From some seeds i threw into a big pot
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You should support a local nursery. not lowes for plants.
There are no nurseries where Iām at that sell carnivorous plants and most Iāve aquired through online nurseries or trades. If theyāre about to be thrown in the trash Iāll try and negotiate to buy them for a few bucks to save them. But yeah, there are some pretty shady ethics regarding flytraps and them being poached from the wild. Most importantly, buy tissue culture or captive bred plants.
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Thatās just not feasible all the time.
Awesome book! Hey any of you have links to good carnivorous plant info please share it! Also any YouTube videos or growers who are knowledgeable and worth watching please share! Amazing plants everyone.
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For some reason I heard this sung in the voice from the original "how the grinch stole Christmas " cartoon 
idk why but it was just awesome. Followed by cacklingā¦damn itās good to be back.
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@420noob I would reccomend buying from any of these 3 companies: California Carnivores, Flytrap Store, and Sarracenia Northwest. I have bought from all of them and have always been beyond impressed. The Savage Garden by Peter DāAmato is a good read if youāre into books. Classic carnivorous plant book, he usually signs it for you too. I have a copy from nearly 25 years ago he personally signed for me.
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Dude! You donāt even know! Lol I used to have a book collection issue before my seed collection issues but after my sport card collecting compulsions 
. Thanks for the info I canāt get over these amazing little beasts! I have only bought a few ft from Lowes or hd basically because I live in B.F.E. so was my exposure. Plus they were so underwatered and sad I couldnāt help myself lol. I want to get into pitcher plants and other carnivores. Iām so fascinated by them problem is from corporate store is they grow to long in those stupid tubes. The stalks have no strength cause the sides of the container hold them up. Iām hoping I can get some healthy strong traps going so I can start clipping the lowers. They are touching wet peat so will start to rot a bit but thank goodness for photosynthesis.
Those are amazing! Hell I was impressed I got one to flower. I hadnāt done very much research. Growing from seed is something that sounds awesome! So they are seed sown but as they grow they seem to multiple kinda like bulbs it seems like.
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Bumping this thread !!
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This pitcher plant needs help of some sort sheās rapidly declining !
Anyone have any experience with this particular āCarnivorous plant ā ?
Looks fine to me ? They donāt like much feed though. About 1/3 strength orchid fertilizer every other watering and higher humidity will keep it going. I used RO water only for em too.
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@Tempus She has yellowed up quite a bit and the pitchers are dying off ā¦I have not fed it yet maybe I should ? I have been using welll water 
Yup, those are the only species I ever fed. The orchid fert wonāt burn either.
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@Tempus Iāll look into it if I can get a little for a reasonable price! What size pot do you think is efficient this is only in a 4x4 pot ?
$40 for the plant id like to keep it alive lol
Iād put in a 6" in peat with a bit of perlite but not much.
Sadly I didnāt see this thread until now.
I have a carnivorous plant. I had a couple more but 1 died and I gave a couple away.
This was from a few years ago. I got them to help combat fungus gnats.
These are called Cape sundews/Drosera capensis
These are much better for eating bugs than Venus fly traps. And they are super Awsome looking with the gooey trichome type glands that eat the bugs.
I have another kind that Iāll get a pic of later
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Anyone wanna trade for some flytrap seeds? Iām about to have a good amount here in a few weeks. Would be cool to give drosera another try, pitcher plant seeds, or other flytraps.
Mine are basically 3-4 varieties of traps all mixed up (no clue which ones anymore)ā¦ I just let 'em hang out in the same pot and cross pollinate.
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