Posted by: Matt
on Oct 23, 2009
I have no idea what species of Drosera this is, but I'm growing quite fond of it:
Posted by: Matt
on Aug 20, 2009
So Leah and I finally made the move to Ashland, Oregon. Since getting settled in, I've got my new greenhouse set up! I'm very excited about that. It gives me plenty of room to expand my collection.
Unfortunately I kept most of my collection inside under fluorescent lights this spring in order to try to keep them cleaner so I could gather tissue for tissue culture. When we arrived here in Ashland, I planned to just put them out in the greenhouse and let them acclimate. I had no idea that the temperatures would be over 100°F the week we got here. Between the heat and the intense sun that they weren't used to, most of them burned to a crisp!
The plants in these photos were either outside when we were living in Boulder, have recovered or, for one reason or another, weren't affected as badly by making the move from fluorescent lights to direct sunlight.
Posted by: nzl
on Apr 28, 2009
Previously, on "Niels and the Insectivores": Yay! A flesh eating plant! ... Oh No! Fungus!
And now... The story continues.
"Come on Donnie 1, 2 and 3. You can make it!" said Niels in an encouraging manner to his pretty small plants. For weeks now, he had seen new leafs emerging and getting burnt by the huge Fusion Reactor in the sky, followed by new leafs emerging but not getting quite bigger than the previous ones. Tired of playing the waiting game, Niels decided to acquire some more Flytraps to inspire Donnie 1, 2 and 3, and to help them remember what they were growing to become actually.
Posted by: flesh-cladmonster
on Feb 05, 2009
I am just now starting my carnivorous plant collection, but there really aren't that many good websites out there. The ones that are easy to find have bad plants and some of them don't exist at all! They are just frauds. Thanks to a few suggestions, I'm going to rate the websites I've ordered from based on experience. If you would like to add anything about experiences with a particular website, please leave a comment and I'll figure it in! Websites will be rated on a scale of 1 to 5. A website with a score of 0 means that they did not communicate and the plants were not received. The websites are in order from best to worst.
Criteria
1) Plant health upon arrival
2) Plant size
3) Shipment speed
4) Seller communication
US Websites Ratings
www.flytrapranch.com: 5 of 5
www.kyleskillerplants.com: 4 of 5
www.flytrapshop.com: 4 of 5
www.connerscarnivores.com: 4 of 5
www.californiacarnivores.com: 4 of 5
www.dangerousplants.com: 4 of 5
www.bugbitingplants.com: 3 of 5
www.flytraps.com: 1 of 5
www.tropicalcarnivorousplants.com: 0 of 5
Posted by: Matt
on Nov 22, 2008
Drosera capensis is generally considered to be a weed. If it is a weed, it is my favorite weed. I love the way it looks when the sun hits the dew, and I find the "All Red" variety extremely gorgeous. I thought I would share a couple of photos.
Drosera capensis "All White" above.
Posted by: Matt
on Oct 09, 2008
Well, it's getting late in the year now and soon my flytraps will stop growing. This is a sad time for me, but I know that they must sleep through winter in order to live another year. I'll be looking forward to springtime for the next 5 months or so. In the mean time, I will be watching the seedlings that I have growing in my terrarium which I will keep warm and on a 16 hour photoperiod throughout winter so that they have a chance to get ahead before I move them outside next spring.
My plants had a really good year this year. Spring was pretty late in arriving, so I had to keep them inside until May, but once I got them outside, they started growing like crazy and never looked back. They didn't develop much color until the middle of August, but they put out tons of traps and some pretty large ones at that!
About a week ago, which was sometime around the end of September, I noticed that the new traps that my plants were producing weren't growing far from the rhizome. The leaf bases are short, the traps are very slow to form and open, and the traps aren't getting very big. Also, the traps that have already been produced are turning black and dying off the plants at a much faster pace than the were during the summer. These are all tell tale signs that my plants are winding down their growing season and preparing to enter dormancy.
Posted by: Matt
on Sep 10, 2008
So I went outside today to look at my Carnivorous Plants and I was pleasantly surprised with a beautiful pink flower on my D. Capensis 'All Red'. Below are a couple of shots.
A macro shot of the flower:
