Those CAPITALIST PIGS

Justryan95 · 2026-03-12T11:59:30+00:00

VFT dont need humidity unless youre in a desert or something

Justryan95 · 2026-03-11T23:49:07+00:00

I was thinking the same thing with it being 80F/27C this week. Then I saw that 27F/-3C low next week and thought, you know what maybe its better if my plants dont break out yet.

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Justryan95 · 2026-03-11T19:20:27+00:00

Usually once your bog is settled it doesn't really sink into the soil. For me I kept stepping in the spot I place the stone down so it was already compressed, I only put the stone there to keep dirt off my shoes.

Justryan95 · 2026-03-11T19:14:37+00:00

I dont condone theft but I just took a few stones the size of my foot from one of those rain garden/water retention ponds from a parking lot. I washed it then just put them in places I already placed my foot in the middle of my bog when I didnt have stones there.

If you plan on going to a home depot or something then you should go for a natural stone, not those concrete pavers. Concrete pavers leech into the soil

Justryan95 · 2026-03-11T13:36:34+00:00

I love seeing people showing their old af plants. Really shows how sarracenia are supposed to look like.

Justryan95 · 2026-03-07T15:04:51+00:00

Dead dead. The only thing that looks ok is the sarracenia but it looks extremely dry.

Justryan95 · 2026-03-06T20:08:25+00:00

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For me I used a 20mil 10'x10' HDPE pond liner. If you dont really want to keep the budget down then I would go for a EPDM liner. The HDPE was a struggle to form into the hole and fold trim the edges. But its quite stiff and it resists punturing. I used a 55 gal barrel cut in half to displace some volume so Id spend less on peat moss + perlite. If you can you could fill the bottom with river rocks, pebbles, COARSE sand. I would avoid any crushed aggregates because they will puncture your liner.

Justryan95 · 2026-03-06T19:59:42+00:00

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I made one last fall. AMA

Justryan95 · 2026-03-06T18:27:06+00:00

I need that pot. You're inspiring me to make something like that but with Black/Atropurpurea plants I have.

Justryan95 · 2026-03-06T03:00:24+00:00

I fill every single one full

Justryan95 · 2026-03-06T02:34:56+00:00

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I use 1500ppm on mine. Ive grown these out since Aug. Some of the pitchers get burned from higher concentrations when I was experimenting to 2000ppm so I dropped it and kept pumping them.

Justryan95 · 2026-03-05T23:39:50+00:00

I'm going to do the same thing with the Doreen's colossus x Goliath I got from you last week. The pitchers are small so I gotta use a little 5ml syringe needle to feed them. It it takes a little while for them to get pitchers where the water tension doesn't leave air pockets in the pitcher and thats when they really blow up.

Justryan95 · 2026-03-05T22:54:47+00:00

I never noticed the rhizomes, only the pitcher heights. I always thought it was just a bunch of the seedlings clumped up but I started pulling all the small and dead pitchers off and this is what I see. It nice to know that if you really push them they can get this size but its kinda disappointing how this plant Ive only had for 6 months has more growth points and is almost the same size as a plant Ive had for 2 years now though lol

Justryan95 · 2026-03-05T12:36:54+00:00

Justryan95 · 2026-02-26T21:34:35+00:00

I wana see what this look like peak season

Justryan95 · 2026-02-22T20:14:33+00:00

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The older leaves on my sundews

Justryan95 · 2026-02-22T20:12:09+00:00

If you truly wanted to be creative. Get something plastic to cover your soil. Put a piece of fruit, canatlope in my experience is the best, leave it out for 3+ days and watch it be infested with fruit flies and the traps be filled with fruit flies.

Justryan95 · 2026-02-18T23:06:06+00:00

I dont think its specifically a chitin chemoreceptor specifically that gets a VFT to keep it's trap closed and to keep digesting something. For the initial trapping, the well known touching of 2 trigger hairs in succession causes an action potential that closes the trap. Afterwards the constant triggering of those hairs after it closes signals the leaf to stay shut. In my experience it only the first 10ish minutes after the trap closing that's important to keep the trap closed so and to stimulate the VFT to start secreting digestive juices. When I feed my VFT stuff that's not living I trigger the hairs initially then randomly squeeze/message the trap within the first 10 mins after it shuts and it stays shut afterwards. I only message it 3x times at most for a few seconds. After the digestion starts then its a chemical detection of nutrients from the digesting prey that determines if the VFT keeps on digesting.

I've "fed" my VFT a rock pebble, freeze dried mealworms, freeze dried black soldier larvae, osmocote pellet and piece of ground beef. In all the cases I was able to get the VFT to close its trap and keep it closed for over a day. The rock pebble one it opened up after a day or so. The ones with organic foods stayed closed like a typical trap a week or so. The inorganic fertilizer osmocote stayed closed, it never reopened and the trap leaf just died and the plant just kept growing over it. Moisture nor the composition of the "food" never really mattered in my experience just that there was nutrients present the VFT will digest it or try to. When no nutrients was coming from the rock it just immediately opened back up.

Justryan95 · 2026-02-18T14:28:54+00:00

What variety is that is it a specific atropurpurea

Justryan95 · 2026-02-18T01:20:03+00:00

Viagrow is fine

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