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| Moth in Sarracenia "Judith Hindle" October 17, 2010 |
Monday, January 24, 2011
Moths and a Fly in a Sarracenia "Judith Hindle" Pitcher Plant
Sunday, January 23, 2011
VFTs and Today's AFC Championship Game
Steelers or Jets? This VFTs changed his colors to show his support.
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| Actually taken on December 13, 2010, 6 days before the Steelers lost to the Jets in week 15 of the regular season. |
Saturday, January 22, 2011
Feeding Sundews
I talked to Aaron of http://www.growsundews.com a lot today about feeding sundews. I fed a few sundews before talking to him by wetting betta pellets and breaking them up with tweezers and feeding. That's really hard, because of how reluctant wet pieces of food are to leave tweezers, and they always go to the middle of the tweezers rather than hang onto the edge. So I talked to him and subsequently ground up my betta pellets with a mortar and pestle and put teeny-tiny pieces of dust on my Drosera capensis seedlings.
I thought I had a billion seedlings, but it turns out that I might not. Some are dying, because of mold. Maybe I didn't rinse the peat well enough. But the peat in my Venus Flytrap mixes isn't molding at all. I have sand instead of perlite in the sundew mix, but sand is supposed to be a lot better than perlite for not growing mold and algae and such. I don't know what's going on. But I did just sew a few bajillion more D. capensis seeds the other day, so I may have more to work with soon.
If I have the same luck with these betta pellets as I did with the last pellets, I'll be out of luck, because the last ones killed every plant I fed them to. And this time I fed them to both plants I have of one Drosera species, an unlabeled form of D. spatulata. I'm hopeful, though. Last time it was with D. adelae, and they're real jerks when it comes to surviving. I got fed up with my adelae and threw their roots into some LFS and covered them and forgot about them, and they're doing better than when I gave a darn about them.
I thought I had a billion seedlings, but it turns out that I might not. Some are dying, because of mold. Maybe I didn't rinse the peat well enough. But the peat in my Venus Flytrap mixes isn't molding at all. I have sand instead of perlite in the sundew mix, but sand is supposed to be a lot better than perlite for not growing mold and algae and such. I don't know what's going on. But I did just sew a few bajillion more D. capensis seeds the other day, so I may have more to work with soon.
If I have the same luck with these betta pellets as I did with the last pellets, I'll be out of luck, because the last ones killed every plant I fed them to. And this time I fed them to both plants I have of one Drosera species, an unlabeled form of D. spatulata. I'm hopeful, though. Last time it was with D. adelae, and they're real jerks when it comes to surviving. I got fed up with my adelae and threw their roots into some LFS and covered them and forgot about them, and they're doing better than when I gave a darn about them.
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| D. capensis right after feeding |
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| D. capensis shortly after feeding |
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| D. capensis a little while longer after feeding |
One Year of Growth
I was just going through a lot of my plant pictures to link to my Grow List on the right, and I found a picture of my Sarracenia rubra I got from Lowe's. I bought this little guy on July 27, 2008, and this first picture was taken August 7, 2009. The second is from October 7, 2010. So it is later in the growing season, but that second year made a heck of a lot of difference. He was just little-wee when I bought him at Lowe's.
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| August 7, 2009 |
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| October 7, 2010 |
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