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Karsty

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  1. Hi FruitPolo,

    Are they really S. flava? They don't look like it to me.

    In the spring, I would experiment with some of them by spraying weak fertiliser over them and see how they react. Or if I could provide bright light and warmth all through winter, I would try it starting from now.

    These are just educated guesses at how to improve them:biggrin:

    Karsty.

  2. Phew, after finding my magnifying glass to read some of these comments :lol:....

    If any of you live within driving distance of St. Albans, Herts, you just Have to go to Aylett Nurseries. Their house plant area rival Kew Gardens for incredibleness, and to top it, their customer service is outstanding.

    Nearby is Burston Garden Centre, which has been quite good lately for house plants.

  3. I think the ants are chewing your sundew leaves to cause the damage. They apparently to not eject any formic acid.

    This particular queen ant escaped from me this year. Next year I will install cctv.

    Weirdly, all those I put into D. m. 'Big Mouth' were fully digested......

  4. Ali - Do you really think 10 weeks was not enough time to give the Ambyselius time to do their job?

    You will see that I carried out a certain amount of destruction with regard to the infested plants.

    So would it be reliable to say that after hatching these mites will not produce eggs within 2 weeks? Even in the most favourable conditions?

    Honestly, I'd rather poison myself slightly then recover than go through all of that trouble with the oil-based pesticide (would not SB Plant Invigorator do the same job?). Besides, I don't have a binocular microscope - not yet anyway! But I would not use any dangerous pesticides where they might harm bees.

    You have my admiration for having both the time, and the patience, to carry out those procedures! The truth is, I would have the patience if I had the time and the right equipment.

    There's not much info out there about Brevipalpus, but I stumbled upon this video, in case it is of assistance to anyone -

    MissOrchidGirl - How to make and apply your own DIY insecticide for Orchids - Complete, step by step guide

  5. One spray with Provado should be more than enough to finish off an attack of aphids as it's systemic. You shouldn't need to spray anything else now, unless you get aphids there who have resistance. That's the advantage of SBPI, it's not a poison so there's never any danger of resistance developing.

    If you want to switch over to SBPI once the Provado has worn off, just think, in warm conditions aphids give birth once an hour and are born pregnant. So one may give birth just after you've sprayed, and this offspring survives and continues the infestation. Or one flies in and starts a new infestation. So you may find you have to sometimes spray several times in one day to polish them off. If there's absolutely no danger of bees, ladybirds, etc getting near the plants, I would also probably use something pretty potent. I did recently to get rid of some insidious Brevipalpus mites.

  6. On 2/23/2018 at 10:39 PM, Beenut said:

    Sorry for the long time to reply. I can’t say what species my nephenthes is honestly. I got it from pikes and the only information that was given was “nepenthes.” The temp has been well above the 50s both day and night. It is now getting about 6-8 hours of direct sun a day and it’s only been about for 2 days now. The leaves are just worrying me because they aren’t looking very green like a tropical plant as they have always seemed in the past.

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     The photo is a bit blurry, but it looks like a bit of leaf-scorch, and also the younger leaves developing the red protective pigment in response to high light levels. As they mature they become green. 

    What are your day and night temperatures in Celcius/Centigrade?

  7. 26 minutes ago, Paul.m said:

    Mine to , new leaf every 2 to 3 weeks but no pitchers had lovely pitchers when i got it , I keep it at right humidity and temp and it has plenty to hang from ,maybe i pamper it to much . 

    There's one method that says starving Nepenthes forces them to make pitchers from the growing need for nutrients. And one grower thinks Ventrata produces pitchers if it has something to cling to to grow upwards........?

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