Carnivorous plants

But how do you walk them? Or hop them? :-) LeeAnne

I never meant it to be a slam on you, so glad you didn't take it that way. I lost my kitty "Nermal" to a fire. It was the devastation of my life. I no longer leave candles anywhere in the house unless I'm there, but as I said it's not an issue any more. Candles and birds are not companions. Their little lungs are delicate. They are probably much hardier than they say in all the literature, but I'd rather stay on the safe side.

Glad your kitty was none the worse for wear.

You cant be serious with that response. "Fat baboon ass"? "Monkey brain"? Was the school bell about to ring and you couldnt think of anything else? Good comeback.

Where you been hiding, monkey boy? Or should I say Mr. Peepers?

Was almost ready to have your monkey face posted on milk cartons!!!

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You'll probably have problem with pets and plants if you feed the plants meat. Eventually Snoppy or Garfield will smell it, get curious and probably redecorate your aquarium.

It wouldn't surprise me if a lot of carnivorous plants are poisonous, given they would probably need protection from starving herbivores that wandered into a bog with not much else edible around.

I have a carniverous plant query so might as well insert it into this existing thread. My White Topped Pitcher Plant got trampled to the ground by a racoon a year ago & never fully recovered; it tried but did not succeed in producing even one full trumpet this rest of the year. It's still alive; it produced long tall unfinished trumpets, but they never got to the point where it could "eat." The "rootball" is minimal & merely anchors it, I don't believe it gets ANY nourishment from the soil. So, is there any chance this plant may still bounce back next year? Without having caught even one moth or bug, it seems it'll have to be even weaker next year than it was this past year so is just doomed. It was so pretty before the racoon got it. Will I have to give up & get another one altogether??

-paghat

My recommendation would be to foliar feed this plant, even through winter if any part of it stays evergreen in your region. It should bounce back, but I find this particular family of plants appreciates colonization, rather than specimen settings. I think with regular foliar applications of seaweed it will recover. See if you can find other plants to form a colony in the same family and plant them nearby.

Thanks, will try foliered seaweed, never heard of doing that. It does live in a colony of sorts, but it's the only white trumpet sarracenia, the rest of the grouping consists of very strong Purple Pitcher Plants which are much shorter (almost prostrate) sarracenias, plus a single not-as-strong hybrid called ladies-in-waiting which in two years has remained rather dwarfed. They used to share the bog with a cobra plant but it sent out runners & spread willynilly so I had to separate those into their own little bog (the cobra was also racoon-trounced but bounced back with extreme speed).

There is not a plant I know of which cannot or does not benefit from foliar fertilization. Seaweed has so many incredible properties, one of which is a great range of trace elements, and can give a range of protection to plants which are living on the cusp of a zone change. For example, here where I am, it can be 8b-9a some years, 8a-8b some others. Doesn't sound like a wide range, but it is. Seaweed can protect plants and help them through light frosts of 32 degrees better than if no seaweed had been administered throughout the seasons.

Try it. I'd be interested to know if or when you see new growth emerge.

Victoria