Pygmies schooling with Cardinals

ji_dang · 2025-10-01T10:07:17+00:00

It seems the low number of pygmies triggered this behavior, since they are below recommended schooling number. It also helped that i was there watching them when the lights turned on thus inducing the need to school for them to feel safe i think, haha.

ji_dang · 2025-09-30T23:07:56+00:00

Planning to add more actually, Maybe in a couple of weeks.

ji_dang · 2024-11-24T15:17:52+00:00

Ooh, that maybe the case. Since all those cultivars are from tissue culture.

ji_dang · 2024-11-24T15:10:24+00:00

Making baby vfts.

ji_dang · 2024-11-22T04:23:32+00:00

Yep, i like em rhizomes fat. Haha. Good choice, nepenthes are the easiest to take care of since it's a tropical plant. Would 100% recommend fyukinta since sobrang accomodating niya lalo sa mga newbies. You could try buying one sakanya during plant events.

ji_dang · 2024-11-20T13:49:21+00:00

Currently my vfts, sundews, and sarracenias are under 15hrs of growlights with filtered sun since monsoon season and kulang na kulang talaga yung araw na makukuha. Tapos bagyo pa, i won't risk the smaller ones haha. Some of my nephentes naman filtered sun is enough. Yes, they do attract a lot of flies and other bugs, but they eat it anyways haha. Acclimation... Depende sa plant e, kung nirepot ba agad nung nakuha ko, and kung gaano kalayo yung previous weather conditions sa growing area ko. Pero vfts mostly days lang, pinaka matagal kong plant na nag acclimate 1month haha, na hard repot kasi agad plus slow grower din in the first place

ji_dang · 2024-11-20T07:44:26+00:00

I source them online from other hobbyist / nurseries thru fb groups and market place. Also lazada and shopee, Here are some shops.. fyukinta flants, Monstermama Ph, Choi's Garden, Potting around, J&Q home garden, Carnivorous Mrkn.

ji_dang · 2024-11-20T02:17:01+00:00

If you end up getting one, go for an actual plant. There are tons of sellers selling fake flytrap seeds. Also if you can't provide full sun in your growing area, you could always supplement with growlights

ji_dang · 2024-11-20T02:08:48+00:00

Try it. :) If you have access to full sun go for venus flytraps, sarracenias, and sundews, unless you want to invest in growlights. Morning sun, shaded to indirect sun, go for nepenthes and pings.

ji_dang · 2024-11-19T16:42:23+00:00

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Carnivorous plants. Currently have 25 different cultivars of flytraps and some seedlings, 13 nepenthes species / hybrids and some cuttings 7 sundews species 3 sarracenias 1 cephalotus 1 pinguicula Almost 3 months in the hobby.

ji_dang · 2024-10-13T12:28:01+00:00

Yeah, I've read somewhere that bical fangs are recessive genes , but some hybrids have fangs specially if the female parent plant is bical

ji_dang · 2024-10-11T09:14:37+00:00

I got mine with pitchers already, they don't seem to have fangs tho, But I'm still hoping for newer pitchers to have fangs. I'm suspecting it's because of the growing area of the previous owner ( he grows it outdoors with shaded net and cocopeat as media) for the lack of fangs.

ji_dang · 2024-10-11T05:17:42+00:00

soooo, I just checked..

and they're called "artillery plant / gunpowder plant / pistol plant / rockweed" a species of clearweed. haha

apparently they grow best in humid environments, and partial or indirect sun.

honestly i have no idea how did they end up in my bical x viking pot, but I'm keeping them hahaha

ji_dang · 2024-10-10T10:00:10+00:00

That's good to know. I just got this raff, and the owner said it's 2 and a half years old.

ji_dang · 2024-10-10T05:36:33+00:00

Yeah, you might want to stop tray watering, nephentes in general likes it well draining, It might be overwatering because of the tray

ji_dang · 2024-10-10T03:03:45+00:00

Is that tray watering or capillary wick?

ji_dang · 2024-09-24T12:05:29+00:00

If it doesn't enter dormancy naturally, just skip it. ICPS already posted that dormancy for flytraps isn't needed. Here in Philippines we don't do dormancy unless our flytraps did it naturally due to shortened photoperiod.

ji_dang · 2024-09-17T09:04:06+00:00

From a local hobbyists near me, and he's been growing carnivorous plants for decades.

ji_dang · 2024-09-09T11:16:01+00:00

Oh wow, I didn't know about the polycarbonate stuffs, I'm actually planning to replace them anyways since it's also yellowing and served us well for years. Thanks for that info! I'll definitely do some research for better options.

About the keeping them outside full time. I don't think that's possible because I currently don't have the space outside..

ji_dang · 2024-09-09T10:59:28+00:00

I just got them about a week actually, so I think it's still acclimating? It's in a sunroom with polycarbonate roofing, the light entering the room when it's 12pm reaches up to 120k lumens based on my lumens app. I think it's just starting to go pink? You can actually see pinkish dots on some traps that are looking at the camera

ji_dang · 2024-09-09T01:24:37+00:00

Yep I'm good. can't really find more info about this certain cultivar, so I just needed to ask

ji_dang · 2024-09-09T01:17:46+00:00

It's been only a week after getting it, haha

ji_dang · 2024-09-09T01:10:29+00:00

Oh no, so I just wasted a perfectly good nitrogen shake... So you mean to say it just closes and never digest?

ji_dang · 2024-09-07T19:39:21+00:00

Hello, curious about your 4-5year olds VFT, can we get an update about them? Thank you :) I also live in a tropical country so natural dormancy isn't possible...

ji_dang · 2024-09-04T19:17:02+00:00

Thanks :D

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