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Carnivorous plants

Started By AntsGodzilla , Aug 19 2024 11:51 AM
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#21 Offline AntsGodzilla - Posted December 10 2024 - 12:55 PM

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Here's a sarracenia root cutting that I recently planted.

 

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And many Carnivorous plants such as: Dionea muscipula (fly trap), Sarracenia x 'Fiona' ( American Pitcher plant), Nepenthese ventrata (Tropical Pitcher plant), and Pinguicula agnata x emarginata (Butterwort) (show off your plants here)

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Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and be wise! It has no commander, no overseer or ruler, yet it stores it's provisions in summer and gathers its food at harvest. Proverbs 6: 6-8

 

#22 Offline rptraut - Posted December 11 2024 - 1:28 AM

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Hello AntsGodzilla;

 

Nice work!    What have you used as a planting medium?

RPT


My father always said I had ants in my pants.

#23 Offline AntsGodzilla - Posted December 11 2024 - 3:27 PM

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Hello, I use a mix of perlite, professional grade peat moss, and new Zealand long-fiber sphagnum moss.


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And many Carnivorous plants such as: Dionea muscipula (fly trap), Sarracenia x 'Fiona' ( American Pitcher plant), Nepenthese ventrata (Tropical Pitcher plant), and Pinguicula agnata x emarginata (Butterwort) (show off your plants here)

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Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and be wise! It has no commander, no overseer or ruler, yet it stores it's provisions in summer and gathers its food at harvest. Proverbs 6: 6-8

 

#24 Offline rptraut - Posted December 11 2024 - 5:21 PM

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Hello AntsGodzilla;

I sometimes add a bit of coarse granite sand, but otherwise I use the same mix.
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#25 Offline AntsGodzilla - Posted December 11 2024 - 5:26 PM

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Nice! I'll have to try that sometime. 


 

And many Carnivorous plants such as: Dionea muscipula (fly trap), Sarracenia x 'Fiona' ( American Pitcher plant), Nepenthese ventrata (Tropical Pitcher plant), and Pinguicula agnata x emarginata (Butterwort) (show off your plants here)

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Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and be wise! It has no commander, no overseer or ruler, yet it stores it's provisions in summer and gathers its food at harvest. Proverbs 6: 6-8

 

#26 Offline antsriondel - Posted December 11 2024 - 5:26 PM

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Couldn't resist a few more pictures.

 

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Pitcher plants in my greenhouse catch any escapee ants as well as any wild ants that might have raiding on their mind.

 

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There's a great amount of diversity in colours and shapes of Venus flytraps making them even more interesting to grow.

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Wow, pitcher plants in windows to catch unwanted bugs is such a good idea! Might be something I look into doing.


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#27 Offline rptraut - Posted December 11 2024 - 5:44 PM

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Hello antsriondel;

Those pitcher plants were in my greenhouse where I kept a Campononotus colony. Wild ants kept wandering around the area and I worried they might find a way to invade my colony. Pitcher plants are ant catching specialists so it was a natural way to reduce their numbers and it worked a charm. Plus, I didn’t have to feed those plants all summer!
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#28 Offline AntsGodzilla - Posted December 14 2024 - 3:00 PM

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Here is my newly made terrarium! I will still be touching up on some thing, so let me know what you think!

 

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And many Carnivorous plants such as: Dionea muscipula (fly trap), Sarracenia x 'Fiona' ( American Pitcher plant), Nepenthese ventrata (Tropical Pitcher plant), and Pinguicula agnata x emarginata (Butterwort) (show off your plants here)

Godzilla thread

Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and be wise! It has no commander, no overseer or ruler, yet it stores it's provisions in summer and gathers its food at harvest. Proverbs 6: 6-8

 

#29 Offline ANTdrew - Posted December 14 2024 - 5:37 PM

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Nice! Adding some springtails would be a nice touch.
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"The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer." Prov. 30:25
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#30 Offline rptraut - Posted December 14 2024 - 11:45 PM

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Hello AntsGodzilla;

 

Nice planting, did you grow all those seedlings yourself?    

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#31 Offline AntsGodzilla - Posted December 15 2024 - 8:23 AM

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Hello, most of these plants are tissue-culture with only one or two of the fly-traps being seed grown.


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And many Carnivorous plants such as: Dionea muscipula (fly trap), Sarracenia x 'Fiona' ( American Pitcher plant), Nepenthese ventrata (Tropical Pitcher plant), and Pinguicula agnata x emarginata (Butterwort) (show off your plants here)

Godzilla thread

Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and be wise! It has no commander, no overseer or ruler, yet it stores it's provisions in summer and gathers its food at harvest. Proverbs 6: 6-8

 

#32 Offline AntsGodzilla - Posted Yesterday, 12:26 PM

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I got the idea from rptraut to grow C.Ps next to my ants, so please welcome nepenthes ventrata!

 

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And many Carnivorous plants such as: Dionea muscipula (fly trap), Sarracenia x 'Fiona' ( American Pitcher plant), Nepenthese ventrata (Tropical Pitcher plant), and Pinguicula agnata x emarginata (Butterwort) (show off your plants here)

Godzilla thread

Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and be wise! It has no commander, no overseer or ruler, yet it stores it's provisions in summer and gathers its food at harvest. Proverbs 6: 6-8

 

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