FlytrapCare Carnivorous Plant Forums

Hello everyone! I've been growing carnivorous plants off-and-on for the past 40 years. For the last 20 years, it has definitely been "on". I live in eastern North Carolina, about 40 miles / 65 kilometers west of the flytrap's native range. My plants spend almost all of them time outdoors, except for brief stays in the garage when hard cold snaps hit in the winter. I currently have 400-500 plants in my collection (counting all of the seedlings):

Dionaea muscipula (Venus flytrap): A2, Australian Red Rosette, B52, Dutch Delight, Fine Tooth x Red, Flaming Lips, Ginormous, Gremlin, Grün, Jaws, Low Giant, Maroon Monster, Megatrap, Purple Ambush, Red Onyx, Royal Red, Slack's Giant, Vigorous, Wally, Yellow, lots of Typicals

Drosera capillaris (Emerald's Envy, Long Arm), filiformis (regular, Dreamsicle, regular x Florida Red), intermedia (regular and Carolina Giant)

Sarracenia flava (var. cuprea, flava, maxima, ornata, rubricorpora, rugelii), purpurea ssp. venosa (Red, Tatnall County), rosea

S. rosea is my latest obsession. I've had a 16-inch / 40-centimeter urn pot full of them for over years. I divided the pot this spring and now have 36 plants in 4-inch / 20-centimeter pots. Last fall, I picked up 4 new rosea's, none of them having more than a passing resemblance to the others.

I've attached some pictures of my "obsession". My plants are still looking a bit shabby because they're just now coming out of dormancy.

Mike

Nice collection. Where are you in NC? My wife has family in Shallote.

Wow! That is a ton of plants! I really want to see vfts in their natural habitat. Have you tried creating a bog garden? You wouldn't have to do as much maintenance on it.

Panman wrote:Nice collection. Where are you in NC? My wife has family in Shallote.

I'm a little ways southeast of Raleigh.

sanguinearocks101 wrote: ↑Sat Apr 25, 2020 10:12 pmI really want to see vfts in their natural habitat.

There's a public carnivorous plant garden in Wilmington that has a ton of plants growing in a pocosin (Algonquin for "swamp on a hill").

Have you tried creating a bog garden? You wouldn't have to do as much maintenance on it.

When I lived in Charlotte, NC a few years ago, I had an 8-foot X 4 foot raised-bed bog garden. Unfortunately, I don't have a good place to put one at my current house.

About i7 years ago my sons and I made a journey into the Green Swamp Preserve in Supply, NC. Sorry about the quality of the pics but these are some of what we saw.

Nice, Panman! I always have wanted visit the plants in their natural habitat!

And MikeB, how long did it take you to get that many purpureas, and how many did you start with?

Hello MikeB and welcome! What a great collection of plants you have!! Thanks for sharing the photos

Benny wrote: ↑Sun Apr 26, 2020 5:26 amAnd MikeB, how long did it take you to get that many purpureas, and how many did you start with?

In the S. purpurea department, I currently have one venosa 'Red' and three venosa 'Tatnall County'.

In the S. rosea department, I originally bought one plant from Steve Crump in Charlotte back in 2004. I put it in a 16-inch / 40-centimeter urn pot and gave it to my in-laws. Since then, I've divided the pot 3 times and gotten 25+ plants each time. The last round, just a month ago, produced 34 plants. After they put on a nice crop of new pitchers, I'll be looking for new homes for them. I also picked up 4 new roseas last fall, looking forward to a diverse crop this summer.

Hello fellow North Carolinian! Welcome to the forums!

Awesome collection. Quick question, is the Venus Flytrap "Gremlin" as rapidly clumping as they say? I was thinking of getting one. Thanks!

_-SphagnumFromHell-_ wrote:Awesome collection. Quick question, is the Venus Flytrap "Gremlin" as rapidly clumping as they say? I was thinking of getting one. Thanks!

If the pictures from this website are true, then it definitely is.https://carnivorousplantresource.com/th ... p-gremlin/

_-SphagnumFromHell-_ wrote: ↑Tue May 12, 2020 5:09 pm Awesome collection. Quick question, is the Venus Flytrap "Gremlin" as rapidly clumping as they say? I was thinking of getting one. Thanks!

I've had the Gremlin cultivar for just a few months. I'm eager to see what it'll do this summer.

In the "all-green and multiplies like a weed" category, I've been very impressed by my Grün cultivar plants. So far, I've managed to divide one 4.5-inch / 11 centimeter pot and got 15 plants from it. I have 3 more pots to divide, not sure where I'm going to put them all....

@MikeB, I know that feeling. I divided a bunch of typical flytraps at the beginning of this spring and I went from three pots to five. And I was still keeping a bunch of divisions together.

In the "all-green and multiplies like a weed" category, I've been very impressed by my Grün cultivar plants. So far, I've managed to divide one 4.5-inch / 11 centimeter pot and got 15 plants from it. I have 3 more pots to divide, not sure where I'm going to put them all....

Matt has a buyback/trade program. its great. normally he does the buyback program but I don't know how business is right now with cv19. However, everybody needs a Grun. that's a amazing plant.