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Post by Flytrap on Mar 25, 2007 14:18:37 GMT -5
What a crazy 2006. First, our town ran out of water last summer, then this winter... my water lines froze and we've had non-stop rain for days. The VFTs I had growing out in my bog are no more. Our local slugs and birds made sure that any VFT that survived the winter, became a meal for themselves. So my guess is that if any VFT were planted here in the Canadian "wild", could not survive our crazy weather nor survive our hungry critters. My darlingtonias were also chewed up - by slugs, birds and deer. The good news is that my collection of VFT seeds that were left over after distribution to the various seedbanks all germinated nicely last fall, and have all survived it's first year of dormancy. Already some of them are averaging 1 inch in diameter. What I really enjoy is that I have a local baby treefrog who has made his home in my VFT seedling flat. He woke up last month and is still hopping about the baby VFTs looking for fruitflies and stuff. I'll post some pics of this baby frog guarding the brood of baby VFTs. Got to love nature. It's just so beautiful.  |
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Post by vraev on Mar 25, 2007 19:54:43 GMT -5
Come on FLytrap! DOn't tease me with talk like that about a baby frog guarding VFT's. Come on bring on the pics....  .. But i am sorry to hear about your VFT losses. If you want i have a small division that is growing from nubs from a 2 yr old VFT typical. |
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Post by Syble on Mar 25, 2007 20:07:08 GMT -5
I'd love to see some pics too, Sorry that I don't have much in the way of "fancy" VFT but I do have some typical and seed grown(look about the size of offsets and divisions) that I could send your way? Sib  |
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Post by lloyd on Mar 25, 2007 20:19:52 GMT -5
I only have small seedlings, evidently a collection of cultivars. I wouldn't mind sending some.
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Post by Flytrap on Mar 25, 2007 21:12:22 GMT -5
OH sorry... I didn't mean that I'm out of VFTs  The ones that perished were just some extra VFTs I had planted in my outdoor bog garden. I still have all those fancy VFTs in my greenhouse. So I'm okay. I do not need any new VFTs... but I really appreciate your kindness and generosity! It won't be forgotten ;D |
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Post by vraev on Mar 25, 2007 21:30:53 GMT -5
good to hear that you have ur cultivars saved Flytrap. I am going to try outdoor bog in summer with a couple of walmart VFTs just in case ... I am also planning on somehow getting a leucophylla by bugging my bro who is in buffalo, NY...he doesn't want to...but I'll somehow get hold of some plants from the US...incl a ceph ! BTW.....you are due pics ... I really want to see the baby tree frog and VFT's for scale. |
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Post by Flytrap on Mar 26, 2007 23:37:50 GMT -5
BTW.....you are due pics ... I really want to see the baby tree frog and VFT's for scale. Here you go mon ami... the baby VFTs are approx. 0.5 to 0.8cm in diameter :  Here's another shot of the VFT nursery, towards the other end of the large rubbermaid container (and closer to my fogging heads, thus more moisture for the moss):  |
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Post by vraev on Mar 27, 2007 0:06:20 GMT -5
oooh that is sooo cute. wow! insane. I would love that frog but I am pretty sure that in my terrarium it will go missing soon. I can't believe how well moss seems to grow for you. Its soo hard to grow that particular moss especially in that nice ordered forest fashion. I can't believe many ppl hate it. |
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Post by mabudon on Mar 27, 2007 11:28:09 GMT -5
HAHAHA Varun, I would like to hear a technique for how to NOT grow that moss- when you get to see my collection in person, you will see, moss grows despite ANYTHING I do Cute pics, Flytrap, that's gonna be one heck of a stand soon |
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Post by funkytechnician on Apr 20, 2007 10:05:11 GMT -5
HAHAHA Varun, I would like to hear a technique for how to NOT grow that moss- when you get to see my collection in person, you will see, moss grows despite ANYTHING I do Cute pics, Flytrap, that's gonna be one heck of a stand soon man, I hear ya, I have a problem with spagnum spontaniously growing everywhere  I tried to remove as much of it as I can but a few days later you end up seeing a new spag. grouth shoot start poking out from a mass of sundews, and whn you try to pluck it out, it takes half the sundews with it  .....I don't mind that moss he has growing though, it stays pritty short, no good for seedlings though  |
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Post by Flytrap on Apr 20, 2007 11:00:58 GMT -5
Remember this pic from last summer? I shudder to think of what *may* happen to this little froggy when these hungry VFTs grow up.  Last weekend, I found two small froggies hopping about the greenhouse. This is great, but it also sucks... because I would like to fumigate the entire greenhouse with a fungicide and some insecticide (to rid of slugs, snails, aphids and scale). I hate to use pesticides, but since this last winter, I've noticed a few aphids on my new VFT growth, and some scale on some of my neps... I think they may have originated from some trades with some local guys last year I've made an application of pyrethium (natural insecticide made from Chrysathemums). But I am a bit concerned that this poison, along with the slug bait may hurt the froggies in my greenhouse. |
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Post by lloyd on Apr 20, 2007 11:56:46 GMT -5
Is Neem toxic to vertebrates? I know it's not toxic to people.
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Post by vraev on Apr 20, 2007 14:22:25 GMT -5
lol! froggy ....O froggy!! I just saw a long silk thread in my terrarium....it was abruptly stopped at the VFT's teeth ...lol! I don't need to imagine a lot ;D ... lol! you won't have too many problems for now david! Those seedlings grow pretty slow in yr 1 and 2. Yr 2 is when u should start to worry. lol! I know that, that baby frog wouldn't last more than 5 min in my carpet of doom ....lol! *chomp*. ... I LOVE VFT's !!!! But yeah....I would never do that to a baby frog like that....its ooo cute. |
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.. But i am sorry to hear about your VFT losses. If you want i have a small division that is growing from nubs from a 2 yr old VFT typical. 
I tried to remove as much of it as I can but a few days later you end up seeing a new spag. grouth shoot start poking out from a mass of sundews, and whn you try to pluck it out, it takes half the sundews with it 
.....I don't mind that moss he has growing though, it stays pritty short, no good for seedlings though 
