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    Rhizome Rot Strikes

    They don't actually self-destruct but the growth habit can cause some problems. If you are lucky enough to grow a large plant and don't split it, their growth habit is to grow from the centre out, with new growth points increasing the diameter of the plant. As it does this essentially the centre...
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    Flytraps outside all year

    I put a piece of drain pipe in one corner so I can look down it and see the water level and syphon excess water out in summer if necessary, although it seldom is over here, and I let the bogs inundate for a week or so before syphoning it out, any longer and you risk losing oxygen to the roots...
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    Rhizome Rot Strikes

    They (old Rhizomes) do go brown and corky, not only in winter but at any time of the year, I don't know what causes it, could be old age, a pathogen, or something I know naught about, but the main rhizome dies by degrees, leaving only the new growth points, which also die if the rot is not cut...
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    Macro shots

    Great pictures!
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    Mistletoe

    Hi Partisangardene Yeah, I know we have male and female plants and I know I have both on the same tree already as I have berries for the first time this year. Below is a picture of the tree with its present level of Mistletoe inhabitation and I can see another 6 -10 plants germinating already...
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    Mistletoe

    Well, I planted some more berries on the same tree and it looks like they are taking too. There will be too many plants for the tree to sustain as they grow on so I will need to do some thinning. But I know now how best to grow them from seed, a skill I didn't think I would ever need, let alone...
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    Mistletoe

    Hi Lloyd. There are probably 5 plants there, hence why I managed to get berries, they are the same age as yours are, I got some berries at the same time as you got yours. I cut out a fair bit of the centre of the tree to open it up for sunlight and whilst slow growing for the fir 5 or 6 years...
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    Mistletoe

    Well it looks like I have berries! That must mean I have male and female plants on the tree as there are no other plants in the vicinit, who knows I may be the person responsible for the reintroduction of Mistletoe to our area. I did however completely missed the male flowers, the female flowers...
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    Darlingtonia seedling

    You may well have cut it off a bit early I'm afraid, as the plant has no roots yet, they are normally left still connected to the mother plant, till it can grow roots and fend for itself. However being where we are, lay it flat on damp/wet sphagnum is your best bet, mounding the mosst round the...
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    Flowering Binata Help (noob)

    I have bazillions of them in my outside bogs, mostly due to pulling them out trying to weed, and then several plants growing from root segments I have left in the soil, which only makes my problem worse. If you do want to propagate them, your best bet would be with root cuttings, unpot the...
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    Picture of the day!

    Both are in the family Nymphalidae with the red admiral being Vanessa atlanta and the monarch Dansus plexippus. As the suggested rank implies the monarch is bigger than the red admiral and the monarch has a mostly orange inner margins with a black outer margin to the wings. Cheers Steve
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    Sarracenia purpurea purpurea x oreophyla Sand Mountain

    Oreophyla hybrids, often do produce large plants.
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    Sarracenia alata var. nigropurprea

    is that a consistant trait? I have had similar flowers that have changed in later years possibly due to environmental conditions. I wish that they hadn't of course. Cheers Steve
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    Hot pepper

    I have some Bhut Jolokia 1 million SHUs and Caroina Reaper 2.2 million SHUs growing - will let you know how I get on!!!
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