June 9, 2023
QUESTION:
I'm in the Portland area and bought this Red Dragon Flytrap at your open house a couple of years ago. It's never really thrived but this year seems more sickly. It gets new growth but th
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June 6, 2023
Q/A #91 - Sarracenia Scarlet Belle or Not?
QUESTION:
I was gifted a carnivorous plant at my my son’s funeral a year ago. I was told it’s a Scarlet Belle, but as I grows I’m not sure that’s correct. It is extremely important that I find out
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June 6, 2023
Q/A #90 - Flytrap Not Flytrap
QUESTION:
I have been growing this from seed thinking it was a Venus Flytrap. Now I am not sure, It has shell shaped leaves and is starting to grow fairly tall. The stalks and some leaves have hai
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May 16, 2023
Q/A #89 - Sarracenia Didn't Survive Winter.
QUESTION:Sarracenia purchased last spring and summer I planted in an outdoor bog garden, in fall I covered the entire planter with a foot of leaves. I live in Wisconsin. I uncovered a couple weeks
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May 15, 2023
Q/A #89 - Is It My Dad's Fault My Plants Died?
QUESTION:My Venus flytraps and Sarracenia died over winter!! I put them in the garage for dormancy where it's around 40°F (4°C). I live in USDA Zone 5B. My father told me that I did not n
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May 15, 2023
Q/A #88 - Is my Cape Sundew Dying?
QUESTION:I recently got a Drosera capensis albino (from another nursery), and it caught a LOT of small flies, and then proceeded to flower: However recently after flowering, a lot of the
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May 12, 2023
Q/A #87 - Do I Separate the New Shoot on My Nepenthes?
QUESTION:I received a Nepenthes sanguinea from you a couple of weeks ago, and it seems to be doing very well. In the picture, it can be seen as a tiny shoot near the base of the main plant. I
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May 11, 2023
Q/A #86 - Nepenthes Stem Is Looks Yellow
QUESTION:I received a Nepenthes Velvet from y’all just over a month ago. I noticed the cut stem was brown on the tip, but just figured that it was just part of the cutting. Today I noticed that the
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May 9, 2023
Q/A #85 - Need Help with Pitcher Plants from a Friend
QUESTION:
I have two pitcher plants a friend just gave me. She felt they weren’t doing well in her care.
I know next to nothing about carnivorous plants but, luckily, found your website yesterd
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May 8, 2023
Q/A #84 - Can I Use Perlite Infused with Fertilizer?
QUESTION:My wife came home with perlite infused with Miracle-Gro. Is it safe to use for my Venus fly traps?(Submitted in May 2019.)
RESPONSE BY JEFF DALLAS:No. What you can do, however, is ta
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May 4, 2023
Q/A #83 - Nepenthes Cutting Not Cutting it
QUESTION:
Why are the growing tips of my Nepenthes Deroose Alata basel cutting turning brown? I made this cutting in mid-March. It's in peat moss, and I water it with reverse-osmosis water. Is th
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May 3, 2023
Q/A #82 - Nepenthes Pitcher Is Drying Up
QUESTION:I got my Nepenthes boschiana x veitchii about a week ago and I have it in a window that gets daylight but no direct sunlight. I bought a 15w white light non-LED and keep it on about 8 hour
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