are some VFT's growing outside at the Atlanta Botanical Gardens

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  • #24
woah man! That is surely insane. :D A sea of red. :D amazing looking red dragons or green dragons there. :D (It gets really hard to distinguish among the two) :D
 
  • #26
I love those bog things so much but I have one question.. how do you keep them watered enough? A giant water tray? o.o?
 
  • #27
Bogs are usually undrained, so just keep the water level up to a few inches below the surface.
 
  • #28
LOL, a giant clay tray at that ;)

"Not" is exactly right,

In mine there are a couple holes poked in the side just below the surface level...
and the peat is deep enough that (the deper the better IMHO) I really dont have to worry about it watering it unless there has been no rain for more then a week,
but if the humidity is low I'll watch it a little closer...

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  • #29
Ohhh cool... I think I'm gonna make one of those this summer.

I was thinking in terms of like a small pot with a tray, in the summer here they dry out and need to be refilled almost every day unless it's cloudy or it rains. I dunno how but I forgot how the size of it greatly effects that. x_x
 
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