johnnyfrye
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A few snapshots from today.
P. Aphrodite
U. Sandersonii
A confused D. Glabripes
Enjoy!
-Johnny
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Wow.. just fantastic. I'm not a big Nepenthes grower but I sure do know this is my absolute favorite species of nep. Very nice pictures.
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Definitely a good one. The Drosophylum that Michael brought was sweet.
Nice pictures, too!
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Wow! The Zonaria is beautiful. Very cool pics.
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No, this one was from Cook's, they were having an 'Unknown Fork-Leaved' Special. The one you gave me is dormant(ish) right now, and he's MUCH bigger.
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This unknown form of D. Binata has been growing happily in my tropical terrarium for a few years now, with outside winter breaks for dormancy.
When I couldn't find a black background after looking for a while, I decided to try using my cat, which was the blackest thing around I could find. It didn't work out so well...
But I did eventually find a few pieces of paper. So here are the rest of the pics:
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Fantastic! The platypoda shots and close-up of the glands are are my favorite. Sweet.
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That is a sweet Roridula. Nice.
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Very nice plant! The last picture is especially nice.
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Wow. Those are very cool, especially the one with a mite inside.
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Thanks guys! But unfortunately, I cannot grow plants outside. My house is surrounded by trees and connected to another house on the north side. There isn't a place outside that gets more than a couple (1-2) hours of sunlight, and believe me (I've tried) Drosera don't do well outside my house.
It sounds like my best option would be to make a special terrarium specifically designed for tuberous sundews, with a cooler and a short photoperiod. But that might be another project... for now my thirst for Erythrorhiza has been quenched. I think I'll just stick with tropicals for a while.
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Hi all,
I've always wanted very very much to own a D. Erythrorhiza, and now that California Carnivores is having their dormant tuber sale, this is my chance. However, I'm not sure I'll be able to take care of it for one reason: temperature.
My CPs are all grown in one room. This room has no heat, and since I live in California it stays about room about temperature nearly year round. All of the plants are in terrariums (10-gallon tanks with plenty of light and a normal seasonal photoperiod) around the room, and all of those are a little bit above room temperature inside. Pretty much a standard tropical Drosera enviroment, and I've got lots of experience growing tropical CPs.
If I were to order a tuber, once it breaks dormancy it would have to grow with my other plants in this slightly-above-room-temperature enviroment.
My question is; is this possible, or will it die? Is there a solution? If there isn't a solution, might it work with Macrophylla or another rosetted species?
Thanks,
-Johnny
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P. 'John Rizzi'
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I just use white posterboard, and tape it to the sides and back of the tanks. I used to use foil, but frankly it looked ugly.
I'm no expert but it would be my best guess that foil absorbs less light. If you don't care how the back of the tank looks and just want as much light as possible, I'd go for the foil. But white posterboard seems to work for me just fine too.
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Tonyc, I think you're right. I Google-imaged it and this is what I came up with. It looks pretty much like what I have.
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I have in fact just repotted them. I plan to give some of the plants away and keep the hamiltoniis, slackiis, and aliciaes (especially the clumps) for myself. I of course kept the roots in their own clumps of peat, and of course despite all efforts fragments of peat got onto the some of the plant's leaves. But I'm glad I did it.
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Holy frigging carpet grains, batman! That's awesome! This is my favorite Nep I've ever seen in my life!
Lucky.
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When I was still a CP beginner, I thought it might be cool to have a giant pot with tons of Drosera in it. However, I was still a beginner, and when I transferred all the plants to the pot, I used pure peat. No sand, perlite, or anything else, just peat. The sundews I've planted there have never done very well, and lately they've been declining even more. Some sort of Genlisea or Utric has sprung up as ground cover, but it never flowers. Many of the sundews in there have made offshoots from the roots. I really want to re-pot them to their own individual pots with a much better peat:sand mix, but I'm not sure if I should yet, or if it would kill the plants. Anyone have any opinions?
-Johnny
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Somebody else told it was an Orbea Ssp., and I looked those up too. It seems like everything is a close match, I'll have to wait until it flowers!
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Fantastic! Beautiful plants!
I love the first photo. I'm a plant man, not a flower man, myself.
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An Orbea ssp.? I don't know wich one...just let it flower and them look for it....just don't smell the flower!
Why not? Is it poisonous or something?
Because that would be schweet.
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@Carlos: Actually, it's P. "John Rizzi", which I think is a form of Moranensis.
@Daniel: I have no idea. I made a thread about it here.
And thanks all!
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Recently I decided to make another terrarium setup because I was severely running out of room in my others. The whole thing only cost about $50 USD, and the four 40W bulbs give the plants inside plenty of light. It's not completely full yet, but it definitely will be after the next few LACPS meetings.
Here are a few macros of the Drosera inside:
-Johnny
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I got this at a garage sale a while back, and it's been growing in the gap between two of my terrariums since then and seems to like it. It feels sort of like a succulent, and likes water every week or so. Also, if you break off a leaf, this very bad-smelling white stuff oozes out.
I'm just curious to learn what this is; it's a pretty cool plant.
Thanks,
-Johnny
Something from my kitchen
in Carnivorous Plants in Cultivation
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A fantastic Capillaris! And those pings are excellent! Very nice.