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  1. If you are seeing no damage from them then I'd not be too worried about having them but I would take measures to remove the adults such as a few Drosera / Pings, the adults make a good size meal for a seedling. They tend to be more of a problem for freshly emerged seedlings and new roots as they are tender enough to be eaten and root damage can be hard to spot. I don't know how much of a problem they may be to over wintering vft.
  2. If they look like this then they are indeed fungus gnat larvae.
  3. Thanks guys, as a windowsill grower my year is coming to an end but can't wait to get growing for next year. Paul sounds great and no hurry... I took a look at Chris's nursery and a little envious lol the seeds should give some great variation.
  4. Just wanted to say a big thank you to everyone at CPUK. I have had great fun growing my first carnivorous plants and have taken my little D. capensis from seed to adult plant and now back to seed again. I have done some tissue culture from them as well and thanks to Paul I also have my first location specific plants growing. The help I have had here has been invaluable and so many willing to help (even if many think D. capensis is a weed ) I had all the first time grower panic, why is my plant brown, why is there no dew, what bug is this. and you all came through and helped out where you could. Again big thank you to you all. P.s. Moving on to Dionaea next so brace yourself for a barrage of questions
  5. I've not seen them doing it in the day but then my girlfriend makes me walk the front path before she leaves for work to make sure there are none in the way. Do you have any night flowering plants in your garden?
  6. Sounds like shes been busy... More so in that most orbweavers consume the web each night and re-spin a new one. Even spiders recycle :)
  7. That D. muscipula 'Spider' is amazing are they hard to grow?
  8. Have you thought about a biological control? It saves on having to re-apply stuff to plants and is very safe. Things like phytoseiulus are very good you can get them on amazon at a reasonable price 'here' or there are some on ebay. It is like a fire and forget missile.
  9. Hi there it shocked me when it happened. I think they were about 4 inches at the longest leaf and about 15 leaves to a plant. Until then nothing out of the normal.The leaves formed well and when unfurled became indistinguishable from the others.
  10. Well I got to see one open and I think I see the problem (image below) Sorry about the fuzzy image (blu-tack and lenses again) but I'm 99% sure that this is not what a healthy Drosera petal shape should look like.
  11. WOW! It is the green house that dreams are made of and I love the labels on the pots... is it stick on or can you get printed pots now!!!. I'd love to attend open days but work has me chained to a computer 24/7 Edit: typo
  12. Well it has been fun getting my little Drosera capensis from seed to flower. Planted first set of successful seeds on 2nd October 2013. Germinated on 25th October 2013. First true leaves 5th November 2013. First flower spike seen 28th June 2014. Now between the sowing of the seeds and the flower I had fungal problems, mishap with environmental change and fungus gnats but I have now some very healthy and strong plants. Now thanks to a kind member on the site I have more than enough seeds to fill my house a hundred times over with Drosera. Things I will be trying in the coming months and in the new growing season: Leaf Cuttings. Different types of growing media. A large scale Drosera setup. Wild moss types as surface cover. All in good time but hope to have some on the go very soon.
  13. Do we know just what it is in tap water that does so much harm to the plants? I know to check the TDS but that covers a wide range of elements. I'm guessing that calcium and magnesium cations are not good as they make up "hard water" but are things like the trace amounts of copper from pipes and such part of the problem as well? Edit: as some of you will have guessed I'm thinking about the addition of calcium hydroxide to precipitate out most of the TDS in the tap water.
  14. Big thanks I just got them and no lie there is a huge number in there I'll be snowed under with Drosera lol can't wait for the Bot River ones to get going as will be my first location specific plants. Just be nice to take some of mine full circle.
  15. Well I have got this far with my little Drosera capensis and am more than happy... but none of the flowers want to open. They move along their little conveyer belt of a stalk... reach the top... and... nothing! They remain closed and wake way for the next one. I know they are only open for a short amount of time but unless that time is less than an hour I'd have seen them open. I remain poised with a soft paint brush like a frustrated bee. Any ideas on how to get them to bloom?
  16. After some digging around in the depths of the web do you think there is a chance that it could be a crestate form of D. Capensis?
  17. How common is fasciation in Drosera as I think a slip up with mine has caused some. Some of the leaves ended up with damage because of enviromental change so I'm 70% sure it is not from a virus... fingers crossed. Images are alittle fuzzy sorry about that but the leaves in them are at least twice as wide as the other 'normal' ones. Are these indeed exhamples of Fasciation?
  18. I'm not a grower of pitcher plants but I'd be careful as most droppings are really high in nitrates. I know that nitrates are part of a carnivorous plants goal in taking insects but dung is 'very' high in it to the point it will often burn the leaves and roots of plants.
  19. Mine ended up looking a lot like this but it was because I was moving them outside in the day and in at night so environmental change had done it to them. I'm guessing it is a stress response so need to make it a little more comfortable and should bounce back.
  20. Still going strong after years but planted out by someone I liked the idea of them making a break for it. At least I guess there isn't much chance of them becoming and invasive species.
  21. Looks like someone's VFT has escaped into the wild... Great images and I must really start looking for wild CPs, more so now I know VFT's have made it out and about.
  22. Awww everyone so hard on the little D. capensis. I like to think of it as a plucky little coloniser but then all I have is D. capensis so no problem with it hopping from pot to pot. I may think differently when I have it in other specimen pots lol.
  23. YAY! I had fingers and toes crossed but had been caught out before. Thanks both of you. Now fingers crossed for a good crop of seeds so I can give lots away lol.
  24. It could well be a lacewing egg nice spot.
  25. Looks a lot like a slime mould stalk but is very big. Not sure what that could mean for the plant but I'm sure someone on here will know if it is bad for it or not.
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