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  1. Classic Darwin's Sundew makes a Gordian Knot
  2. Igor

    My garden

    I like it very much. I think about something of the same kind, but most of my garden plants (ingluding some trees) are not in pots, but in ground, so having a bit larger garden I can't venture to start. You post is an impact for me to start... maybe next year? :)
  3. Your Darlingtonia stays in the same tray with Helliamphora?
  4. It differs. You have continental climate - hot summers, cold winters whith few snow and less humidity. It's more abrupt. Right? http://meteoinfo.ru/KrasnoyarskClimat It's just a politeness - we are guests here and must respect other members. I'm sure you were in situation when someone near speaks another language :)
  5. I can imagine climate in Krasnoyarsk (I never was there), so I can estimate what you did :)
  6. Nice photos! One strange favour: can you make a bigger crop of soil it grows in? Thanks in advance!
  7. It's a well known effect. Search for "adiabatic cooling system" or "ejector refrigerating plant" for example in Google
  8. This is graphic-illustration to Daivion's wordy-description.
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    Grow Lights

    I believe that the main things are illumination (lux) and spectrum. Both are output paramerts (as an example, watts are electric energy input, so they includes energy spent for heating, lighting to wrong directions). Figures like '6500K' it's only for human eyes, plants 'feel' light another way.
  10. I've never seen original :) and it was just an example. I'd say that colours in my "corrected" picture are not "untrue", but they are unreal. You are absolutely right. Colours can be corrected to. Almost all digital cameras make mistakes in colours, and all of them have additional programs to correct it. My Olympus is always wrong about red, Canon is better, but not in all cases. There is a separate thread about cameras, so I think that it's an off-topic here.
  11. May be all you need is to play with contrast/gamma settings? Like this:
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    Useless info

    Why it became bigger? I tried to trigger the smaller one but they are not working (I'm bigger than a fly ). Yes, I understand that it's silly, but I'm doing it for science . I think it's because they have wrong form: they have wrong ratio between thickness and linear size of fold - they work as a metal trap, or like a tin hair-pin - press on it slightly to help pass the "dead point" and it will move strongly and swift...
  13. D. rotundifolia grows beyond the polar circle :)
  14. Igor

    Useless info

    The question is When VFT can start catch prey? Here is an answer... Trap size is 2,5mm. Frankly speaking, I helped it a bit because it closes several times slower than a mature one and flies run to fast (I stopped it with a toothpick). If it was a bug, I think it could catch it itself. May be I should post this photo into Largest VFT Trap Competition. Photo made keeping within the rules of that competition. :)
  15. When the sun is down, it changes not only brightness, but also a spectral distribution. Light at this time has more red. Can we mock this?
  16. Giles Regarding Dactylorhiza fuchsii - my folder, where photos are stored, has both names. Thanks for removing my doubts (: . And thanks for advices where to search for CP. I found Platanthera at meadow (may be water-medow) rather far from the bog. I thought about Pinguicula, but now this place looks too dry for it.
  17. Usually they notice you earlier than you and run away. But anyway there is a chance that they are angry...
  18. Last weekend I took a walk across the forest and bogs near my summer house. Sorry, I can’t please your eyes with CP in habitat, but I met some rather rare native orchids, that could be interesting (I know that there are some orchid-growers at this forum). Dactylorhiza fuchsii I like this plant very much. As much as I sorry that all attempts to grow it in gardens are unsuccessful. (Of cause, I don’t mean my attempts, all I took are its photos :) ) Platanthera bifolia This plant is disappearing now. I believe that it’s a temptation to pick up a bunch of such flowers – they look small and simply, but they have a very strong odour. It was its luck that it smells only at night, and it was just a morning. So it still grows there :) And two photos of the place where I hoped to find sundews. It is typical habitat, I think, or am I wrong? This is a sphagnum/grass bog. (Tracks belong to wild boar or elk. First I thought that it’s a bear because all ant hills around was scattered) And all the sundews neighbors are here. In winter I’m going to enjoy bilberry jam. PS. I hope you can understand my strange English.
  19. Last week there was a thread about best hunter...
  20. Igor

    vft no name

    King George III
  21. Igor

    Grow Dionaea from Seed

    In this case our results differs. :) My Cephalotus leaf pullings feel better if they embedded in the same pot where parent plant grows. Irrelative of soil type.
  22. Igor

    Grow Dionaea from Seed

    I'm doing it now because of the same reason. Seedling on peat mix seems to me weaker then on sphagnum. (I compare not only dionaea, but also sarracenia)
  23. I envy you... All my work trips a so dense - I can't find time even to have a snack... Great report, thanks.
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