The carnivorous plants are starting to grow again after their winter dormancy.
These ones are indoor windowsill ones grown from seed on sphagnum moss. #CarnivorousPlants#Drosera#Sarracenia#SavageGarden
Repotting day for the Venus Flytraps planted from seed in Fall 2022. They seem about halfway out of dormancy. The leaves are starting to stand up and there is new growth, but most of the traps are not fully active yet. They were pretty easy to work with this time. Most of them went into a larger pot, but I put some in smaller pots to give to friends this spring. The last pic is right when they were removed from the old pot.
Brought these outside for the first time this year to get some sun and fresh air. They started coming out of dormancy a few weeks ago (I reset the wintering bulb light timers every few weeks to follow sunrise/sunset). They'll be going in and out of the house until they fully acclimate to outside again.
The Australian Pitcherplant has the cutest little pitchers. It’s not closely related to Sarracenia (American Pitcherplants) or to Nepenthes (Tropical Pitcherplants), but instead to things like Oxalis (Wood Sorrel). These kind of insect-catching hollow leaves have evolved independently three times in the flowering plants.
I've never had any luck with carnivorous plants, but maybe I'll take another chance with this one. It is welcome to chow on my occasional fungus gnats. Anyways, I added it to my list of plants to acquire.
@artemesia Generally carnivorous plants are full sun plants, though some like Nepenthes and Pinguicula do fine in bright indirect light. They also apparently hate hard tap water, thankfully the tap water where I live works just fine. (Most also need acidic media with no fertilizers.) Some easy-to-grow carnivorous plants to get started with are Nepenthes x ventrata and Pinguicula “Weser”. (The Pinguicula will be great for catching fungus gnats, Nepenthes tends to catch ants more often.)
I’m wondering whether this butterwort (Pinguicula) is making a bud. Haven’t had any flowers on butterworts yet. Very excited.
Not sure which species. It had pink leaves but the new ones came in green. The newer new ones are showing some pink. Probably to do with letting it sit uncovered sometimes (direct light)?
I have a dormancy question. This is the first one for my one year old Venus Flytraps from seed. I seeded them way to close together (I know better now). I know the best time for separating them out is during the dormancy period, though when is best within that? Is it now when they are dormant for about a month or so with some green on them still or later closer to spring. If the latter do I just move the roots and rhizomes?
It feels like everyone who grows these has had a late start this season, but it's finally that tuberous #drosera time of year again.
A couple of views of my D. tubaestylis, the first of my tuberous to get going. Two different plants from the same pot. One smaller specimen, the other flowering size.
Nepenthes gracilis “squat” is such an underrated lowland pitcher plant that for some reason, I don’t see mentioned very often outside of the Southeast Asian cp hobbyist community. It’s tiny & compact (like, FAR more compact than either the normal forms of gracilis and ampullaria), it’s easy to grow, its leaves are tiny compared to its pitchers. #CarnivorousPlants#SavageGarden
That said, Nepenthes campanulata x ventricosa has become really affordable & widely available nowadays (at least here in Malaysia) and it has all the strengths of N. gracilis “squat”. (It does grow large eventually but with a bit of pruning, it can stay as a miniature forever) #SavageGarden#CarnivorousPlants