QUESTION: In my collection of carnivorous plants that I have purchased from your site, I have been having difficulties growing my Nepenthes Velvet that I purchased in August. For starters, as you …

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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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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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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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QUESTION:I have a Drosera capensis Big Pink that I got almost one year ago. It's in an east-facing windowsill and in its original soil. I water with low-mineral tap water. I live in Fairbanks, Alas …

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QUESTION: I included a few pictures of some Nepenthes that are all growing very well, but not pitchering. The first is a Nepenthes ventrata that is growing next to a Miranda. The Miranda is doing …

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QUESTION: I have a Nepenthes, but I don't know what Nepenthes it actually is. During the wintertime, all pitchers died and the plant was resting. Here in Finland we have very long, dark and cold …

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QUESTION: I've got a Nepenthes aristolochioides x glabrata hybrid which has become etiolated -- weak elongated vine (when compared to pictures on your site) -- and not put out any new pitchers in …

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QUESTION: For the sundews, you note "several hours" of direct sunlight. Our apartment faces ENE (in Washington DC) and gets about 2-2.5 hours of morning sun. Is that enough to keep these plants h …

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QUESTION: I received my Venus Flytrap back in November. I’ve been loving growing it, and it’s been fun watching the traps grow and open. I recently noticed that my plant is growing a flower bud. …

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QUESTION:I have a Drosera graomogolensis. This one you water from below? I like this one a lot and can't wait for it to grow big. Do you think it looks okay? I almost want to run a butter knife aro …

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QUESTION: I was wondering if you guys can help me figure out what I going on with my sundews. Their tentacles seem to dry up, fall down, then the leaf goes either brown (Drosera spatulata), black …

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