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  1. Not too shabby, Cedric! You have some great plants.
  2. Big business!!! I note there is no mislabelling yet (because there are no labels! ).
  3. They look great, Matt - especially that cyclosecta photo.
  4. Go on, have a go at crossing them... all you need is a small paintbrush and know where to stick it! The pollen is pretty obvious and the 5 stigmata are near the tips of the upside down umbrella pistil (little protrusions sticking inwards). Remove the petals if they get in the way. Lightly brush the pollen onto each stigma every couple of days or so until the petals drop. If the job is good then you should get ripe seed in Autumn.
  5. Bad luck, Rachel. It sounds like you did exactly the right thing with the seeds. Unfortunately it is rare that 'shop bought' seed is ever fruitful. In Autumn, post a request on here for some seeds or try one of the carnivorous plant dedicated nursery businesses (see homepage of this site).
  6. Any old free draining crap for me. It usually ends up being bits of whatever I have lying around for the fussier plants in my collection, plus a load of vermiculite mostly because I bought too much in bulk. As already mentioned by many, I also chuck in some nutrient added compost, too e.g. multipurpose, John Innes etc. Think about where they naturally grow. Some grow on shear rock faces where they will collect wind blown organic detritus (moss, leaves) while others are epiphytic on moss and some in leaf mould. For habitat photos, checkout Fernando's (and others) excellent adventures at http://www.pinguicula.org/pages/pages_prin...%20field%20trip I think it highly likely that the availability of nutrients will effect flowering and division habit as well as growth, as with most plants. Most critical is getting water/humidity and temperature/sun correct related to season. (Humidity will usually be greater for organic media watered by tray method.)
  7. Another reason to see (at least photos) before you buy for Sarracenia.
  8. Nicely photo documented.
  9. Ray is endomorphically equipped for survival! If he was an ectomorph he would have to stop to eat every 2 hours and so wouldn't have much time to carve things.
  10. Also note that many spam/malicious emails do not come from the indicated sending email address.
  11. Bumping from a moderator.... whatever next?! Oops, just bumped it myself. P.S. I agree!
  12. Bill, might just be a corrupt sector from a power down or some such. I still sometimes use the old DOS command chkdsk /f for non system drives but you can't use /f to fix the drive your Windows OS is running off (I think). You seem to be about as lucky with computers as my Pa!
  13. Do you think it moth? Any idea what species it was? Where micros are concerned I think I have only ever found Tortrix sp. on my Sarras.
  14. Hope so.... but I do so fear the use of the marketing word, 'synergistic'!
  15. Outside - it may be hard to find anything that will do well without much Sun but you could try temperate Pinguicula and, maybe, Darlingtonia. Inside - some Mexican Pinguicula should do ok (e.g. P. 'Tina') - humidity in a bathroom would help these with a splash of Sun in the morning from an East facing window. Can't comment on Neps, Ceph as I don't grow them.
  16. What a great idea! Andy, I don't believe you - you have been on here too long for that. Isn't Spring great!
  17. Sell the TV and save over £100 per year on the licence. Spent it on your plants, instead. If you feel that you must, listen to 3-5 mins of news on the radio each day; if you find anything of interest then look it up on the internet. You can save trees by avoiding newspapers, too, unless you have time to read such comics.
  18. Yes, it just means that it has been washed a certain amount to rid it of salt. It should be fine for Pings if it is a reputable brand.
  19. Hi Matt, for foliage see http://www.cpukforum.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=34944 - looks just as you say - rosette size is about 8cm diameter. I am lucky enough to have a tropical fish shop nearby so if I am passing I pop in to see if they have any suitable bits of holey Tufa I can use as Ping rocks. The rock in the photo has internal channels. I stuff strands of sphagnum into these channels and then sit it in a saucer with the sphagnum poking out the bottom; they act as a wick. I put a little bit of organic media into the natural depressions where the channels come out and pop the plants on.
  20. Lovely plants and perfect colouration - you must have the lighting just right! Nice photos, too. Great condition - congrats. Oh, except..... have you noticed those huge orange spots on some of your pings??!!
  21. Mayhem in the greenhouse: A bit grey today but wanted to take some stock photos of these two flowers while I have the chance: P. gigantea x esseriana courtesy of Andy Smith: P. "Zarniwoop" x garden centre false 'Weser':
  22. Can't help you much but a couple of ideas... I would get a hand lens on it to have a close look. The media does not matter with some pests - they are there to suck on the plant! Could it just be bits of old dead leaf (or bits of trapped compost) being pushed up and out by the new foliage? Are the speckles actually part of the leaf (i.e. leaf damage) or are they particles on the leaf - do they brush off?
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