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Hi Terry and welcome to the forums. Steve

They do not need terrariums nor high humidity, I would take the lids off to increase ventilaton thereby reducing mould and take the cover off the Capensis pots entirely. Also after 3 years or so I would repot to reinvigourate the medium, that will help the plants, and at the same time loose the terrarium. Put them outside if you have the opportunity to give them all more light. Cheers Steve

Hi Petertrap and welcome!!

A picture would be very useful. Cheers steve

Generally hybrids exhibit the best vigour, although which one is best there are simply so many that I haven't grown I cant tell you. I have many different moorei's that are very vigorous, both named and home made mongrels. Cheers Steve

Hi Hypno and welcome back!

Hi Vince and welcome. Hope you've got some spare space you're going to need it these plants get very addictive. Cheers Steve

Hi Jon and welcome back to the hobby and to the forums. Cheers Steve

Hi Alexandre and welcome to the forums Cheers Steve

Try as I might, I cannot get coir to replicate the results I get from peat for carnivorous plants, no matter what I mix it with.

In answer to your question, some firm of evaporative cooler would be your most economic solution, however it will be massive compared to your set up.

I grow a fair few outdoors in bogs and many tall ones do indeed blow over in high winds and rain. Over the years I have tried a few methods but never come up with anything better than a stake and stiff wire. As Ada say, unless you have the time and can be creative with how you position it (you can loose a lot of the impact if you have a lot of plants close together and 'hide' the stake in the general morass of pitchers and position the wire about 1/2 to 3/4 of the way up the pitchers) it can detract from the overall display. Having said that flattened pitchers look worse. Cheers Steve

It says in the write up free from artificial additives. Are you thinking of Westland peat? Cheers Steve

Hi Shane and welcome to the forums and absorbing hobby. If you are after information there is plenty here, and if you cant find what you need just ask, someone here will know the answer! Cheers Steve

Hi mark and welcome to the forums. Cheers Steve

H Dan nice to see you back. Welcoome Cheers Steve

What you have there is mostly carpet and star moss rather than sphagnum, so you should be fine, the caret moss wont grow vigorously enough to cause the seedlings any problems and the wretched star moss can be pulled out in single strands as it grows if needed. Cheers Steve

Hi Flytrap_canada and nice to see you back after a long time. Look forward to the sharing of the knowledge! Cheers Steve

Not a problem being cool enough, a lot depends on what containers your plants are in as to whether they need protection. Beware frequent freeze/thaw cycles and desiccant winds. High mass containers/medium are obviously better than small pots. Cheers Steve

You can, but even big south facing windows cut down the light quite a bit so you wont get full coloured specimen plants. They really are better outside, and they can get dormancy better out there too. Cheers Steve

Welcome to you both, Im sure you will find the forums informative and if you need to know anything, then there enough specialists available here to answer any questions or problems you may have. Cheers Steve

Hi AleCrb and welcome - good luck with your cephalotus Cheers Steve

That looks great, will fill out well and look a treat next year - Love the Smithy's work Cheers Steve

I too am Sarracenia biased and grow mine outdoors in bogs all year round, probably the best value Sarracenia outdoors (although not my favourite) is 'Dixie Lace' as it goes through the winters well, keeping its pitchers without damage for normally two years or more, grows into a good looking clump readily, is good to look at both close up and from a distance, needs little maintenance and looking good through winter when everything else is brown and toppled over, always makes you warm to a plant. Otherwise for satisfaction, you have to go with the 'lookers' big mooreis, red flavas, leucophylla 'alba' or oreophila with deeply coloured throats and lips, or ornatas, I could go on - well they are all beautiful otherwise we wouldn't grow them, would we? Cheers Steve