After 3 months of waiting for them to be back in stock I got my hands on a baby purple pitcher!!
House plants
Welcome to the Carnivorous Corner, where we cultivate our leafy predators with passion and share tips for a thriving meat-eating flora!
8501 members 1056 posts
After 3 months of waiting for them to be back in stock I got my hands on a baby purple pitcher!!
I just have to share this photo! It looks like they’re laughing or singing 😁
Would I be able to start a carnivorous terrarium without natural light?
My two new babies🌱
Hello! I’m relatively new to carnivorous plants and I’ve got this Sarracenia (Leah Wilkerson)x (Majesty) from CC that has been excelling! I see three new growths that I assume are pitchers coming from the center of it. I noticed a small red sprout coming out of the moss initially I thought it was moss that it was shipped in sprouting but I’m not so sure I went to tug on it and it moved the whole plant! So I’ve left it in place and uncovered it a bit to take the picture. I recovered it immediately. It is potted in LFS and arrived in seemingly peat moss. My question is what is it? Part of the plant or something else? Should I pull it out or leave it be?
Just got one of my dream plants! Any tips are very much appreciated! Thank you! 🌱🐜🪴
I really need some help here. This will be my second picture plant and it’s not doing very well. I’ve moved it to different locations. It says to keep the soil, moist sun, part shade and not to mist. What am I doing wrong? I really don’t want to lose this plant. One picture has already dried up.
Just sharing the tiniest pitchers ever. Found this seedling hiding under my newest nepenthes. Was able to separate it and it’s been doing well for a few weeks at least. For reference for the size of the pitchers, this is a two inch pot.
My Venus fly traps soil is growing moss it’s pretty cute but is that ok ? (Just about to top up water dish)
Hello, I picked up my first Venus fly trap on the weekend and one of the heads (?) is turning black. I think it has a bug inside that was there when I bought it. Is it sick?
Hello, does anyone know what could be wrong with my pitcher plant? It is doing this with most of its leaves and hasn’t created a single pitcher!
it finally opened!! the biggest pitcher i’ve grown :)
Just wanted to share that my butterwort propped way more easily than I thought it would. ☺️ I started the babies 3/25/2024, so this is about 2 months of growth.
Update on the teeniest tiniest pitcher Little Timmy he opened up y’all think he’s actually going to catch anything? 😄
Spring pitchers grew in nice and strong I can’t wait for summer and the lowland guys to pop off!
I’m having a hard time identifying this nepenthes. Anyone know?
Got 4 new carnivorous friends the other day: 2 drosera, 1 ping, and 1 nepenthes. This is my first nepenthes though. Can I keep it in the same carnivorous mix I made for my other plants (peat, perlite, and sand)? The shop guy said I shouldn’t, but didn’t really tell me what to keep it in. It is in sphagnum and maybe something else right now, and I see Planta says carnivorous mix OR sphagnum, but wanted some opinions. Should I mix in a little sphagnum to my mix, or maybe make a layer of sphagnum on top? Oh, also, should it have a water basin with a wick like I give the others? Thank you! PS: I know the nepenthes doesn’t look great. The guy gave it to me for $15 because he said he sunburnt it a little. PPS: the plants are 1: Nepenthes rafflesiana white x caffelsiana 2: Drosera aliciae 3: Drosera intermedia 4: Pinguicula emarginata x moctezuma
My Venus fly plant hasn’t had much luck catching any flys yet… so I have to buy live bugs for it!!!! ???? I’ve been trying to trap flys in jars and they’ve gotten so close to the mouths of the plant but sadly not on it long enough to trigger the trap.
Did I successfully get one single pod of venus flytrap seeds this season??!? Update: I think so lol. It was my first time attempting to let the flowers grow and pollinate myself. Didn’t have the proper soil. Attempting to use decorative sphagnum cuz someone told me you could use it for flytraps before. Wish me luck. Will give an update in a few weeks if it goes well.
The first pitcher on my rehabbed Alata! She had the worst thrips last year & never produced a pitcher. I ended up chopping her into three and started over. I’m so happy 😁 Btw - you can use Bonide systemic granules for your nepenthes to prevent thrips. Something I wish I had known last year!