FlytrapCare Carnivorous Plant Forums

Hi all.

Lee here from Kwa Zulu Natal South Africa.

Recently acquired my first carnivorous plants about a month and a bit ago. (VFT, Saracenia (American trumpet) and Ventricosa trumpet.

Since then I've acquired another pitcher, 2 different Trumpets, a sundew and a purpurea.

Sadly these creatures have become a bit of an obsession now lol. Often being accused by my other half of giving them more attention...

The daily struggle to not keep buying more is becoming increasingly difficult...

Looking forward to interacting with you guys and hopefully steal some of your wisdom

Chat soon...

Lee

Just some pics of my babies...

They look lovely and healthy!

Welcome to FlytrapCare!

Welcome lee.

I got two words.


DROSERA REGIA!

Man your very convenient! Haha. How close are you from their location

Bhart90 that's just evil dude. JUST when I was getting the urge to buy more carnivorous under control...

I live up in the Midlands Nottingham Rd area. It's kinda similar to Cape Town Highlands (thier local natural habitat) climatic actually. So mnnnn..... Guess I know what to get next lol...

The winters here are much colder than cape Town tho. It snows... So if they can survive this kind of cold then hell yes, I'm going to investigate buying one...

Well be sure to keep you updated.

Do you have one?

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O yea, I'm going to message my other friend on here who knows more about them than i, his name is Fishman, him and I worship ours hahahaha.

I got no pictures atm but yea.

Apparently there are 2 different varieties.
One is just "typical"
Another is called "big easy" which wraps it's self around it's prey.

And call me brenden if possible, I wish I could change that to my name but w/e

You always live there?

Brenden I so hate you right now...

Just ordered a large big easy.... Along with a few others.

Oh God I'm so going to be given a divorce [FACE WITH TEARS OF JOY][FACE WITH TEARS OF JOY][FACE WITH TEARS OF JOY]

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From Durban originally. But we recently sold everything and moved up here... Got tired of the big city life and wanted something more laid back...

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My new garden and it's view

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Lots of space for carnivores lol

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Careful, it easily spirals out of control! Since you're clearly going to end up with a lot more over the years, I'd recommend this to make it easy:

1. Find cheap, deep identical pots and buy a lot of them. When you have lots of plants, it gets pretty hard to keep up with which needs water and when if they're all in different size containers and different media.
2. Find some bulk media and even keep some pre-mixed/washed on hand. It always comes in handy

Welcome to the forum!

Tx for advice.... Your right. Now this seems easy as I only have about 8. But that's rapidly increasing

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Show pics when you can lee.

Also, curious, you got any links to the places you buy them from around there? Just want a brief culture shock

Hiya Brenden...

I buy from 2 places. Jozi Carnivores and more recently Pans Carnivores.

There is also another place I found called cultivo carnivores but I haven't purchased from them yet.

Look them up on Facebook. You might be pleasantly surprised at how non backwards we are lol... Well.... current president excluded:-) :-p

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