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Post by Flytrap on Jan 6, 2009 12:41:48 GMT -5
For those following my sad saga of power failures due to windstorms blizzards and snow outs, probably know of my plant and frogs suffering over in my neck of the woods. My current greenhouse is detached, and sitting alone next to my bog... and although I've got backup heating and stuff, the headache has been frozen water lines. I guess this is part of the main reason why I get high blood pressure every winter... worrying about the health of my plants. This current winter is a doozer. I've lost a number of beautiful highlanders ...including hamata and aristiochiodes. And worst, the power failures had contributed to the messing up of the heating systems of my terraria - leading to the death of a large quantity of red eye treefrog tadpoles, dart frogs and tiger leg treefrogs. So I've decided to rip out part of my existing yard to build a solarium ... attached. as part of my home, with gas heating and an indoor pond. This will be a project I hope to embark on immediately after I return from my visits to my old friends in Borneo and Malaysia. Will keep you all updated with photos.
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Post by vraev on Jan 6, 2009 13:19:22 GMT -5
Good luck D. I hope you have a great vacation. Really sorry to hear about your losses. I will definitely keep you in mind when the plants become old enough to take cuttings. I got u covered for both the aristo and the hamata. I hope this new greenhouse turns up to be the solution you require.
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Post by Rick Hillier on Jan 6, 2009 14:38:17 GMT -5
I'll try to help out with cuttings wherever I can as well.
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Post by carnivoure12 on Jan 6, 2009 15:59:53 GMT -5
Seems like quite the project Flytrap, I hope all goes, well, what exactly is a solarium?
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Post by Flytrap on Jan 6, 2009 17:00:08 GMT -5
Thanks everyone for your generosity... but truthfully, I'm scaling back on my collection in a serious way...so I'll hold off acquiring any more new plants. You'd think that after having grown these beasts for all these years, you'd think that I'd have learned about all the plants' conditions and requirements. But truthfully, there is just so many distractions out there that keep you hopping about, never allowing you to finish one project ...then you start on the next. Take for example, moving homes and raising a family Carnivore12, a solarium is essentially a lean-to greenhouse attached to your home, and often becomes a part of your walk-in living area indoors. This is something that I had always wanted. I feel that this will be the best solution for a lower maintenance sort of set up. The heat of the house will always be available, as will be the water lines. I quite enjoy reading everyone's experiences and setups. It's almost a text book history of almost every person whom I've met who are seriously into plants - be it carnivorous plants, orchids or cacti. Everyone starts off with the ubiquitous VFT, growing it on the windowsill, then into a large glass bowl, then the terraria... then eventually graduates to a larger aquarium/ terrarium setup. Eventually, an indoor room or portable indoor greenhouse (ie plastic tent with hanging lights everywhere). Then the outdoor greenhouse -whereupon, the cost of heating will make the collector focus more on the cool growers. Now, I guess I'm at the stage where I just want to walk out from my kitchen into a large conservatory / solarium with automated misters and warmers for my neps and frogs, without fussing about watering, overwintering and lighting. Now the only glitch is paying for it all David
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Post by carnivoure12 on Jan 6, 2009 18:17:45 GMT -5
Thanks for responding David. Its going to be a big project but you'll have more space, and less hassles you maintain this parasitic Hobby. Don't give up on that Aristolochioides or Hamata, Keep watering for a year or so. There have been account in which people's eemlingly dead neps returned from the dead a year later.
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