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Post by riveraxvx on May 20, 2017 11:34:46 GMT -5
new user, found this place via the FTS forums and figured hey I'm in the Carolina's might as well check it out!
new to Carnivorous Plants after our daughter for doing well on her report card and being asked what she wanted said a carnivorous plant! (she just turned six) so here we are about a month later and now she has 9 VFT! (4xB52's, 2xPinnacle, 3x typical) a small collection to get us started been reading up more on different plants we are interested I'd join here and read up on some threads here too! think our next purchase will be a nice lil Nep or two!
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Post by Voodoo Child on Sept 3, 2017 19:54:12 GMT -5
Hello, and welcome! It sounds like you're just getting started with cp's. The Nepenthes species are nice, but they *are* tropical. You'll have to keep them warm in the winter, and keep the humidity up, too. In the house, that can be tough to accomplish because the heater keeps sucking the moisture out of the air. If it's too dry, the new pitcher tendrils will shrivel up.
I recommend getting something that's hardy. The native pitcher plants are very easy to keep: give them lots of sunshine, keep them damp-to-soggy with rainwater, and leave them outdoors all year (in the winter, against the southern wall of a brick-sided house is nice to take the edge off the cold). Sarracenia purpurea, S. flava, or S. rubra would be good choices. My mother-in-law kept S. rosea (a Gulf-coast species) and Dixie Lace (a hybrid) in 14" urn pots on her front porch in Asheboro; the ice and snow never fazed the plants.
You could also try some of the temperate sundews. I grow threadleaf sundews (Drosera filiformis var filiformis) outdoors pretty much all year. It's native to the east coast of the U.S., from North Carolina up to Maine. I give mine the same care as my Venus flytraps, and they're thriving. This spring, I divided my big pot and donated 30 plants to the Stanley Rehder Carnivorous Plant Garden in Wilmington. Drosera intermedia is another sundew that's very hardy and easy to grow.
If you're ever in Raleigh on the weekends, check out Growin' Green Nurseries booth at the State Farmers Market. They usually have a nice selection of carnivorous plants for sale at decent prices.
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