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Venus Flytrap

Q/A #92 - Red Dragon Flytrap Is Finicky

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 the traps never open and wither away. ( Submitted in June 2021.) RESPONSE BY JEFF DALLAS: The Red Dra

Sarracenia

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 this plant’s exact ID. I live in Amarillo TX in zone 7A. I don’t want to leave it outside and it not be able to ha

Venus Flytrap

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 hair and bumps. I got the seeds from Wish.com. Can you identify these plants for me? I'm also in Canada, so it's hard

Sarracenia

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 ago and have watered almost daily but have seen no emerging growth from anything. I’m tempted to dig everything up

Winter Care

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 need to water them during dormancy. I used Sphagnum peat moss without fertilizer. So did my plants die bec

Tropical Sundew

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 leaves started loosing the dew and the older leaves began to turn brown. At first i thought it was just the strands

Nepenthes

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 was wondering if it would be necessary or recommended to split this out from the main plant and grow it as a separ

Nepenthes

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 stem is really starting to look yellow and wanted to check with y’all to see if something could be wrong? The

Nepenthes

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 yesterday and have downloaded The Ultimate Carnivorous Plant Guide for Beginners. What a true gem of a book! Jacob

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