Little flypaper carnivores ❤️

Pinguicula esseriana

Foreground: Pinguicula “estrellita”
Background: Pinguicula moranensis f. orchidioides

Pinguicula cyclosecta

Left: unknown ping (possibly moranensis?)
Right: Pinguicula “mehitable”

She hunted!

Drosera ultramafica x spatulata

She’s currently sending up four separate flower spikes, the flowers bloom for such a short time I have yet to actually see one open!

Running into mixed messages while reading about whether mulberries can be grown indoors or not. Does anyone know if they require their cold periods to live and function, or will they be healthy but simply not make fruit? I'd love to grow a berry bush or a similar sized ornamental shrub inside, but I do not have access to an outdoor space to give it chilling time. Has anyone done this before?

Heliamphora sarracenioides x minor Black Burgundy

Heliamphora have a reputation for being difficult, but I’ve had good luck so far growing on a windowsill, even in my very dry climate. She gets lots and lots of light!

Bonus utricularia sandersonii and u. calycifida in the background

Some plants react to the sun much like humans do, "getting a tan". It's called sun stressing!

For this picture I kept one of Scylla's "mouths" in the shadow (indirect light), so it shows its natural green colour, but I made sure that the other "mouth" enjoyed as much (direct) sun as possible.

The plant is not upset about this experiment at all. It keeps pushing "mouths" like crazy.

Cross-posted from The Eternal Playlist: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/35664600

Bonus plant raps by Rocco Elliot:

Bad Move - https://youtu.be/kHi-WddFPbU

Big Leaves Only - https://youtu.be/CEJqMnue-EQ

Watering Day - https://youtu.be/wcD9dG_kyuU

Propagatin' - https://youtu.be/CW1CsVvLt-k

Nursery Rhymes - https://youtu.be/m2_QKF3T7g0

Just Me & My Plants - https://youtu.be/mePj_vjS-j8

Talk To My Plants - https://youtu.be/tDaGJtnC4XE

Plant Sauce - https://youtu.be/t_h7W1pQMzM

Stressed Out (Prayer Plants) - https://youtu.be/LQ0xunrJzBw

Cross post from !hydroponics@slrpnk.net

Link to video where you can see it freely floating :)

I have no idea where to put it but I couldn't say no

This is already the second flower right now, and there are even more buds forming!

Most were painted with acrylic paint, and the ones with tree leaves are made with glue and napkins

After the repotting and new environment stress, it initially lost all pitchers, but has formed new ones half a year ago. Now, it is thriving and still has the problem, that every pitcher has no digestive liquid inside, even when still closed.

From what I've read, they are about 1/3 filled when the lid is still on and that's where the juices are the most concentrated. But they should also be able to both form or suck up new liquid/ water, so even when some of it is lost somehow, it should be able to produce enough to digest prey, or if it "rains", they aren't diluted too much.

Well... mine are even "born" empty. The plant has a rough time catching flies on its own. They don't dry up and die or anything, they just are empty and unattractive for insects.

Conditions:

• Very high air humidity, most of the time about 70-80%. Again, I don't see any pitchers drying up all at once or any other issues. The plant is happy.
• Relatively high light. For houseplants very high. SW-facing huge window (northern hemisphere), but behind a curtain. Diffused. On sunny days, I get ~400 ppfd
• Substrate: LECA, semi-hydro
• Fertilizer in substrate: 1x every month or two 1 mS EC hydro nutrient solution, refilled with RO water. The EC is sitting at about 0,3-0,7 mS most of the time. I noticed much faster growth rates when fertilizing a bit, because in nature they are also getting some nutrients from the soil. But I keep it pretty low to encourage pitcher formation. I've seen a few yellowing bottom leafes (nitrogen deficiency) already, but they are relatively rare.
• Feeding: most of the pitchers are ignored from my side. I filled them up with said nutrient solution a while back from time to time, but I don't do that anymore, because there's enough active growth. One pitcher tho is filled with bugs I gave the plant, and when I see this pitcher dried up, I drop a bit of water in there to aid digestion. Just a bit, because in nature it probably rains in them too?

Pictures

The plant itself

New pitchers

The oldest pitchers are getting consumed, but a lot of new ones are forming

Active pitchers, that have caught a few fungus gnats, and one that I used a while for active insect feeding

I just adore this plant

Yes, I lost the original power supply and no, I don't want to talk about it.

Thought you all might appreciate a follow-up now that a bunch of leaves have come in. Here's hoping they remain for at least 6 months, that last dormancy took forever!

I've been taking my plants to the kitchen to water/drain 1-2 pots at a time but....I may or may not have purchased 10 more plants yesterday and that's a lot of back and forth. They're mostly in my foyer which is a half level down.

I've been thinking about getting something I can keep in the garage (next to the foyer) and quickly set up/disassemble like this:

Anyone have any other suggestions or ideas?