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  1. Shadowtski

    Drosera Hybridization, My First Attempt

    I attempted to hybridize Drosera capensis "Typical" and Drosera aliciae this morning. This is my first effort at creating a hybrid. I waited until flowers from both plants were wide open. Then I took some tiny cuticle scissors and cut off one of the anthers from the D. aliciae flower. The...
  2. Ngantnier

    Nepenthes in vitro

    So last night I was feeling well and decided to try my hand at tissue culture. I sowed 3 tubes each of D.regia, N.talangensis x aristolochiodes, and N.globosa seeds. I have not attempted plant tissue culture before but I'm a lab scientist so I'm familiar with the technique. I'll keep this...
  3. L

    Tissue culturing Nepenthes

    Anyone know anything about tissue culture?, has anyone attempted it or knows about the process. I was just wondering so if anyone has got any information that would be great. Thanks in advance
  4. Benurmanii

    Can over-feeding a heliamphora cause the pitchers to develop brown spots?

    I beleive I may have gotten overzealous when I got my Maxsea for Christmas and over-did it on my Heliamphora heterodoxa x minor. The pitcher I sprayed the most seems to be browning a lot (I also attempted to give it some ground up betta pellets in RO water, I know rookie mistake to give it so...
  5. T

    Pest?

    I was watering my plants this morning and also hoped that my near-death binata would come back to life. And so, while I was watering it, a bunch of white insect ran out of the soil and tried to escape. I attempted to kill them all by drowning them and they all started flying or jumping. What...
  6. Av8tor1

    misc cell phone pics

    taken yesterday... First flower from one of my hybrids, large one at that Second flower on same stalk, attempted pollination earlier today with pollen harvest from first. Hope it wasn't too late, but will know in a couple weeks. new pitcher on the hybrid in flower, she's getting big...
  7. nimbulan

    Excessive pitcher growth?

    I'm trying to figure out if this is normal. I mowed off last year's growth on my Dana's Delight and after a brief attempt to flower which was quickly chewed off by some sort of pest, it appears to be growing more than 20 pitchers while my other much larger plants produce far fewer. It's a...
  8. Kate

    What kind of damage is this and how do I fix it?

    A little over 2 weeks ago I purchased a mystery nep (I suspect N. x ventrata). Keep in mind I have never attempted growing a nep in a window before, but I got out the light meter and found the best location for it and crossed my fingers. Things are not going so well. About a week in the older...
  9. D

    Tissue Culture

    So i know that taking a tissue culture is difficult to take from nepenthes because of the bacteria, but has anyone tried different methods for success? I had thought about boiling water and sterilizing a larger portion and then attempt in a sterile environment. Any suggestion from anyone who has...
  10. P

    Exotic Aldrovanda, maybe?

    Some time ago, I began trying to obtain seeds of Australian Aldrovanda. After a smashing episode in the mail, I got in some seeds of the Esperance population, and attempted to sprout them. Using various ways, places, containers, inside/outside, in a container with a banana peel for ethylene...
  11. Radagast

    Stumped

    Hey Folks, Before I decided to post and ask for help I've attempted to do lots of searching, homework, and cannot come up with an explanation for this. About a week ago I woke up one morning and went in to check on my plants (I have my collection on a grow rack. Mainly sub-tropical Drosera...
  12. jimscott

    When to divide Sarrs

    One thing I've noticed about the trades involving Sarracenias is that those that I have received have not been single plants. They've all been clumps of fused plants. Similarly, when I've attempted to ship Dana's Delight, rubra, and Leah Wilkerson, from the surface, it appears that I have...
  13. PsychoSarah

    I Guess I Never Introduced Myself

    Hi, my name is Sarah, I actually have been on here a bit but never thought to introduce myself properly. I have been growing non native plants since age 5, in which I actually managed to grow a lemon tree in Michigan of all places, from a seed I pulled out of a store bought lemon. It survived...
  14. RL7836

    Utric hybrid giveaway (for postage)

    In my ongoing effort to clean up as well as free up some space, I realized that I have two utric hybrids that have not been adequately shared. - U. nephrophylla x U. nelumbifolia - U. nephrophylla x U. reniformis f. courte These are crosses I've made in the past 2 years. The flowers for both...
  15. RL7836

    U. humboldtii bladders (& occupant)

    Based on a request over in Jim's thread, but not wanting to hijack it any more than I already have... Several years ago, following elgecko's lead, I stuck a pot of U. longifolia over a jar of water & allowed it to grow. The longifolia loved it but I didn't. U. longifolia bladders are very...
  16. LeafKirby

    Why hasn't the D. Regia x Dionaea hybrid been attempted again?

    I'm just curious :( Is it cause Regia is still too hard to grow in general or is there just lack of interest? I would have really thought someone would have pulled it off by now even if the resulting seed isn't fertile.
  17. JB_OrchidGuy

    drosophylum tips??

    I received some drosophylum seeds five of them at the end of last year. I've been afraid to plant them. I need to plant them and get them going before the go bad. I would greatly appreciate some tips on how to start and maintain this genus. I've never attempted to grow them before and honestly I...
  18. DND

    ICPS - Cephalotus article by Richard Nun, Volume 43 March 2014

    Permission from ICPS was sort from author to put into all forums. Here the whole PDF file with the pictures can be downloaded: https://www.dropbox.com/s/padc7yy2hh148y0/cpnl-43-01-05.pdf News and Views...
  19. mcmcnair

    Homebrewing!

    For those of you that may be interested, one of my other hobbies is homebrewing. I'm still relatively new to it but last week I decided to embark on a pretty cool adventure... making Chicha de Jora! So the other night I stumbled upon the Chicha episode of Brewmasters via Netflix and seeing that...
  20. Maiden

    Chuck Norris facts

    On the 6th day, God created Chuck Norris. On the 7th day, God rested. On the 8th day, Chuck Norris roundhouse kicked God and took over. Chuck Norris just wanted to see what the Apple logo tasted like. The only guaranteed thing in life is death. The only guaranteed thing in death is Chuck...
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