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Rich Z's Blatherings Since Connie and I have retired the SerpenCo business, topics here will focus on topics of a more personal and general nature. |
Carnivorous plants....
07-24-2014, 11:38 PM
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Those are just so neat. I had a little potted venus fly trap that was pretty fun. I don't think I could have planted it outdoors in Arizona, though. I liked feeding it bugs from outside.
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08-09-2014, 09:23 PM
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08-09-2014, 10:25 PM
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Fascinating. The seeds on the plants looked like caviar.
Rich, with racks and tubs. Growing little ones into bigger ones. I feel deja vu.....
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08-09-2014, 11:34 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by vetusvates
Fascinating. The seeds on the plants looked like caviar.
Rich, with racks and tubs. Growing little ones into bigger ones. I feel deja vu.....
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Nah... It would take a huge investment for a building to hold enough of these to be able to sell enough of them to make any profit. Then I would need to hire people to help out. Then suddenly, next thing I know, where did my retirement go? I'm WORKING again!
Not sure what I'm going to do with these things when i get overrun with them. I'm not even sure I'll harvest the seeds next year. Perhaps I should get a kiddie's pool and sink it into the ground and make a larger bog for these things. Too bad we don't have a natural bog area anywhere on our property. We do have a stream, but it's heavily wooded and not likely suitable for insectivorous plants.
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08-10-2014, 01:33 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Rich Z
Perhaps I should get a kiddie's pool and sink it into the ground and make a larger bog for these things. Too bad we don't have a natural bog area anywhere on our property. We do have a stream, but it's heavily wooded and not likely suitable for insectivorous plants.
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Now that would be super cool.
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09-03-2014, 05:32 PM
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09-03-2014, 05:43 PM
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09-03-2014, 05:55 PM
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which of your plants like mosquitos. I have a spot with so many of these little biters, you can't go outside the door without getting bitten. I love these types of plants, and have a sunroom with a glass ceiling , so even a plant that loves sun for the latter half of the day will be happy here. I grow my fig trees in this room, any suggestions.
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09-03-2014, 06:31 PM
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None of them actually "like" anything. They will take whatever they can get, whether actively attracted to them, or simply by accident when an insect makes a mistake by landing at the wrong place.
In the case of the fly traps, I don't think mosquitoes will be standard fare for them as there is nothing in the traps to attract skeeters as far as I know. I really think that they feed mostly on ants, as the design of the leaves leading to the traps is a natural path for ants to make. Recently I had a problem with ants deciding to build a nest right among some smaller flytraps I had growing. I was fretting about how to get rid of the ants without damaging the plants when a couple of days later apparently all the ants vanished. All of the traps were close, so I presume that the fly traps themselves took care of that problem. Poor planning on the part of the ants, I think.
Anyway, I think the best bet would be sundews as far as mosquitoes are concerned, especially the threaded kind, since mosquitoes would be likely to alight on the upright stems coated with the sticky globs that will entrap them. But honestly, with the moist soils needed to make sundews happy, you might just be creating even more of a problem by providing areas conducive for mosquitoes to breed. I have some sundews set up in individual containers outside that sit in pans of water and we have to constantly check on those pans to dump them when we see mosquito larvae in them. Any way to block the mosquitoes from reaching the water to lay eggs would likely be even more of a pain in the butt than just dumping the water when needed.
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09-03-2014, 09:32 PM
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Great updates.
I want a bog...
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