• I received my first venus fly trap from the Flytrap Store, this afternoon.  It is an awesome little red plant.  As corny as it is, my daughter and I named it Audrey, after the plant in Little Shop of Horrors.  We are very excited about growing this little plant.  I would have loved putting it in the sun light for a while this afternoon, but its raining.  Maybe tommorrow.

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I've been using Maxsea 16*16*16 at a concentration of 1.5 teaspoons/gallon on my Heliamphora nutans and Heliamphora minor for about 6 weeks now. I've been drenching the soil thoroughly every 2 weeks and then thoroughly drenching with distilled water about every 4 to 5 days. They seem to be responding very well to the fertilizer. The H. nutans is doing much better most likely because it's been established a month longer than the H. minor which is still likely getting over shipping and transplanting shock.

I've had the H. nutans since November 13th and the H. minor only since December 20th. The growth on the H. minor isn't as obvious, though it's there, so I'm only showing some photos of the H. nutans.

Here are some before shots of the Heliamphora nutans taken on December 14th.

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Couldnt believe it when I saw a flower bud pop out in late January! Is this right?

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Until recently I'd never even heard of the Venus fly trap clone "A2" developed by Henning von Schmeling.  I was exchanging some emails with David Conner and he mentioned it in passing.  I was immediately interested and went on the look for a trade.  I was able to secure myself a clone from the very generous Jeremiah Harris of the Colorado Carnivorous Plant Society.

I received the clone in the mail today, January 16th, 2010 and immediately potted it up.  It's a rather healthy looking dormant plant with good coloration.  I'm excited to see what it looks like during the growing season.

Here are a couple of photos of what it looked like after I potted it up.

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    Ok, so a couple of months ago I ordered nepenthes seeds from ebay. When I got the seeds, I forgot to plant them for about 2 weeks.. then I finally did. When I opened the packet, the seeds didn't look good to me, even though I've never seen nep seeds before. So I planted them anyway, and to surprise, they sprouted! 
   
     They are N. Maxima, but the funny thing is, is that the seeds I ordered were not N. maxima, they were different seeds... I froget what though. But the ones that I ordered didn't sprout at all, but the N. maxima seeds were extras and they sprouted. haha.. I just thaought that was kinda random. Here are a few pics of the seedlings! taken about 2 weeks ago, many more have sprouted now. :D

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 will update these seedlings in a few months. Happy growing!

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Got some dumbells today with 20Kg weights time to pump some iron!!!

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I've been interested in Heliamphora for a while now.  The fact that they're somewhat hard to find in the US along with the fact that they're very expensive when you do find them has prevented me from buying any until now.

I finally splurged and got myself a nice one for Christmas.  I actually got quite a few other seedlings as well just a week ago, including two Heliamphora pulchella, one Heliamphora minor, one Heliamphora heterodoxa and one Heliamphora nutans.  I got the Heliamphora nutans in November from Cook's Carnivores.

But this is the first adult Heliamphora that I've ever seen and I think it's absolutely gorgeous!  I hope that you enjoy the photos.

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Hello everyone again, I'd like to share some photos of my heliamphora minor 'red form' with you today, and talk a little about it. This is my only heli, and I love it. I'll be getting more heli's over time, but right now it's just this little guy with me. :) This is a heliamphora minor Auyantepui, or red form. It is more of a lowland species of heliamphora so it tolerates warmer conditions. It get's red really easily, wich is what I love about it. This heli also divides often, mine hasn't divided yet, but it will eventually. Here are some pics of the two pitchers that grew under my care:

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Hello everyone, I'd like to talk about one of my dews. It's called D. burmannii 'giant red'. Burmannii is a small species of sundew, it get's less then an inch wide, but like it's name says, it get's larger then the typical burmannii and has a beautiful red colour. Burmannii is also a faster sundew then usual, it's tentacles fold over it's prey fairly quickly, but nothing like a VFT. There is a sundew that does go as fast as a VFT though, it's called Drosera glanduligera. Also known as the snap trapping sundew. Here are some photos of my D. burmannii 'giant red'

This pic is my fav pic of it, but it's when it didn't have that red colour to it:


this pic it does have that red colours in it, but the pic isn't as good as the other:


thanks for looking!

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I thought it would be interesting to document the growth of my Cephalotus.

I ordered this from Steve_D at flytrapranch.com.  I received the plant on June 29, 2009.

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