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I'm considering trying my hand at a P. primuliflora but have not grown butterworts before. How wet does their media have to be? And how humid does it have to be as well? The humidity in my area averages 60% outside.

Sounds perfect actually. Just keep the media wet. I could help you out with a few pups if you want.

Sure, I’ll have a couple. How much will it be?

see here http://www.pinguicula.org/A_world_of_Pi ... iflora.htm

Probably the easiest of the North American warm temperates. I grow mine in lfsm using the tray method, keeping the pots in about 1/2" of water. I also top water during the warm months, but stop that during the winter months. Bright light will see them coloring up with purple veins in the leaves. A good first choice for starting with pings, especially if you are not going to do the mexican ones.

jeff wrote:see here http://www.pinguicula.org/A_world_of_Pi ... iflora.htm

Thank you, that article was helpful. Wish that I could actually find them in a gardening store like it suggests.

twitcher wrote:Probably the easiest of the North American warm temperates. I grow mine in lfsm using the tray method, keeping the pots in about 1/2" of water. I also top water during the warm months, but stop that during the winter months. Bright light will see them coloring up with purple veins in the leaves. A good first choice for starting with pings, especially if you are not going to do the mexican ones.

I've been reading some care guides on mexican pinguiculas and I'm also considering buying some to put in the less sunny areas of my garden.

Thanks for the suggestion Dean, but I'm lazy with germinating seeds (and not very good at it for some reason). I think you should be saving those seeds for someone else.

attention P.lusitanica is an annual species sometimes bi or tri annual depending on their growing conditions,like the subtropical species US P.pumila.

for a first test outside in your garden I recommend hybrids of the genus x'Weser 'or X' Tina 'or X' sethos' her that can easily be found in garden centers

also note that in california 'in situ' there is a kind of ping , P.macroceras , who make a hibernaculae in winter and can therefore stay outside all year round

Pinguicula Lutea may be a good one.. It's small and interesting.

jeff wrote:attention P.lusitanica is an annual species sometimes bi or tri annual depending on their growing conditions,like the subtropical species US P.pumila.

for a first test outside in your garden I recommend hybrids of the genus x'Weser 'or X' Tina 'or X' sethos' her that can easily be found in garden centers

also note that in california 'in situ' there is a kind of ping , P.macroceras , who make a hibernaculae in winter and can therefore stay outside all year round

If only I could actually find butterworts in garden centers, I've only seen a dead P. primuliflora before at a Lowe's and that was it.