daner
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Post by daner on Aug 19, 2013 19:25:53 GMT -5
I have 2 VFTs in 2.5 inch pots. They ARE growing new traps but Not trapping prey. If anything, they close too slow to trap prey. I have about avg 5 traps per plant but tonight I decided to trim em to two newest of traps each plant. I beleive when limited by the type of lighting I have(aquarium daylight bulb), energy managment is important.
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Post by Dennis A(cook1973) on Aug 21, 2013 19:44:34 GMT -5
If anything, they close too slow to trap prey, That sounds a awful lot like dormancy or maybe they are to cold
I am not a expert I just started with CPs too and this is just a opinion maybe someone else has a better answer for you.
Let us know what this was when you find out. 
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Post by H2O on Aug 21, 2013 21:45:15 GMT -5
Pics will always help and what are your parameters? How bright is your light? Temps? In the future it isn't usually a good idea to prune traps that are still alive, it will only slow it down, the more traps the better.
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Post by Dennis A(cook1973) on Oct 5, 2013 21:20:22 GMT -5
Pics will always help and what are your parameters? How bright is your light? Temps? In the future it isn't usually a good idea to prune traps that are still alive, it will only slow it down, the more traps the better. I got 2 Typical flytrap[s and a Big Jaws Cultivator, neither flowered yet but the Big Jaws is showing signs of a missed dormancy with deformed leaves and traps it was suggested by Lloyd to do this next month or November in LFS but all I have access to is sphagnum peat that looks like potting soil Right now it has 7 traps forming,2 of those are opening but no trigger hairs yet\!! Can I put all 3 in 1 baggie with damp peat and put them in the fridge?(I have a lot of peat so I am re-potting them in new peat after they wake up.) Can they be misted with a fungicide and leave the baggie partially opened for air? I was also wondering ,in its present state is putting it in dormantcy a wise move? |
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Post by hal on Oct 5, 2013 21:28:58 GMT -5
I don't have a lot of experience with VFT's but if these are recent acquisitions they are probably only a few months out of tissue culture and I doubt they need a dormancy this year. Sometimes you just have to sit back and let the plant do what it wants to do. It can take them a while to acclimatize to your conditions and if you mess with them all the time they just get set back. It's difficult to do, but might benefit the plants.
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Post by Dennis A(cook1973) on Oct 5, 2013 21:33:50 GMT -5
I think I am gonna leave it for now
I got it from HB in I think it was in May this year as a new hobby after getting a pacemaker
It is a tissue cultivator.
I just got rally concerned with winter coming and it looked like this plant was not going to make it tl spring....thanx for the advice
I will post a pic of it tomorrow.
it was imported from the states in 2009.
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Post by H2O on Oct 5, 2013 22:01:46 GMT -5
Tissue culture*
A tissue cultivator sounds like something that will exist when robots farm our bodies to take over the world.
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Post by Dennis A(cook1973) on Oct 6, 2013 8:31:05 GMT -5
Tissue culture* A tissue cultivator sounds like something that will exist when robots farm our bodies to take over the world. Robots farming our bodies will never happen! We gotta survive the zombie apocalypse first lol ! |
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