GQsm   10 #13 Posted February 27, 2017 I've always either picked mine up from the Malvern show ordered it on-line. Have you got a good selection of plants? We've not had much of a winter so I'm a bit concerned that mine won't have had a good dormant period and might have dried out..  Not really, consider myself a complete novice although I have somehow managed to keep a Sarracenia (purpurea hybrid I think) alive indoors for over a decade without really knowing what I was doing. It is now looking sad so I have decided to learn how to really look after it properly having never re-potted it, but I also have a happier few year old Sarracenia barba, a vft that is a few years old and a Nepenthes alata which is ripe for splitting and I want to get big and thriving. Over the years I've also had a couple of Drosera and Pinguicula which have been fine for a few years but then gave up the ghost either for no reason, an undetected dry out or sun scorch during holidays away. I would like to grow better specimens of these and keep them alive.  I've always liked carnivorous plants hence why I kept buying new ones every few years or so but never put the time in to really learn about them. Just positioned them in the house on instinct and made sure I used rain water to keep them damp at all time.  I'm more proficient at conventional gardening now and am more confident in general horticulturally so decided the time to step it up with carnivorous plants has come. Will grow the collection this year if the treatment of my current plants goes well enough.  Came across Shropshire Sarracenias photos today and found it very inspiring. His use of peat free soils is interesting but I wanted to use peat for my first time re-potting CP, especially my 10yr plant which I really want to save.  What sort of collection do you have?  I was planning to keep mine indoors still, do you have yours outside?  I've been reading loads online but any local tips? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
neeeeeeeeeek   10 #14 Posted February 28, 2017 I've got a few of these and similar varieties  http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y48/trumpmuffin/IMG_5061.jpg That was from 2013 so it has loads more trumpets now. I have a couple of the more rambling ones with big pitchers but it just isn't humid enough so they are never very happy. the tall pitchers are so easy to keep.  Currently they are looking shabby in the greenhouse, I am hoping they will be ok.  I've not really looked much locally, i've split a few of mine in two and they have been ok.  My honeydew ones may or may not come back, I put my traditional fly catcher on in the greenhouse the previous winter and it died sorry about the post, I've recently broken my collar bone so things are tricky!  ---------- Post added 28-02-2017 at 16:38 ----------  Another picture  http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y48/trumpmuffin/IMG_20150612_172511.jpg Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
GQsm   10 #15 Posted March 1, 2017 I've got a few of these and similar varieties http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y48/trumpmuffin/IMG_5061.jpg That was from 2013 so it has loads more trumpets now. I have a couple of the more rambling ones with big pitchers but it just isn't humid enough so they are never very happy. the tall pitchers are so easy to keep.  Currently they are looking shabby in the greenhouse, I am hoping they will be ok.  I've not really looked much locally, i've split a few of mine in two and they have been ok.  My honeydew ones may or may not come back, I put my traditional fly catcher on in the greenhouse the previous winter and it died sorry about the post, I've recently broken my collar bone so things are tricky!  ---------- Post added 28-02-2017 at 16:38 ----------  Another picture  http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y48/trumpmuffin/IMG_20150612_172511.jpg  Great looking specimens. Do you split yours when they warrant it? Would be good to trade small spare plants if I can get some out of mine this year. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
neeeeeeeeeek   10 #16 Posted March 1, 2017 They were filling the pot so spilt them. I didn't keep a good track of which came from which though and some do better than others. I managed to take cuttings of the other pitchers rooting them in spagnum moss but nobody wanted them! I will try and take some of it has grown long enough to take cuttings Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
biggsy   10 #17 Posted May 7, 2017 I've got a few of these and similar varieties http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y48/trumpmuffin/IMG_5061.jpg That was from 2013 so it has loads more trumpets now. I have a couple of the more rambling ones with big pitchers but it just isn't humid enough so they are never very happy. the tall pitchers are so easy to keep.  Currently they are looking shabby in the greenhouse, I am hoping they will be ok.  I've not really looked much locally, i've split a few of mine in two and they have been ok.  My honeydew ones may or may not come back, I put my traditional fly catcher on in the greenhouse the previous winter and it died sorry about the post, I've recently broken my collar bone so things are tricky!  ---------- Post added 28-02-2017 at 16:38 ----------  Another picture  http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y48/trumpmuffin/IMG_20150612_172511.jpg  WOW!!  Those look huge!!  I thought the pitcher plants only grew to about four or five inches!! :thumbsup:   Biggsy Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
