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Since spring is officially over and summer is here, I thought I'd dump a couple fotos of what's left in my collection and give a brief description. I let most of my dionaea flower this season to collect a lot of seed, so my plants don't look as generally attractive and aren't as big as they were last year at this time. Most of you will be familiar with the size of an FTS cup, so that will serve as size reference. Anyway, here they are:

Flaming Lips - I got this around 1 year ago as a very small, pale division in a trade


Trich x Coquillage - also received this in a trade about a year ago as a small division I believe


Alien - started out as starter sized plant in early '15 and really struggled, almost lost it a couple times. It finally pulled through after dormancy this spring


Fuzzy Tooth - consistently puts out fuzzy teeth during the spring/summer, one of my favorites


Werewolf Spawn - awesome variety. It flowered (non-functional flower, no seed harvest) and is making babies now


KMS - never ceases to amaze


6 seed growns from FTS red mix



Petiolaris Sundew - started out as 1 plant last October and now the rhizome is a massive clump hopefully waiting to split a few times



Drosera Caduca - also in the peteolaris complex family


Drosera Madagascariensis - staying strong, I'm propping it up by tying the dead flower stalks to the little pole


Fork-Leaf cross drosera seedlings from the next photo


Marston's Dragon and Multifida Extrema mother pots


Shot of my various red cultivars, not doing so well since they didn't get a dormancy


King Henry trap


Expired Polish Dracula trap (for size)


Grün trap next to my finger with one of my favorite cultivars below - bristletooth


Typicals - started out as around 10-15 Home Depot/Winn Dixie rescues, now they've almost surely tripled in quantity


Wacky traps - 1 of 2 mature plants that I own. Easily my favorite especially when you see the unique flower morphology


An assortment of sarracenias + a drosera tracyii var traycii I think..


Nepenthes Ventrata - the only variety of nepenthes out of around 10 that I've been able to grow in my climate. It grows outside in intense heat, but is ALWAYS in the shade. It may receive 1 or 2 hours of direct sunlight in the early hours of dawn - I don't know, never checked. There's 2 more plants popping up from the roots of the mother plant now. I've been using osmocote pellets on this monster and it really shows from month to month



And to close a shot of my growing ledge where all the magic happens. As you might have noticed I have various anti-pest measures in place including but not limited to: scary owls, saw blades attached to the bins, long poles standing straight up inside the bins, a spray bottle of neem oil + a BB gun. And something is still eating my plants..

That's a beaut

Wow they all look great I especially love the color on your Flaming Lips

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How and where do you grow your traps sir

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Your plants look amazing! And your Nepenthes Ventricosa looks more like a Nepenthes Ventrata to me.

Wow! Do you take the petiolairs indoors during the fall and winter? What is their setup like?

Awesome collection with tons of variety!!!

Indeed it's a ventrata, thanks for the correction. I keep all plants outside year round

Handrail Pete wrote:Indeed it's a ventrata, thanks for the correction. I keep all plants outside year round

Woah, what are your temps like? Do the petiolaris 'dews go dormant? That one that has split looks amazingly healthy for year-round outdoors.

Temps are in the 80s and 90s most of the year and drop only 10 degrees or so during the winter. Both of my petiolarises did go dormant and woke up alongside my other vfts strong. I've been growing it for less than a year so we'll see what happens in the future

Handrail Pete wrote:Temps are in the 80s and 90s most of the year and drop only 10 degrees or so during the winter. Both of my petiolarises did go dormant and woke up alongside my other vfts strong. I've been growing it for less than a year so we'll see what happens in the future

Oh I did not know that you live in a hot climate. Congrats on waking those petiolaris Drosera out of dormancy! apparently it is pretty difficult to do.

I live 72 miles north of the "tropics" and technically it's sub-tropical here. But yeah for all practical purposes I live in the tropics, so growing these wonderful petiolaris dews requires no extra effort on my part. I've completely given up on growing all but 1 nepenthes, heliamphora, and cephalotus though