- Fri May 02, 2014 11:45 pm
#202013
To tell this tale, I must mention that the weather down here in South Louisiana has been warm and sunny. I only recently found my first VFT at Lowes. Read and re-read this website. Added a few typicals and got a few from Flytrapstore. Everybody is doing fine. Slightly over a month and i see new growth.
I have been growing hot peppers for several years. And with this recent burst of 80 degree weather and sunny days, my peppers have been exploding with growth. New pepper I'm growing this year is Carolina Reaper, hottest pepper in the world. So, I needed to make a Lowes run to get some supplies for the peppers. I casually moseyed by the small section where the carnivores are kept. Looked at some very nice vft's, large traps, pretty red colors. bright lively greens. But i don't need any more vft's right now. And if I got more, it would be from flytrapstore, G16, DCXL. I like large and red. And I like what I got from fts just a few weeks ago. Then It Happened. I saw something different in one of those horrid plastic cases. Purple Pitcher. Sarracenia purpurea. (Wish I had taken Latin in school). I had to get it. $9.95. Re-potted it in a container mostly filled with peat, perlite and sand with a top layer of lfsm. I had to clean it up some. It was covered with loose fibers and moss debris. Looked like some evil entity shook the container spreading the loose moss all over. I gently sprayed the outside of the pitchers with water (ro, of course) and tried to brush off some of the debris. Worked okay. I might have gotten more off if i was more aggressive, but i didn't want to do that. So my grow list increases. I was lured.
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I have been growing hot peppers for several years. And with this recent burst of 80 degree weather and sunny days, my peppers have been exploding with growth. New pepper I'm growing this year is Carolina Reaper, hottest pepper in the world. So, I needed to make a Lowes run to get some supplies for the peppers. I casually moseyed by the small section where the carnivores are kept. Looked at some very nice vft's, large traps, pretty red colors. bright lively greens. But i don't need any more vft's right now. And if I got more, it would be from flytrapstore, G16, DCXL. I like large and red. And I like what I got from fts just a few weeks ago. Then It Happened. I saw something different in one of those horrid plastic cases. Purple Pitcher. Sarracenia purpurea. (Wish I had taken Latin in school). I had to get it. $9.95. Re-potted it in a container mostly filled with peat, perlite and sand with a top layer of lfsm. I had to clean it up some. It was covered with loose fibers and moss debris. Looked like some evil entity shook the container spreading the loose moss all over. I gently sprayed the outside of the pitchers with water (ro, of course) and tried to brush off some of the debris. Worked okay. I might have gotten more off if i was more aggressive, but i didn't want to do that. So my grow list increases. I was lured.
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