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Loblaws
Feb 11, 2009 18:36:56 GMT -5
Post by lloyd on Feb 11, 2009 18:36:56 GMT -5
Loblaws had some really nice VFT's. Looked like a year old, out of TC, robust, nice big traps with a touch of red. $5.99.
Terrible instructions:
-fertilize
-African Violet soil
-indirect light
-no mention of what kind of water
-no mention that they do better outside
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Loblaws
Feb 11, 2009 18:41:32 GMT -5
Post by carnivoure12 on Feb 11, 2009 18:41:32 GMT -5
Tricks from the companies so you kill the plant, and so they will always have a market.
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Loblaws
Feb 11, 2009 19:46:33 GMT -5
Post by tael on Feb 11, 2009 19:46:33 GMT -5
Wow, that's so sickening. It's a pretty bad marketing strategy though, because people always think they're impossible to grow, and therefore, don't want to buy them. But I guess they are fascinating enough for people to keep buying them, cause the trays are always half full or less. Pretty sick though, poor plants.  |
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Loblaws
Feb 11, 2009 19:58:14 GMT -5
Post by markym4rk on Feb 11, 2009 19:58:14 GMT -5
Save em i tell ya! >.< v I went to safeway yesterday to pick up some distilled water and i jus had the weirdest feeling that i needed to check their plants and to my suprise they had some really large typicals that were bigger than any of my other VFTs. They just recieved a shipment of them and i felt obligated to save the plant with the largest traps! Now I got a typical to add to my collection.  Cheers! |
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Loblaws
Feb 11, 2009 20:05:08 GMT -5
Post by carnivoure12 on Feb 11, 2009 20:05:08 GMT -5
Aww how about the others they proabably hate you now.
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Loblaws
Feb 11, 2009 20:27:16 GMT -5
Post by dvg on Feb 11, 2009 20:27:16 GMT -5
Those instructions look like they would suit a lot of tropical plants. Trouble is, I think most nonCP retailers of these plantrs, honestly believe them to be tropicals. Unfortunately, following those instructions is a death sentence for the vft.
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Loblaws
Feb 11, 2009 20:29:10 GMT -5
Post by petmantis on Feb 11, 2009 20:29:10 GMT -5
mark you should go back there and save some more.
also lloyd, i was wondering, were they from Colasantis? those guys also sell nepenthes ventricosa and sarracenia dana's delight or judith hindle, but i can't tell the difference between the two :X
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Loblaws
Feb 11, 2009 20:35:55 GMT -5
Post by markym4rk on Feb 11, 2009 20:35:55 GMT -5
lol.. >.<
I can only do so much!
petmantis: any chance to see if the BG have Helis for me. I want one so bad >><!!
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Loblaws
Feb 11, 2009 20:43:11 GMT -5
Post by lloyd on Feb 11, 2009 20:43:11 GMT -5
They didn't say Colisantis, just some place in California. A woman wanted to buy one until I told here she had to use distilled water.
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Loblaws
Feb 11, 2009 20:47:53 GMT -5
Post by tael on Feb 11, 2009 20:47:53 GMT -5
Lloyd, your karma shall go up for possibly saving an innocent vft from certain doom!
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Loblaws
Feb 11, 2009 20:54:15 GMT -5
Post by hal on Feb 11, 2009 20:54:15 GMT -5
Which store Lloyd?
I might save a couple myself.
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Loblaws
Feb 11, 2009 21:05:17 GMT -5
Post by lloyd on Feb 11, 2009 21:05:17 GMT -5
Forest Hill Market
396 St. Clair Avenue West
Toronto
St. Clair Avenue & Bathurst Street
(416) 651-5166
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Loblaws
Feb 12, 2009 7:22:59 GMT -5
Post by markym4rk on Feb 12, 2009 7:22:59 GMT -5
The one i got from safeway the other day had 12 traps on it  To even think safeway carried them is one thing, having big healthy traps is another. petmantis: u didnt answer my question >.<! |
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Loblaws
Feb 12, 2009 8:51:06 GMT -5
Post by labine on Feb 12, 2009 8:51:06 GMT -5
Hey markym4rk, just to answer you're question,the botanical garden of Montreal are out of CP right now. Hope to see more over there in the spring. I currently have 15 Heliamphora Minor and we could work something out. Let me know ifyou are still interrested  |
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Loblaws
Feb 12, 2009 10:31:15 GMT -5
Post by mabudon on Feb 12, 2009 10:31:15 GMT -5
I can't HELP but think of Bob Loblaw's Law Blog here, sorry |
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