- Sun Sep 24, 2017 5:31 am
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I have been growing CPs for several years. Keeping them alive is another story. Right now, I have:
In quantities worth giving away/trading/selling:
Drosera Burmanii
Drosera Spatulata
Drosera binata var dichotoma (Giant)
Byblis liniflora
Byblis guehoi
Well established but no spares:
Nepenthes Ampullaria (2)
Nepenthes Mirabillis
Pinguicula Hans/Tina
Pinguicula Esseriana
Pinguicula Aphrodite
Pinguicula collimensis x gigantea
Work in progress - germinating/sowed/too tiny to count on:
Venus flytraps - all red
Venus flytraps - Adrian Slack's giant
Byblis gigantea
Byblis lamellata
Drosophyllum
Coming soon with any luck:
Drosera curviscapa
Drosera stolonifera (tuberous)
Drosera regia
Drosera macrophylla (tuberous)
Drosera peltata (tuberous)
Drosera adelae
Drosera venusata
I'm growing plants near Bombay (Mumbai). Weather here is... hot and humid for the most part. Summers can reach in upper 30s. Temps dropping below 20 degrees at any time of the year is rare. Not unheard of, but rare. No question of frosts, etc. So a lot of the instructions I find on the internet don't work. Instructions for saving your plants from a heat spell are not very useful for saving them from permanent heat. Adapting plants can be a big pain. Some don't care. Tropical droseras and byblis love it here. People can't get byblis to germinate, it is a weed here. I suspect drosophyllum will too, if I can convince it to germinate. Keeping pings alive is a work of art and has cost me a fortune to the point I should probably give up. Lowland nepenthes are fine. I doubt other pitchers will work here, though I find heliamphora fascinating.
In quantities worth giving away/trading/selling:
Drosera Burmanii
Drosera Spatulata
Drosera binata var dichotoma (Giant)
Byblis liniflora
Byblis guehoi
Well established but no spares:
Nepenthes Ampullaria (2)
Nepenthes Mirabillis
Pinguicula Hans/Tina
Pinguicula Esseriana
Pinguicula Aphrodite
Pinguicula collimensis x gigantea
Work in progress - germinating/sowed/too tiny to count on:
Venus flytraps - all red
Venus flytraps - Adrian Slack's giant
Byblis gigantea
Byblis lamellata
Drosophyllum
Coming soon with any luck:
Drosera curviscapa
Drosera stolonifera (tuberous)
Drosera regia
Drosera macrophylla (tuberous)
Drosera peltata (tuberous)
Drosera adelae
Drosera venusata
I'm growing plants near Bombay (Mumbai). Weather here is... hot and humid for the most part. Summers can reach in upper 30s. Temps dropping below 20 degrees at any time of the year is rare. Not unheard of, but rare. No question of frosts, etc. So a lot of the instructions I find on the internet don't work. Instructions for saving your plants from a heat spell are not very useful for saving them from permanent heat. Adapting plants can be a big pain. Some don't care. Tropical droseras and byblis love it here. People can't get byblis to germinate, it is a weed here. I suspect drosophyllum will too, if I can convince it to germinate. Keeping pings alive is a work of art and has cost me a fortune to the point I should probably give up. Lowland nepenthes are fine. I doubt other pitchers will work here, though I find heliamphora fascinating.