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Q/A #129 - New Traps Are Turning Black(Post)
QUESTION: I wanted to say that I thoroughly enjoyed the purchase and reading the information that you had about taking care of the plants was helpful; however, I stumbled across an issue. I've pu ...
Q/A #64 - Is My Drosera filiformis Dormant or Dying?(Post)QUESTION: I received my dormant Drosera filiformis on March 8. I bought the soil for sarracenia and sundew from you. I followed the directions. I put my plant into a 5" plastic pot with holes i ...
Q/A #20 - Spider Mite Web?(Post)QUESTION:I have a Pinguicula Pirouette. Great light from 0600 to 2300 LED, and keep in water tray. All water is distilled through a dehumidifier. Light mist 1 time a day but recently noticed webbi ...
Q/A #35 - Cape Sundew Is Dewless(Post)QUESTION: I purchased this Drosera capensis from Sarracenia Northwest six months ago. I live in Central Florida, and my Drosera sits inside on a windowsill. After I received the plant, I repot ...
How Much Perlite to Add to Peat Moss?(Post)How much perlite should we add to our carnivorous plant mix? While peat moss is the primary soil ingredient for carnivorous plants, namely Sarracenia, Venus flytraps, and sundews, we add perlite to ...
Q/A #80 - Red Dragon Flytrap Dried Out(Post)QUESTION: I have had the plant about 1 month I put it outside on the deck. This gets full sun. Shade the last couple hours of the day. I kept it in the same container it was shipped in and didn’ ...
Q/A #131 - Nepenthes Seems to Be Dying(Post)QUESTION: I’ve had this Nepenthes Gaya for just a few months. I repotted it into a mix of peat moss and perlite, equal parts. It was doing really well until about a week ago. It seems to be dyin ...
Q/A #37 - Nepenthes Needs Time to Acclimate(Post)QUESTION: I have a nepenthes that was shipped from CA to Denver, CO where I'm located. When I received it, the plant had numerous, healthy and beautiful pitchers but also many brown spots on the ...
Is Perlite Safe for Carnivorous Plants?(Post)Is perlite safe to use with carnivorous plants? A customer asked us that question a while back because he read on another carnivorous plant website that perlite is alkaline, and that you shouldn&rsq ...
Q/A #147 - Nepenthes in Terrarium Not Producing Pitchers(Post)QUESTION:My Nepenthes isn’t growing pitchers.. it looks like it has three different buds that want to grow but haven’t changed in weeks. I have it in a terrarium for humidity because I li ...
Q/A # 158 - An Unexpected Cause of Deformed Nepenthes Pitchers(Post)Jacob here with Sarracenia Northwest. Since 2005, we have answered thousands of questions from carnivorous plant growers. Here’s a question from the archives, submitted to us in December 2018.
LED Lights for Tropical Plants(Post)Hi, I’m Sean Springfield, one of the growers at Sarracenia Northwest. I’ve been growing Nepenthes for over a decade, and now I manage the tropical greenhouse here at the nursery where we ...
