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  1. Raymond

    Exiting The Hobby Sell off- Open to Offers

    Hey all, Of course Im sad to do this, but I dont think I would be able to continue providing good care to my plants. Due to family issues I will have to stop growing CPs (mainly purps), but of course I hope to start back again in the future. Im throwing out a blind bid on each "pot". PM me...
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    SASE Sarracenia Purpurea OP seeds

    Hey everyone just giving away some open pollinated purp seeds, I'm saying OP but it should be Purpurea BCP x Het,but there's a chance it's mixing with other stuff since I didn't bag this one. Open to mostly everyone who at least introduced themselves. I reserve the right to say no to anyone. Add...
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    Reptile Expo - GTA

    Hey all! Coming to us on the 22nd is the reptile expo!!! To those who do not know, you can find other things besides reptile especially cheap sphagnum moss. There has also been times where you can find Carnivorous plants! Im going to bringing in a whole bunch of plants, fingers cross for some...
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    Rays Carnivorous Terrarium Build

    Hello all! I believe that today is the day I show the project I've been working on all summer. Using a 18x18x36 exoterra terrarium I've started my "show off" setup for people who come by (that would come by if covid wasn't a thing). Here is just a montage of the build thats been filled with...
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    Wanted: Temperate Pings Plants/Seeds

    Hello all, Like the title says Im looking for Temperate Pings. As the weather in soon to warm up and I believe they produce gemmae, I thought I should try my hand at these. Going to make a nice "ping bowl" with them! Im open to Sales and Trades! Ill be uploading a trade list here soon, but...
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    Ray's Growlist 2022 WIP

    2020 - Hello everyone, somehow I thought I had a growlist somewhere here. Short story short, there was none. 2022 - So many additions going to be added and the purp collection is growing at an amazing rate. Sadly no seeds for sale/trade for next year. I guess the goal is the largest purp...
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    Web + worm =?

    Hey everyone I though my plants were declining due to lack of water, but now i suspect it has to due with this new pest i found. I have no clue what it is but they peak out their head and when I move close enough to take a photo they retract into the plant. I do not know if they bore into the...
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    Sarracenia flowers stopped growth

    Hey guys Like the title says some of my larger plants started to flower profusely with Atleast 3 flowers on each of my large purps,but they stopped growing these flowers for the past 2weeks+ and the plants that were smaller and just started flowering have sent out their stalk into the sky. In...
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    Ray's Photo Thread

    Hey everyone, im bored and since I know I'm going to make a thread like this later in the year I decided now was that time. and so here are some photos Little pings in a tiny cup. A ton of purp seeds finishing stratification (the brown is cinnamon might be a coincidence for stopping mold, but...
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    How was your CP Seed Harvest

    Hey everyone! Throughout the season I have been harvesting temperate Drosera seeds. Still have a couple thousand drosera intermedia seeds drying out. Today I harvested my first sarracenia seed pod of the season. This was one of the flowers I didnt think would give me a lot of seeds, but I was...
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    Wonky growth on drosera intermedia

    The picture will tell all. First it was one plant and soon more got this. I though the first one would recover but it didn't and the ones around it got this too. Any clues? All other plants are fine, I tossed these ones. I just want to know if this was something I could have prevented.
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    Drosera intermedia has become a weed

    Yup more weedy for me than a capensis. There are hundred more around my bogs... So giveaway?
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    Ray's Patio-Bogs

    Hey Everyone! I though I would be uploading a lot more spring pictures, but there wasn't much to share. So new thread it was. Just today I finished the re-bogging of a few container in preparation for summer. As my red container required 2L of water every few days if it was hot outside, while my...
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    Very tiny, fast moving, white bugs?

    Hey everyone Around my purp I usually see these bugs but never did anything. This year though I would like to know If they are harmful in anyway as I would rather know then let this continue. In the picture below around the rhizome of the purp are many very tiny, white, mite-like creatures of...
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    Signs of Spring.

    Well that time of year is almost here! my plants have been in a unheated garage under covers for the past few months and today I decided to uncover them. They only had one layer of burlap on them, but I guess they wanted to start growing now! here are some early signs. The only sarracenia so...
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    How's your dormancy?

    We are well into our standard 4 to 5 month dormancy for Ontario and the weather has been very 'warm' for a typical December. So far we are still getting positive day time temps, with freezing during the nights. Question is, just like the title. How your dormancy going? For me all plants...
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    Raymond's Plants 2018

    Hey O Everyone Felt like starting a thread with some photos. There is not going to be much here till later in the season as basically all my plant look toasted from winter. Everything mostly survived, but lost all the taller Sarracenia in the bog to rot. Everything was looking good until...
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    Drosera Filiformis Seedlings

    Hello All! Here are approx 40+ filiformis seedlings (I stopped counting at 25) that are currently growing around my house, when I say around I mean that I move them all around my house for maximum sun exposure. Here they are. Anyways, a little about the plants: All grown in shot glasses in...
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    Hello From Ontario!

    Hey all! My name is Raymond, I'm a student studying to become a Civil Engineer. I have been interested in carnivorous plants for well over 5 years and my favorite plants has to be Sarracenia Purpurea and Sarracenia courtii. I just like the low growing and clumping of the species, also that...
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