Carnivorous plants....

Took some pics of the initial carnivorous plants we have. They are still in their original pots, as the tub we set up still needs more rain water to fill it before it will be ready to transplant the plants into it. Getting rain today, so maybe that will be enough. Otherwise will have to dip into the distilled water supply we have.



















The flytrap has been inside for a few months, and really needs to be outside in the sunlight. Just got the sundew a few days ago in the mail, and picked up the pitcher plant from a local nursery yesterday. Got them all just sitting on the porch right now to acclimate them to stronger light before putting them into direct FULL sun.

Got more on order, as I'm getting a variety of samples to play with.

I sure do hope that they find mosquitoes to be tasty.

Thats so cool I love pitcher plants, very fascinating! I had a Venus Fly Trap once, but my little sister suffocated it while I was away on holidays

Beautiful plants, and great job with the pics!

Casey

Just got in a few more plants to play with. Got an assortment of 7 flytraps, but only 2 sundews. Wish I had gotten a few more sundews, especially the thread types. Oh well, I'll see how these all do for me and go from there.

Wow they are gorgeous!

very nice specimens. i need to get me some of those.

rich i have several excess dews if you're interested

Nice collection Rich. I am hoping to add some pitchers and sundews to my collection soon. I plan on building a nice sized bog outside in the near future. The issue will then be getting the necessary distilled water, since rain is rather difficult to come by out here in the desert, and the water from our well is high in sulfur, salts and other solutes.

These plants are like a vegetarians worse nightmare!!!

Originally Posted by codymi

rich i have several excess dews if you're interested

Seriously? Yeah, I think I'm doing better with the sundews than I am with the flytraps. The flytraps don't seem to actually be taking the full sun as well as I was led to believe. I put the new ones out to catch full morning sun and be shaded in the afternoon, but the morning sun burned some of them pretty badly. I've got pics, but haven't gotten them sized to post yet.

The sundews out in my mini-bog seem to be doing just fine in full sun nearly all day long. One of them is getting a lot of red color to it and flowering. I haven't put the two newer ones out there as I was afraid they might get damaged by the sun.

I've got the flytraps sitting on the porch to catch some brief dappled sun in the morning, hoping they will bounce back. Maybe they just need to be better acclimated before tossing them into full sun.

Anyway, yeah, if you have any you wouldn't mind parting with, just let me know what you want for them. Thanks!