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So I would like to buy some new Cp's but can anyone name some nice plants that aren't to hard to grow.(But im up to a challenge)
For example some species of Drosera , Heliamphora or other species for that matter.
I can provide numerous growing conditions ex. under grow lights or in my greenhouse.
I have the following species: ( I may have forgotten some )
Drosera
- Capensis
- Capensis "Alba"
- Madagascariensis
- Aliciae
- Scorpioides
- Anglica
Dionaea
-Typical
- "Red"
Sarracenia
- Flava
- Psittacina
- Purpurea
- Various hybrids
Pinguicula
- xTina
Nepenthes
- "Miranda"
- "Rebecca Soper"
- x Ventrata
- "Bloody Mary"
Heliamphora
- Nutans x Heterodoxa
Cephalotus
- Typical

Thank you for your time it took for reading this

If you're growing these, and growing them well, I don't think you'll have any issues at all.

I personally like Drosera filiformis, it has a red type and a green type. There is one called Florida All Red that doesn't require a winter dormancy which makes it easier to grow inside. The others are temperate and require a dormancy period. Binata is also a very nice Drosera.

For Dionaea it's really about preference. I would browse FTS and see what is out there.

Sarr.'s are very easy all around. It seems you have the basics down. Maybe a leucophylla if you don't have one, they're very pretty and varied.

The rest I have less experience with so I'll let someone else make recommendations there.

Drosera easy growers:
Aliciae
Spatulata
Capensis
Madagascariensis
(I wouldn't recommend anglica or scorpioides for beginners; anglica is temperate and scorpiodes is a pygmy)

External help: http://www.growsundews.com/


Flytrap easy growers:
Typical (if you get a typical, I do recommend the ones here from FlytrapStore, as they will arrive healthy - many stores sell etiolated flytraps) - the hardiness of these vary plant to plant, but most typicals I have are fairly vigorous.
B52
Big Vigorous
Pink Venus (one of the best-looking all-reds imo, and hardier than Akai Ryu)
Sawtooth
FTS Etna
FTS Maroon Monster


Sarracenia easy growers:
Leucophylla "Hurricane Creek White" (email David, he probably has these in stock) - this is one of the hardiest clones out there
Flava
Purpurea (ssp venosa, ssp purpurea, or similar S. rosea)


Nepenthes easy growers:
All the neps you mentioned are considered easy growers. A few in addition:
x Ventrata (Ventricosa x Alata hybrid - both parents are easy growers also)
Ampullaria (these stay fairly small)
Sanguinea

Cephalotus
If you can keep flytraps and nepenthes alive, you can certainly keep a ceph alive. Just remember to go easy on the watering (overwatering is the #1 cause of ceph death).

Heliamphora
Read the care sheets before proceeding; heli's are more particular about their growing environment than many other CP's.

Good luck

Veronis wrote:Drosera easy growers:
Aliciae
Spatulata
Capensis
Madagascariensis
(I wouldn't recommend anglica or scorpioides for beginners; anglica is temperate and scorpiodes is a pygmy)

External help: http://www.growsundews.com/


Flytrap easy growers:
Typical (if you get a typical, I do recommend the ones here from FlytrapStore, as they will arrive healthy - many stores sell etiolated flytraps) - the hardiness of these vary plant to plant, but most typicals I have are fairly vigorous.
B52
Big Vigorous
Pink Venus (one of the best-looking all-reds imo, and hardier than Akai Ryu)
Sawtooth
FTS Etna
FTS Maroon Monster


Sarracenia easy growers:
Leucophylla "Hurricane Creek White" (email David, he probably has these in stock) - this is one of the hardiest clones out there
Flava
Purpurea (ssp venosa, ssp purpurea, or similar S. rosea)


Nepenthes easy growers:
All the neps you mentioned are considered easy growers. A few in addition:
x Ventrata (Ventricosa x Alata hybrid - both parents are easy growers also)
Ampullaria (these stay fairly small)
Sanguinea

Cephalotus
If you can keep flytraps and nepenthes alive, you can certainly keep a ceph alive. Just remember to go easy on the watering (overwatering is the #1 cause of ceph death).

Heliamphora
Read the care sheets before proceeding; heli's are more particular about their growing environment than many other CP's.

Good luck

I think you didn't read my post correctly
I already have
VFT's
Aliciae
Capensis
Madagascariensis
scorpioides
anglica
Flava
Purpurea
x Ventrata
Cephalotus
Heliamphora (and they are growing like crazy )
...

Rofl

Oops.

I did offer some additional species that are easy growers as well.

I'll just be over here facing the corner if anyone needs me...

Haha , I've seen it, I might get a Leucophylla

Well, I know you said you want something that is not challenging, but I have become rather obsessed with Darlingtonia Californica (Cobra Lily) lately. I am fairly certain that these can be challenging to grow. I recently bought seed from FTS, and am going to try them out. They grow naturally in the northwest part of the country (northern Cali/southern Oregon). I have heard that it is very difficult to grow them in the southeast, so it depends on where you live.

Check them out:

• http://www.flytrapcare.com/phpBB3/seeds ... t9014.html
• http://www.carnivorousplants.org/howto/ ... gtonia.php
• http://www.cobraplant.com/index.php?mai ... page&id=77
• http://www.botany.org/carnivorous_plant ... gtonia.php

@ Starchy
I think that you have also misread my original post it said "I'm up to a challenge ."
But thanks for the suggestion, I was already thinking about a Darlingtonia