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| Burnt-looking flower stalk. |
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| Burnt-looking flower stalk. |
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| Burnt-looking flower stalk. |
Friday, April 13, 2012
Burnt Flower Stalks
They're not really burnt, but I don't know what happened. It could be from aphids, or maybe frost that I didn't get my plants in from in time. (I don't know that my plants have seen frost this year.) I took these tonight after I brought them in.
There are plenty of healthy flower stalks on the same plants. Wonder what's goin' on.
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Lock Pick Pitcher and Aphids
Bringing my plants in tonight, I noticed more of my pitcher plants are putting up pitchers. The shape of a new pitcher looked so familiar to me, and then I realized why. It looked like a lock pick. So I put the pot of Sarracenia leucophylla " Tarnok" aside to photograph it with a lock pick. I got my lock pick, got my camera, went to take a picture, and I saw them.
I consulted my The Savage Garden book, and saw that it recommends Orthenex. Then I remembered that I already own Orthenex, from the time I bought it for my butterwort, which didn't like it very much at all (butterworts are sensitive). The book did say to avoid aerosol sprays, and that's what my Orthenex is. The internet told me Orthenex has since been taken off the shelves for being too toxic. Good ol' Jeff Dallas from Sarracenia Northwest's YouTube video talked me into going out and buying Bayer's Rose & Flower Insect Killer, feature Imidacloprid. Except he could have talked me into it better by telling me what the product itself was.
Went out to Walmart, got it, came home, and sprayed all my pitcher plants and VFTs, even though I only saw one affected pitcher plant. I hope it doesn't harm 'em. I should have gotten under the leaves of the VFTs better, I bet.
Oh, and
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| Aphid. |
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| More aphids. |
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| 'nother aphid. |
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| 'nother aphid. |
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| More aphids. |
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| More aphids. |
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| 'nother aphid. |
I consulted my The Savage Garden book, and saw that it recommends Orthenex. Then I remembered that I already own Orthenex, from the time I bought it for my butterwort, which didn't like it very much at all (butterworts are sensitive). The book did say to avoid aerosol sprays, and that's what my Orthenex is. The internet told me Orthenex has since been taken off the shelves for being too toxic. Good ol' Jeff Dallas from Sarracenia Northwest's YouTube video talked me into going out and buying Bayer's Rose & Flower Insect Killer, feature Imidacloprid. Except he could have talked me into it better by telling me what the product itself was.
Went out to Walmart, got it, came home, and sprayed all my pitcher plants and VFTs, even though I only saw one affected pitcher plant. I hope it doesn't harm 'em. I should have gotten under the leaves of the VFTs better, I bet.
Oh, and
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| Lock pick and Sarracenia leucophylla "Tarnok" |
Whoops
I kept intending to catch up with my posts for all of last year, and kept putting it off, and now it'd take forever to recount the whole year by going through my pictures. So I'm skipping to this year. If I need to, I still have pictures from last year.
My last post said things weren't going as planned, but everything went fine. I put my plants on tables with chicken wire, and other than the stupid trees spitting their stupid litter all over my pots, everything went well. More false vivipary on my VFT... Oh, I guess I repotted twice since my last update. I found a good source for perlite. Better Feed in Turtle Creek, PA. It's something like 120 quarts for $16.
My last post said things weren't going as planned, but everything went fine. I put my plants on tables with chicken wire, and other than the stupid trees spitting their stupid litter all over my pots, everything went well. More false vivipary on my VFT... Oh, I guess I repotted twice since my last update. I found a good source for perlite. Better Feed in Turtle Creek, PA. It's something like 120 quarts for $16.
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| Body pillow of perlite. |
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| Straight out of New Eagle, PA. |
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