drought

A few months ago, I received a D. aliciae plant off e-bay, and it was under the size of a quarter, pretty small. I put it into a terrarium, and it grew to well over its original size, but it was pretty pale, and I realized it could use some more light. So, I put it outside on my balcony, where...

Hi all! New CP gardener here. Since i am new to this i am hoping you guys can help me out with some questions i have. First my setup, it is a 6X4 outdoor drained bog garden(with liner). I have 12 American pitcher plants that i started from bare root in April. They seem to be doing well for the...

I feel sort of like old Gandalf after he returned from his todo with the Balrog! I've been very sick for a year with a dermatitis (still unknown cause) and have been without a computer since last September. It's been a hard road, and although I am improving, there is a long stretch ahead yet...

Hello fellow CPers. My Nepenthes hamata suffered a week-long drought over the summer last year. This caused the leaves to grow smaller, yet as strong as the previous ones. It's growth of rate wasn't as impressive as when I had first received it, and the pitchers' size had obviously been greatly...

This rare native tree has a problem. The mammoths are gone. Now there is nothing to eats its pods and spread its seeds, they just fall right under the tree, and without the grinding of the mammoth jaws they wont germinate easily... sacrifying the tough seedcoat substitutes this process. This...

It's time to rebuild a bit after a bad summer (eg see "Ode to Raccoons" in the Nepenthes forum), and i've reconfigured to have more lowland space (so much easier to maintain in my present circumstances).   Anyway, if you have a Nepenthes species (not hybrid) not on my list, let me know! I'm...

Ok i was lucky enough to get some roridula dentata seeds from ICPS. i realize you need to let them soak up smoke from a fire or something. I have a outside fire ring which i can use. Now can you plant the seeds in a pot of its soil and stick it above the smoke. should i put the soil near the...

I found this article and first thought it couldn't be real. Then I realized it probably is. http://www.saratogian.com/site....1&rfi=9

We're having a drought here.  I'm keeping my plants well watered though.  Tommorrow's temps are supposed to be in the low '90's...Friday's temps even higher. Should I have the trays with my Sarrs. up off the ground? Some of the trays are on concrete...some of them are on asphalt.   When I...

Yes, this is similar to my post from a few weeks ago. After a lot of back and forth and a lot of offers of things i really didn't want, as well as a couple successful trades, i'm trying this post again the right way from the start now that i've figured out what information and conditions i need...

1) hillside with sun from 10-12 noon (starting) and ending at 6-8 (winter to spring) 2) does not die in frost n(non-decidous) 3) lives in zone 9 (and flowers) 4) flowers a lot 5) will stand drought 6) is managable (does not seed prolificlly) So far I have succeeded in 0 plants fitting this...

I've finally gotten off my duff and propagated some of my plants, and had great success (100%) with the cuttings. I have the following well-rooted cuttings for trade: Nepenthes N. sanguinea "Dark Red" - How anything else could be called "sanguinea", i don't know. Bloody amazing. (pun intended)...

2017/6: Gave away most and lost the rest of my CPs in 2010. Starting from zilch again! ~~~~ Previous growlist ~~~~ Most Desired Plants N. edwardsiana (wouldn't that be nice?) N. tenuis N. veitchii Bareo highlands N. albomarginata 'rubra' (all red) N. jacquelineae (especially red) N...

I rooted a tip cutting from an N. gracilis "Dusky" early last year, and left it in the cup of water. It grew bigger and better than the other cuttings (in part because of an inadvertent drought), and i finally potted it. The root system was pretty impressive. I am, again, amazed at the...

Every time the topic of epiphytic species comes up, the knee jerk response is to say that they are difficult to grow and unsuitable for beginners. Is this really true? I would like to hear from people who have had trouble growing these plants. With the exception of U. quelchii, which has only...

I am thinking about building a bog garden of CPs at my school. It has a natural clay bog out back, and it doesn't get any chemical runoff! Anyone have any advice on how to design it? What sort of plants should I use? Thanks, Craig PS it stays wet all year, even in times of drought

Hi, I'm new around here, so I'm kind of nervous posting, but here we go. I had recently gotten into gardening and so far have had great success with my plants (non-carnivorous tihngs like roses, moonflowers, tomoatos, peppers, pumpkins and so on.) And a friend of mine brought me a VFT kit that...

Now first, I am talking about your really hardy specimens here... not the uber sensetive ultra highlanders and what not... but here is basically what I am thinking... I have on my desk two home depot nepenthes (well, 2 pots, actually about 5 plants) and a ventricosa. I water with distilled...

Hi. I am new at this and ya'll have really helped me a lot. I have quite a few venus fly traps and a few pitcher plants and I have been giving them only distilled water. They are doing great. I was just wondering about water filters. If I were to purchase a filter with a carbon insert and...