Argo88

You said the true another time... but I help my luck: I grow a single species of Mexican pinguicula: pinguicula gigantea good night, my friend!! I hope in future to see some photos of your other pinguiculas

My bigger pinguiculas gigantea catch them... Gaz says the true, but pinguicula gigantea have the peculiarity of both sides of the leaves (upper and down) with glue... young giganteas, anywhere, don’t catch them;-) In these pictures you can see a recently divided plantlet that is big enough to catch a winged aphid with the down page of the leaf;-)

Hi Gaz! Your gigantea is beautiful and very healty... now it only need time to becomes bigger and bigger;-) Thanks a lot! I’m sure that your the rest of season will grow well for you! In my conditions p. giganteas start blooming at the end of winter and to divide themselves just after the first flower... but as you have said, we are growing this plants in very different conditions, and I’m not sure my way is the best: my plants could be only older than your;-) have a nice day!!!

Hi Gaz! at the beginning of spring I catch bugs for them... but now they hunts a lot alone!! When they are big they catch a lot of preys... and they have a very big tray... it helps them increasing humidity and attracting mosquitos.. when they were little I fertilized them, but I don’t make it from years... when the old leaves died, if fertilized they make a lor of algae in substrate. I water them with tap water that stays for two days in a tray before using that... I think they appreciate calcareous water ;-)

Pure river sand... but they do well in pure volcanic lava too... only I don’t use it because I haven’t a greenhouse and here there is a lot of strong wind... volcanic lava is too light and the pots fall dawn

Hi! I grow drosera roseana and drosera pulchella without greenhouse and cover;-) there are also quite easy hibryds of pigmy sundews... better if you wait 2 months: in autumn starts gemmae time;-)

Hi! They grow in a North/east facing windowswill... they have a lot of light but never direct sunlight;-)

So they will divide next year!!!;-) yes, they are easy to propagate by leaf pulling, but from division they often make the flower the next spring;-)

Hi Gaz! I’m fine, thanks! p. gigantea is a little slow growing, but it grows;-) Two days ago I divided mine... I post a photo for you... on the left you can see on the top the purple flower and under it the bigger one that is white flower... on the right you can see the divisions, they are rooting just now...

Hi Gaz!!! How are you? My pinguiculas are making bigger leaves, and yours?;-)

As said from Alexis, genetically differences... a lot of people think that typical dionaea muscipula are all obtained from the same plant and mass reproduced... but I’ve seen a video in wich the author explain, for example, that the typical Venus fly traps from a well known Dutch nursery are all different individuals grown from seeds;-)

Hi! I’ve never grown a petiolaris complex sundew.. but I can tell you that I’ve seen in garden centers drosera paradoxa at about € 5...it could be paradoxa... in my sundews that red coloration is due to too much direct sunlight ... I think you have bought the plant and put immediately it in direct sunlight... better do it gradually... at the moment you could shadow a little it with a scottex paper;-) good luck

Hi Gaz!! My giganteas are still doing well, thank you!!;-) I love this plant: carnivorous all year round, catch preys with both faces of the leaves and, as you has said, beautiful flower!! In my experience, first time they flower very often make a single flower... next year it could be more (this year here it is very rainy, plants have wake-up in May/June and a p. gigantea that had flowered for the second year has made a single flower... I think it is due to the weather of this year)... in the next weeks look at your plant: usually after the flower stalk pinguicula gigantea divides itself... if you left the new plantlet with the mother or divide it only when it has a well formed roots system it can flower next year;-)

Hi!! It seems me sunburn... if the plant is like in the first picture, it will survive... I think that growlight wit red and blue lights may be a little stronger for pinguiculas... another thing... I don’t understand well... the sphagnum is in the lower part of the pot and you put on it lava rock and peat? If yes, pay attention that sphagnum doesn’t rot... it happen me with live sphagnum under sand;-)

Hi Gaz!! Thanks a lot for sharing, I’m very happy than you (and everybody) write here your own experience!!! Your plant has a beautiful flower: very nice colour. Don’t worry, in my growing conditions the biggest leaves are produced in September/October, just before going in dormancy;-) This year it will be around 22/23 cm or more