Please... What is he?

Thanks!

C3D

Thanks for the information! It is very much appreciated. The plant has been a little neglected for the past month or so but we are back on track with the feeding schedule and he's been moved to a sunnier area. Gonna rub elbows with the orchids.

I don't have pictures of the plant with new pitchers and my husband and I have a different memory of the description.

Thanks for taking the time to reply!

C3D

Did at any point your pitchers look like the (not so wonderful looking) one on the link provided below? If so, the "panel of experts" have deemed my plant to be an N. ventrata.

Can't add much to Back2eight's advice. Have you considered trying a hanging basket approach or a planter?

Aside from what appears to be the dried LFS from the plastic bags that Lowes or Home Depot sells, what else is in the mix?

Um... a teenager recently showed me how to copy & paste a picture directly to the message box and I seemed to have misplaced that information (hence the link approach). Could you show me how?

Thanks for taking the time to reply. Nope. Your photo doesn't look like what mine did in better times. If I recall correctly the pitchers were a deep cranberry red. My DH thinks they were two toned.

Hmmm. I could put him in a basket. Great idea! Thanks.
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If you have your images stored somewhere like Photobucket, you can place a copy of the TAG address into the text of your post and then you should get a photo within like this:

Thanks again for your help.

C3D :-)

I use Photobucket and cpforums.org as hosting sites. What I normally do is right click on the image and then click Properties. Then right click URL to highlight (select) and then click to Copy. Then Okay. Then I come to the forum and try to paste, but I am used to having an Image tab to click and then paste. It's different wherever I go! Here's what happens when I paste the URL in the message field:

http://www.cpforums.org/gallery/albums/album57/N_sanguinea.sized.jpg

I'm used to bracketing the URL with [img].... [/img]

I know there's something with the use of < & >, but I can't remember.

So your husband is a "designated hitter"?

Sure wish I could help out more, but I only have a few Neps. But ventrata and ventricosa are the most common ones that I have come across or seen identified from garden centers. Supposedly, my little one that came from Lowes is an N. sanguinea.

URL
TAG
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Copy / Paste the TAG address. It has < *****> kind of brackets.

Different sites require different ways to link. GW uses the
TAG / <> form.

Hope this helps a bit.

Thanks again for your help. LOL!! Those hanging guys are just scraping the surface of the total planty thing population. :-)

C3D

total planty thing population. :-) LOL!

If I understand you correctly, this should work:

Man, that's a ;ot of computerese!

Thanks, muchly!

Glad I could help you get that most lovely of pictures up for me to drool over. LOL! :-) I have some VFT plants but that's it that would qualify for this forum.

My husband is a pitcher for his softball team when he's not doing his real thing.

Thank you mulchy as well!

3DChick

and here is a mature plant with some pitchers drying up like in your picture above, and some new ones being pushed out. It has changed a lot since the picture was taken.

A quick right click reveals that you are also utilizing Photobucket and the dimentions are: 873 x 1538 pixels. According to Plantakiss,she suggests that forum pictures should be 640 x 480 (or 480 x 640 in this case) to fit properly. If you go to the image in your account, you will see the tab for Edit. click on it and it will give you options for 75%, 50%, and 25%(?). You won't achieve 480 x 640, but a 50% reduction would be a lot closer.

When I was brand new to the hobby and I posted the suppsoedly N. sanguinea for ID, a forim member and I dialogued a bit about it and hetold me that the pitchers of a juvenile plant can look different than those of a mature plant. I thought my young plant was a ventricosa, since it looked close enough and that seemed to be what most people think garden centers are selling. But the panel of experts determined I have a sanguinea and the other Nep is a ventrata. I really don't know enough about Neps to say so. you know far more than I. Oh, and talk about envy....

Was it pigmy sundews, specifically, you transplanted, or were they other sundews. Pigmy sundews are especially sensitive to transplanting or even bumping into. Sometimes I think that if I look at them cross-eyed they will die. Sounds like yours are in temporary shock from too much direct sun too fast. Hopefully they will come out of it soon.

3Dchick(?) Getting back to DH, you're like the 4th female type person to refer to their husband as DH, which to me, having grown up with baseball and sports in general, means designated hitter. So I'll "see" your DH with my 'DW', which stands for Drinking Water in my ususal line of work, and then raise you my 4 DK's, which should be confused with PK's, which should not be confused with nails that one buys at a hardware store.

'mulchy'? Either that was a typo, or a very clever and forum appropriate pun! LOL!

As for pictures taken that day, and far less photogenic, here's one I took that is a framed picture of the kitten that my DW had when we were dating:

And here's the one that represents this forum name, which is called a D. paradoxa, which is in the Petiolaris Complex of plants:

Almost done here... IDing these plants reminds me of the medical community identifying neurological disorders. It isn't an exact science. Worse yet is a parent that does have a child with (let's say) Aspergers Syndrome and sees similar behvaior being demonstrated by another child (let's say)at church and immediately assumes that this is what the other child has, when in factit could be ADD or ADHD or just plain having a bad day. My point is that we're all just guessing, based upon limited knowledge.

So I'd say that we three each have Asian Pitcher Plants, of "Nepenthes Species", as the non-comittal label on the pot indicates.

The sundews that I transplanted were Home Depot plants so I'm not sure what they were. They look sort of like spatulata but not quite. They are definitely in transplant shock. I hope they pull through. My son knowcked over my pot of VFTs and didn't tell me. He tried to put them back in. He didn't do a very good job. They sat bare root for most of a day. I replanted them and watered them. I hope they make it. A couple of them were suffering transplant shock, too.

My DH refers to Dearest Husband (of 21 years.) In "Real Life" he is a pediatric surgeon. :-) It was he who originally purchased the mystery plant in question from a nursery along with a several orchids.

As far as my ~thank you mulchy~ comment... that was 113% intended.

Oooooooooooooo! More sundew envy! I needs to find some to add to the planty thing collection. :-)

I could easily post another picture or ten but they would be non-carnivorous planty things like this guy:

Orchidy and other tropical planty things outside for the summer. (About 25% of the total planty thing population.LOL!!)

Thanks for all the help and information!

C with 3 Ds

My experience with Home Depot and CP's is that they are terribly unimaginative with what they bring in. I have only seen P. primuliflora, D. spatulata, S. Dana's Delight, presumably N. ventrata, S. leucophylla, and VFT's. Lowes brings in twice as many varieties. My educated guess is that they brought in D.spatulata. Here are a couple unclear pics of D. spatulata:

I wish the plants a speedy recovery!

C with 3 Ds: By trade, I am an Environmental Scientist and/or a Laboratory Analyst, but haven't come with a job in those araes as yet, since our move. My wife is the breadwinner, as Children's Minister/ Christian Education. We will have been married for 24 years, this July.

You have an affinity for the number 13.

I like your very efficient use of what appears to be a swingset to me.

My typos, of which there were many, were all unintended!

For both of you: I would be happy to share plants with you, be it sundews, bladderworts, or butterworts - but not now. I have yet to fulfill my end 3 trades and need to get them taken care of.

I have the following:

...as well as D. capensis, intermedia, and possibly filiformis.

Tony

That is very kind of you to offer to share with us your lovely plants!! Thank you. :-) I'll get together a list of my species orchids from Ecuador and other tropicals and see if you would be interested in them.

I am a small animal and exotic pet veterinarian and do have an affinity with the number 13. My husband and I were both born on August 13th of the same year but I am exactly one hour older.

I know what you're thinking...Cradle Robber!

That is indeed a swing set frame that was put into use in an effort to deter a thief in squirrel's clothing, uhh, fur. Every summer this squirrel would help herself to my orchids, tree ferns, Spanish Moss, brommies.... She would snatch the plants (or part of them) and take them to her nest high up in a weeping willow tree.

After we suspended most of the orchids from that frame as well as others, we had no squirrel garden up in the tree. Our children did get a new and much nicer swing set.

Kindest regards,

C3D

A brief introduction of myself - My husband is a pastor and we have three kids. I am a medical transcriptionist, and I work from home. I do lots of volunteer work with too many organizations to list. I grow CPs and I have poison dart frogs and tomato frogs, along with a couple of dogs, a cat, and hamsters. Oh, and horses, too. I have other tropical plants in my tanks, but I don't know much about them.

Anyway, I can make the same offer as Petiolaris about the plants. I don't have much to offer, but I am always willing to trade! I would like to try my hand at an orchid one of these days.

My 7-year-old son is in love with hamsters, and reads everything he can find about them. He is going to do a science project on genetics with them next year. He already has it planned out, and will have to start early to get good results.

I can get a list of my plants, also. It is not very impressive right now, I'm afraid. I have trimmed a lot of them down, transplanted, and traded some for frog supplies. I have ten new frogs arriving in the mail tomorrow and I had to get ready for them!

Kyle

Also, the "Asian Pitcher Plants" that I have seen from Home Depot, which is supplied by Collisantis, look slightly different from that which Elgecko gave me. Why is there this variation? Are what we are seeing truly ventratas or have we mislabeled plants? Is it just genetic variation?

Can you ID this one that I got from Snowy Falcon?

Also, the "Asian Pitcher Plants" that I have seen from Home Depot, which is supplied by Collisantis, look slightly different from that which Elgecko gave me. Why is there this variation? Are what we are seeing truly ventratas or have we mislabeled plants? Is it just genetic variation?

Can you ID this one that I got from Snowy Falcon?

B28: I'd be happy to send seeds and plants your way. No need to trade.

Great minds do work alike. :-) We have a German Shepherd who is very keen on "watering" newly planted things in our yard. We have successfully use the product WALL'O WATER, which is a barricade made out of plastic.

To offer a bit of protection for our bog garden, the main access area to the site is wood bark chips. That was to decrease the muddy paws entering the home but it surprisingly acted as a deterrent to the site. I think it does not feel good under bare dog feet. LOL!

We have a German Shepherd who is so far a 6 month cancer survivor! :-) We have also 6 cats, too many birds to list or count, 5 hermit crabs, a 55 gallon fresh water tropical fish tank, 2 koi and 2 goldfish.

I have treated frogs other amphibians as well as reptiles. A Spring Peeper with a concussion, a White's Tree frog with maggots, 'Pac-man' frogs, Tomato frogs, Fire bellied toads...
We has had several of the above mentioned ourselves.

Froggie and amphibian medicine can be a little tricky. We need to get an accurate weight to be able to give the right dose of a particular medicine. That your vet doesn't know frog medicine is perfectly OK. We can work around that.

If you suspect that your frog(s) has worms, collect some frog poop (less than 24 hrs. old) and take it to your vet. Ask them to send it out for parasite analysis to whatever outside lab they use. The lab will call back with the results and can suggest the correct medication and dose based on what they find.

I'd be happy to send you some orchid plants without a trade. Do you have an idea what kind you would like? I have a variety. Congratulations on your new arrivals too! :-)
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Kakozord,

That *does* look very similar to my mystery plant. The colouration was a deep cranberry red. I think. DH still thinks not. LOL!

Lookie all the different plants we have pictured in this thread. Hmmmm. I'll need to start looking for more of these Asian Pitcher Plants, ehh?
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Petiolaris,

Hmmmmm. Cacti too? I can do that as well! :-)

Kindest regards to all.

ChickaDDD

Petiolaris - that green pitcher/purple peristome looks like it is probably the N. Judith Finn that Agristarts produced alot of a few years ago.

Chickadeedeedee - hard to say for sure on your plant. Probably N. Ventrata but there is a chance it is N. ventricosa as this species is also found in the homecenter/garden center market but not nearly as often and usually as tiny plants instead of the big hanging basket size plant that Deroose usually releases.

Back2eight - pure N. alata is not in mass production by the companies that supply garden and home centers. They are available though from nurseries that specialize more in CPs.

Tony

I have ten more poison dart frogs arriving in the mail tomorrow. I am excited!

Tony: Judith Finn? I'll add that to my grow list!

C3D: How may both B28 and I contact you? My Email is in the GW 'My Page' thingy (I think).

You have 6 cats? Gee, the most we ever had any one time (not including kitten litters) was 3. We are down to one right now. I used to have tropical fish, but not goldfish.

I also have a cat question as well. My cat sneezes everyday, a few times a day, for the past few years. Previously, she never did. Can cats have allergies?

B28: I know my spatulata pics are horrible, but does yours look anything like them? D. spatulata is spoon-shaped and forms plantlets, meaning it "clumps".

N. sanguinea 3 months old.. With a motionless prey caught in its internal fluids *evil snicker*

and a N. ventricosa I wont post the newer pictures of the pitchers cause they are some what deformed

And a Phal i have.. my favorite!! I want a Paphiopedilum bad!

Uhmm Enjoy?
Cheers

Petiolaris, kitties can indeed have allergies. Their number allergin is dust mites. One of our cats has asthma. Comes complete with his own little kitty face fitting inhaler. LOL!!!
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Back2Eight, I'll need to get to work tomorrow and look up froggie medicine doses. I'll get back to you on that tomorrow.
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Thanks for the ID Tony. That plant was purchased at Oakland Park Nursery in Columbus, Ohio. They had lost the ID as well. And here I thought I was the only one to do that!
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Another pic you say?

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C3D :-)

I live in Dayton Springfeild area zone 5/6 ish... Grow some sarrS!

Cheers

Chickadeedeedee: There are CP's that have flowers that somewhat resemble and may be described as miniature orchids. Believe it or not, I have a couple of picks! These CP's ar of the Genlisea & Utricularia genus, known as corkscrew plants and bladderworts. Here are 2 bladderworts:

(U. sandersonii)

Trust me, there are better pics than these out there, but these are mine. Note the "bunny ears" on the second pic.

Asthma? Oy vey! They make inhalers? How much do they run? (Thanx!)

Also hears one of my Livida flowers (it was an accadental bloom that i had gotten right after i received it)

Halfan hour later of trying to get a good shoot cause it is such a small flower and i wanted to get the closest possible picture of it!! Their will be more soon i hope!

Cheers

sarraceniahunter: In addition to what the headbanger said, I would also advice patience and time. Neps can several weeks to adjust to their new environs. Keep it in one place, with daily watering and easy drainage, by the light.

bisquamata
dichtoma
livida
longonfolia
prehensillis
renformis
sandersonni
warburggii

cheers

Pinguicula X Sethos

Pinguicula X Titan

Nepenthes Hybrid(Home Depot)

Bigmouth Venus' Flytrap(Before)

BigMouth venus' Flytrap(After, Growing season, 2005)

Nepenthes(Home Depot)

Nepenthes Sanguinea(before tragedy)

The Window parade

ENJOY!

Yea Ventratas vary alot - I think age of the plant is a key factor because my pitcher plant is currently undergoing a transitional phase. It has been producing two inch pitchers on each leaf all Winter. Now it has skipped a few leaves and began producing a monster (four inches and growing) skinny pitcher on one of the top leaves.

Keep em coming, this thread is great.

Kyle

and a lot longer when I post some piccies later. hehe.

Xymos. Love your pics! Such a variety you have! You have bettas? I put one male and 2 females in a 200 gal. pond outside for mosquito control last June. In September I had caught and brought in about 50-75 bettas of all sizes. The other day I noticed there are at least 4 males in the 55 gallon aquarium. (Dad and sons.) NO fighting between them at all! Hmmmmm.

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Petiolaris. The chamber and little face mask for the asthmatic cat cost about $40.00US and it was a one time cost. The albuteral medication is about $20.00US per prescription. Lasts about 3 months.

Ooooooooo! *LOVE* the bladderworts! :-) How would I care for something like that so they would look as happy as the ones you have?

BTW... I noticed you were "zoned out" earlier in the thread. Feeling better now? LOL! :-)

I've seen one GW person is "CalZoned" and another is "OH-zoned". LOL!!
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AKHeadBanger. I live on the shores of Lake Erie. It is my front yard. Because of the warmth from the lake I believe we could be a microclimate of 6-7ish.
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Back2Eight.Sending you mail shortly to answer your froggy questions.

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Is it a requirement to post a photo with a post in this thread? :-) I can but it won't be a carnivorous plant.

Chick a DDD

scott.straus@gmail.com

In case you are interested in sundews and bladderworts in a short while from now, I'd be happy to share with you, B28, or others. I have easy, basic plants that can be grown at a window sill and will readily flower.

Speaking of Ohio and Lake Erie, We lived in Hillsboro, Ohio, which is between columbus, cincy, Dayton, and Chillicothe. We currently live near Buffalo.

Well, you used up my zone choices! Wait a second...

Here is a sampling of what I have:

...as well as others posted above. Thank you for the cat info. Here is that cat:

I don't know if I ever said, but I moved my ping Titan to a bowl. It is doing great, and getting lots of soil gnats. It is being a piggy!

ChickDDD, are femal bettas for sale in pet stores? All I ever see are the males. My daughter has one, and I was disgusted with having to change the water so often. It really stunk! I put some java moss in the bowl and haven't had to change the water since. I thought that was pretty awesome. I use water plants in my frog tanks and never have to change the water. I didn't really think it would work for that nasty fish, but it did.

Pot of D. Capensis with a developing flower stalk.

My Nep x Ventrata. I set up a hanging rig with a broken coat hanger attached to the curtain rail so it hangs right in front of the window. It's now getting three hours of direct afternoon sun and seems to enjoy it.

Beasty VFT enjoying a mild day in the greenhouse. It's been under CF light all Winter.

Nep. Sanguinea with it's largest pitcher so far. Can't wait for this monster to open.

Finally, my Sarracenia cobra-nest hybrid just coming out of dormancy outside and growing my very first sarracenia flower.

Cheers

Kyle

And well hears some sundews

(the capensis is alba variation and its chowin down on some chocolate now, but you cant see it in this one cause i put it in right after the photo!!)

Cheers

Back2Eight: Yep. The female bettas are in pet stores. They're usually in the tanks and not in individual bowls like the males. I too raised hundreds of them when I was in high school and sold them to pet stores. That was a lot of fun. Very good $$$ too!
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Kakozord: Stunning collection you have too! And cacti as well. Looks like my window sill (sans the pitcher plant hanging.) I have mini orchids and Spanish Moss and Tilandsias galore hanging as though a "living curtain".
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Xymox: I too was surprised that the males tolerate each other. The aquarium is heavily planted and there's lots of stones as well to provide cover but I have seen no nastiness among the boys. I only *seem* to be filled with answers because the correct questions were posed. :-)
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Wanna Lake Erie winter pictute?

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C3D

Worry not that no one knows you. Seek to be worth knowing.

Lots of S. Pupurea with out red pigment.. and 2 difrent varaites of Sundew! I think ones a D. intermedia and the other D. rotundifolia...
Look at all the beautiful Sphagnum moss!
lol im posting yet again more pictures!!

Well My Guppies are soon to give birth... its been almost a month and im excited! My first baby guppies!!! I cant WAIT

I had a betta for about 6 months then i gave the lil guy away.. i allways put a mirror up to him.. i think i stressed him out a TON!

Cheers

only a CP addict would compare a Capensis to a Guppy!
Yes a Female Half Black 2 Snake skin Fancy Males (yellow black with a peral of blue) and A sliver female with a red tip) Both Pregnant from the fish store and they had some red/blue their.. in the tank So it will be very neat to see what i get But i have no seperate tank for these guys (doesnt bother me i dont really want them but its just an extra food source for the other fish!)

Back2eight
"headbanger, you gave a sundew a piece of chocolate??"

YEs hears whats left of it about 1/3 of it has been digested.. After about a week (i think i for got exactly when i fed it to it... it moved over night i wish i coudl have timed my camera to take a photo every 20 min's over night and the next day ( then i could put to gether a little flash with the photos :D )
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You should put sundews pings and utrics along the ledge instead... that would be alot neater... lol

OK you fishy CP people.... Question for ya. :-)

Is it alright to water the CPs with water siphoned from the gravel of a freshwater aquarium? I use the aquarium water for my orchids, tree ferns, banana trees... every time we do a partial water change.

Thanks again for the information.

the 3 D Chick

The thing about CP's is that for the most part, they operate from a nutrient poor paradigm. That's why RO, rain, distilled, and deionized water are recommended. Tank water will have nutrients, but how much and how significant is difficult to discern.

cheers

Got it. LOL!

Thanks. :-)

Chickx3Ds

Cheers

Plz tell me the name of my nepenthes !!!!:D