- Sat Jul 17, 2021 3:12 am
#385062
I barely found any actual reviews of this shop anywhere even though it's been around forever so I'll throw out a quick review for anyone who's in my proverbial shoes in the future. The prices are hard to beat of course and he unexpectedly threw in a few spares for some cheaper ones I ordered just 1 of, but the tracyi I ordered was apparently overlooked and missing, the binatas were in exceptionally bad shape (no roots and extremely leggy so I'll be very surprised if any survive), and the pings seem to be having an unexpectedly hard time acclimating to outdoors (or even the couple I put on my indoor rack for insurance for that matter) even in almost full shade and with a very high water level. Additionally, the capillaris were all entirely green as opposed to the one I got from Meadowview which arrived mostly red (as well as the planifolia which I expected to have at least some red), so unless I got some surprise Emerald's Envy then I suspect some or most of these plants may be grown indoors under insufficient lighting. Also interestingly enough, the rosea had 2 older colorful pitchers but the newer ones were pure green. In spite of the hiccups though, Bruce was a pleasure to deal with and is obviously a stand up guy: quick to reply, tossing in the few extras, and offering to throw a few tracyi in my next order to make up for the missing one. In any event though, I expect I'll have a few likely unavoidable losses from this batch, but at least the sarrs seem to be in solid condition and I wouldn't be concerned about ordering them at least if I was an brand new grower.