[S. leucophylla 'Tarnok'...]

Fantastic flower Andy!

I can't wait for mine to flower.

Happy Growin'!

[Some pictures from a Dutch collection]

purpurea overview

Little antho free psittacina's germinating

"spider" living up to it's name

Red capensis wich is very colorfull.

Filiformis tracy

Little Drosophyllum seedling

P. grandiflora in my bog

N.spectabilis x ventricosa

Thanks for watching & Happy growing!

[Some pictures from a Dutch collection]

Little Cep seedlings, Adrian thanks for the very viable seeds!

"Brooks Hybrid"

Dionaea 'Bohemian Garnet'

'B52' with a little ant

'Sawtooth'

Little R. dentata

D.x hybrida

Venosa with fat bellies

Seedpods are growing good

Antho free hybrid flava'Suspiction x(rubra jonesiix leuco)

Minor with very curved hood, wild seed.

Seedlings from 2009

Heli growing with my Sarracenia's

Dionaea from seed.

D.alicae, 3 years old

fresh purpurea venosa montana pitchers (MK PV38)

Antho free flava, Telogia FL.

Antho free x catesbaei, altough I think it's x chelsonii

'Cupped trap'

[Some pictures from a Dutch collection]

Here are som pictures from my plants at the moment, I hope you enjoy them.

I only had a major lack fo sunlight, so plants arn't colored that good yet.

Good weather is coming now and I expect much more coloration in them soon.

flava var. ornata, F88 Mike King

flava var. maxima

Darlingtonia californica, Thanks Peter!

purpurea venosa burkii luteola from seed, F2 cross

purpurea venosa burkii luteola from seed, F2 cross too.

purpurea venosa burkii luteola seedlings, with loc.

S. "Tina"

Odd Dionaea from the garden centre, looks a lot like "Coquilage"

S.'Adrian Slack'

S. 'Leah Wilkerson'

Freshly opened Giant pink lip leucophylla (L18 MK)

Rugelii from wild seed, with a nice red edge on the lid.

Antho free leucophylla

Dark leucophylla

Pretty unknown hybrid.

popei x flava "maxima"

Antho free minor from seed. F2 cross with okeefenokeensis.

[A record?]

Simply Stunning!

Nothing else to say.

Happy Growin'

[What to do now?]

Hi,

Earlier this year I received some R. dentata seeds from Silverhill.

It's my first experience with Roridula, so I really don't know how to maintain my little plant.

I know they like it not so wet and they also don't like high humidity, but now both the soil is very wet and the humidity is also around 85%

When do I need to start hardening of my little plant and where can I put it in it's further life?

Here is a picture of my little seedling right now, after 4 burning sessions finaly one out of 5 seeds germinated.

Any help would be greatly apperciated,

Thanks a lot!

[Nepenthes 4 Life]

Amazing!

It looks really nice

[sudden new pitcher death]

I have same problem, but only with small one year old seedlings.

It seems that when there is an ant inside the pitchers they inject the system with their acid and the tissue got badly damaged.

I don't know if that is possible too on bigger plants tough, since the tissue is a lot thicker.

Good luck!

[Hello! Eventually..]

Hey Ronnie,

I hope your collection will grow well!

Welcome on the forum

Happy Growing & All the Best,

Laurens

[who catches who]

Very cool photo Boris, Thanks for sharing!

[S. purpurea "tina"]

Thanks for sharing!

My pitchers are turning out that green as well now, the red blush is almost gone.

They also look a lot more like the sorrow from Adrian now.

[Flava thriving..]

Wow! That must be one big bush of pitchers in a few weeks

Good Luck and Happy Growing!

[Ampullarias]

Penke: Ampullarias can grow basal rosettes without real leaves, in this way you can see fields of these pitchers without any leaves.

Very nice plants! They look fantastic

But what is that thing covered in fungus crawling out of the pitcher on the last picture(based at the bottom of the pitcher)

Thanks for sharing & Happy Growing!

[S. purpurea "tina"]

My first pitcher opened a few days ago:

It's again differend then all my other pitchers on the same plant.

[6 petals on a Sarracenia Flower]

Hi All,

I noticed my S.purpurea ssp. venosa var. montana has 6 petals and the umbrella has 6 stigmas, it also has 7 sepals.

Here it a picture of the rare deformation.

I will add it to my checklist and check if it will do the same next year.

This is the first flower on my seedgrown montana, so I don't know if it is regular for this clone to have 6 petals.

Are there other growers who have noticed this before on their Sarracenias?

It looks not deformed in any way, so I hope this is permanent treat.

Thanks for watching

[Weird Amorphophallus konjak]

I think it needs more fertilizer and light to get the thumb up instead of that finger

Thanks for sharing, great tuber and pictures!

[Icelandic ash cloud]

Hi All,

I was wondering if the big Icelandic ashcloud could harm my plants is some way.

I know the cloud is into higher air layers, but it will come down some way...

and since vulcanic ash is quite full of minerals I was wondering if I should cover my bog and close my greenhouse window for a few days.

Or will the concentration be too low to affect my plants?

I'm living in the very south of The Netherlands.

I don't know much about vulcanic ash, only that it is good to grow normal plants on because it's rich in minerals.

Thanks a lot and Happy Growing!

For people who don't know what I'm talking about: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8621992.stm

[A few (small) nepenthes of my collection]

They look very nice!

I think I need to try some neps too.

Keep on Growing!

[Nepenthes photos.]

That alata is stunning!

Happy Growing,

[Anthocyanin free plant]

The blush is gone now. The place it used to be is now only a bit darker but totally green.

It would be great in you can check your plants Chris. Then we know if my plant is only an exception or something that occures more often.

Thanks and Happy Growing!

[Anthocyanin free plant]

Hi Thomas, Long tome no see! How are you doing?

The plant you have from me is not genetically the same as this plant. But I would be interested in pictures though, since I have only two other antho free venosa clones to compaire it with.

Your plant is also a seedgrown plant that comes from Christian Klein, and your plant is genetically unique, since there where no cuttings taken from it before you got it.

It used to be me SV08C, but I had no more space for it, that's why you got it.

Good to hear your plant will be flowering, I hope you will enjoy it!

[Frangelo pics 2010]

Amazing plants, keep on growing!

I never knew it was possible to cross a D. regia with a D. filiformis

Happy growing!

[Anthocyanin free plant]

Hi Guys,

I know there are plants that look all green but are clearly not antho free. Like S.flava var. maxima, D.capensis 'Alba', the all green Dionaea and some others.

But all these plants are able to make anthocyanins, only they don't make it that much.

But real anthocyanin free plants(only occure in the Sarraceniaceae family(Darlingtonia, Sarracenia and Heliamphora(not found yet))) are geneticly differend.

They just can't make any anthocyanins at all, if they do make them the plant shouldn't be called antho free.

I also googled for other red pigments occuring in plants and found this article on betalain. It's quite interesting.

Where they occur in plants, they sometimes coexist with anthoxanthins (yellow to orange flavonoids), but never occur in plant species with anthocyanins.

So maybe this coloration I'm seeing are not anthocyanins, but is betalain... since my plant is antho free.

The only problem is, the betalain only occures in the order Caryophyllales and Sarracenia's are from the order Ericales.

This is something only research can find out. And I don't think many research was done on anthocyanin free Sarraceniaceae plants.

This all is only a suggestion, since I don't know for sure and I can't prove it.

Thanks a lot and happy growing!

Edit: here is the Wikipedia article I've found my information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betalain

[Anthocyanin free plant]

I was very happy when I saw another flower from my anthocyanin free venosas opened all the way.

But I was quite surprized to find this little red flush on the sepals.

I know it is hard to see, but it defenately is there(at the base of the sepal near the stem). In real life it's a lot clearer than on the picture.

The plant defenately looks antho free and is always grown in full sun.

Does somebody knows if these antho free plants can make some kind of red coloration that's not anthocyanin?

The plant comes from all those antho free venosas Christian Klein has made, so I don't doubt it it's really antho free.

The tissue isn't damaged at all neither, it's still very stiff and absolutely not dead or rotting, though the color suggest that.

It's also nothing that has collected in the peatmix and was then absorbed by the plant, because all my other green venosa's are in the exact same mix(repotted at the same time)and grow in the same tray.

First I was thinking about some sort of iron oxides, but there isn't any iron in my water collecting system, everything is from plastic.

My other anthocyanin free venosa doesn't show me any red or brownish flushes in the sepals, neither does my venosa var. burkii f.luteola flower.

If somebody can give me a clear answer I would be very glad.

Thanks and happy growing!

[S. purpurea "tina"]

My S. "Tina" flower is nearly fully open.

Here is a picture of the tina flower:

And here is a picture of the true S. 'Sorrow' flower.

Thanks Adrian for this clear picture.

I think the plants are not the same, based on the petal coloration.

There is much more red in my "Tina" petals then there is in the 'Sorrow' petals.

If more people have "Tina" of 'Sorrow' flowering please post these pictures.

However there is a difference in the flowers this can also be the effect of growing in differend environments.

For instance how big the temperature differs at night from the day, since anthocyanins(the red pigments) will be formed in larger quantities when this change is big.

Currently my greenhouse is about 30*C during the day and at night it's 5 or 10*C.

Adrian, do you know the day and night temperatures in your greenhouse?

All the Best and happy growing!