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Well, they had a slow start this year, due to repotting, but they finally seem to be coming along okay now.

Leo, you are AMAZING!
We all want our plants to look like yours. So cool!


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HuxTraps wrote:Leo, you are AMAZING!
We all want our plants to look like yours. So cool!

There you go... Makin' my head swell again! LOL!

Actually, I haven't had to do hardly *anything* with these plants all summer. It's been raining so often, I've only had to water them a few times and I haven't even needed to collect any more rainwater all summer. I usually feed them some bugs once in a while too, but they've been catching so many on their own, I figured I didn't need to do that either. Some of the easiest plants I've ever grown -- once you know all the tricks, that is!

Your plants do look amazing Leo! Good job

Constant rain keeps the plants clean and helps them look amazing (not discrediting what you have done though!)
Whenever it rains here (Southern California) I always take pictures because they look so good.

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always love seeing photos of your collection there!

beautiful, I would end up out there taking photos daily haha

This one's for you, cjpflaumer...

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pyC7WnvLT4[/youtube]

Leo756 wrote:

HuxTraps wrote:Leo, you are AMAZING!
We all want our plants to look like yours. So cool!

There you go... Makin' my head swell again! LOL!

Actually, I haven't had to do hardly *anything* with these plants all summer. It's been raining so often, I've only had to water them a few times and I haven't even needed to collect any more rainwater all summer. I usually feed them some bugs once in a while too, but they've been catching so many on their own, I figured I didn't need to do that either. Some of the easiest plants I've ever grown -- once you know all the tricks, that is!

What about trimming and maintenance? When do you cut off your dying traps?

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Leo756 wrote:This one's for you, cjpflaumer...

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pyC7WnvLT4[/youtube]

Hahaha good one

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Beautiful plants Leo! Well done sir!

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uusa2000 wrote:What about trimming and maintenance? When do you cut off your dying traps?

Usually just in the fall after I bring them indoors for dormancy, then again in the spring when I take them back outside. I'm sure there are probably some dead leaves hidden in underneath there, but I doubt the plants would be growing like this if it was harmful. (No one goes around cutting off the dead leaves where they grow in the wild.) I only do it when they start dying back for the winter and look so shabby, or to clear away whatever has died over the winter. Going overboard with trimming too often during the active growth season usually just winds up triggering a bunch of traps to close and wastes a bunch of precious energy.

Amazing plants! What cultivars are those btw? They look like Low Giants or Big Mouths?

idog24 wrote:Amazing plants! What cultivars are those btw? They look like Low Giants or Big Mouths?

Thanks! The lower growing varieties must be either Big Mouth or Fine Tooth x Red. Those are the only ones that ever stay short and compact for me. (And the tags never show up in my pics because I keep them facing away from the sun to keep them from getting faded and I can only take pics from one angle when the door is open on my squirrel cage unless I go to the trouble of moving pots around.) I did have a Low Giant once upon a time, but it never stayed very low for me. It got about as tall as my B52's do, but with smaller traps, so pretty much like a regular ol' typical.

woah!