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Carnivorous plants....
- Thread starter Rich Z
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Thanks!
I found out what those yellow flowers are. It's a form of terrestrial bladderwort. Which interestingly enough is another type of carnivorous plant. So I'm glad I didn't pull them all out of there thinking they were just some sort of weed trying to take over. Actually, Connie liked them, and I probably would have had a fight on my hands had I said I was going to do that.
I found out what those yellow flowers are. It's a form of terrestrial bladderwort. Which interestingly enough is another type of carnivorous plant. So I'm glad I didn't pull them all out of there thinking they were just some sort of weed trying to take over. Actually, Connie liked them, and I probably would have had a fight on my hands had I said I was going to do that.
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Yeah. I thought they were a bladderwort, but didn't want to speak out of turn in case they weren't. I read the answer on the Fauna thread, the guy also said that they can become weedy.. So you may end up having to pull a few... Bladderworts are pretty sweet...
There is a type of desert carnivorous plant that eats nematodes with the small traps it has underground... It's pretty interesting.
There is a type of desert carnivorous plant that eats nematodes with the small traps it has underground... It's pretty interesting.
I had no idea that bladderworts came in terrestrial varieties. I thought they were all aquatic. Consequently I had no interest in them at all. Heck, having some that would eat nematodes would be pretty handy to have, as nematodes can be a real pest in the garden. But would they survive in the enrichened soil of a typical garden plot?
Yeah, these things are rather interesting. The sundews seem to be very easy to propagate from seed, as I see a bunch of new ones coming up from the seed that got set by the original plants. Evidently you just have to scatter them on the bare moist soil and just leave them be. I just ordered some seed of one of the larger more exotic varieties to see if I have any luck with them. I'm also feeling good enough about how this is going to think about making a much larger bog area to play with. Of course, all it takes is one armadillo deciding to root around in there and a lot could get destroyed. So I might have to put up a small fence around the bogs to keep that from happening. Again. Already happened once last year, and I think I lost some flytraps that time.
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I love the Akai Ryu, I used to have a couple of them, but they I started them inside and haven't perfected the transition process to outdoors yet, and I burned them all... Little did I know that 4 hours of direct sunlight out here equals a full day's worth of sun, according to one of the local nurseries...
Yeah, I did that when I got my original plants. I thought that I had killed them, but they grew back without any issues. They seem to be hardier plants than I thought they would be.
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Mine never came back... Unfortunately... I really liked them.
Honestly, I don't have much interest in the pitcher plants. But the flytraps and sundews really fascinate me. I did have a few pitcher plants, but apparently the soil being too wet for a spell did all but one of them in. There are some small ones coming up next to one of the flytraps that seemed to have survived.
I'm trying my hand with growing some sundews from seeds I recently got, so we'll see how that goes. And looks like the larger flytraps are going to produce flowers this year, so I will try to harvest the seeds and try growing them as well.
The plants all seem to be doing pretty well now that I put more drainage holes into those tubs. And we got a LOT of rain the past few days, but the water level dropped pretty quickly to keep the plants from staying flooded.
The heavy pine pollen we had a little while ago made a mess, though, forming a kind of scum over top the soil. Hopefully the small sundews coming up, apparently from seeds produced last year, can push on through that.
I'm trying my hand with growing some sundews from seeds I recently got, so we'll see how that goes. And looks like the larger flytraps are going to produce flowers this year, so I will try to harvest the seeds and try growing them as well.
The plants all seem to be doing pretty well now that I put more drainage holes into those tubs. And we got a LOT of rain the past few days, but the water level dropped pretty quickly to keep the plants from staying flooded.
The heavy pine pollen we had a little while ago made a mess, though, forming a kind of scum over top the soil. Hopefully the small sundews coming up, apparently from seeds produced last year, can push on through that.