[Wallace Grover]

Anyone have reccomendations for an easy-to-keep carnivorous plant? I wanted to start my FF cultures in advance and a post saying how they feed the extra FF's to them peaked my interest...

 

[Spaff]

I find most of the members of the genus Sarracenia to do well outdoors. I've had the most success with S. rubra, purpurea, and rosea, but they do require high light and a winter dormancy.

 

[josh_r]

You may want to consider how you want to grow them and where you live as to what you choose to grow. Many species of carnivorous plants are very easy to grow. Here in Washington, I grow darlingtonia californicum, sarracenia leucophylla and 'Judith hindle', soonest muscipula, and some other stuff out side all year round. They are relatively maintenance free and attract and trap insects incredibly well. I used to grow many tropical and subtropical species indoors back in the day and many of gem are relatively easy as well. Just do some research online. There is spool much information to be found

 

[Wallace Grover]

Any carnivorous plants that do well indoors? Right by my vivs and my plant-growing chamber there is quite a bit of light, not comparable to full sunlight ofc but still...

 

[Spaff]

You might want to look into tropical Pinguicula, Drosera, and if you have the conditions... Heliamphora or Cephalotus.

 

[boabab95]

Drosera scorpoides...IME, it creates the most dew which means more flies or D.shizandra if you can find it...

 

[Steve25]

It's according how much sun and humidity the plants indoors can receive. I grow a few Nepenthes in my windowsill. They are hybrids (highland *lowlands)

Outdoors another story I have loads outside and all easy to grow

 

[Steve25]

Outside easy to keep include sundews, most if not all Sars such as Alta, Rubra, Leuco, and hybrids. The Venus flytrap is finicky.

I would get a sundew and a few Sars to start

 

[ryan10517]

i heard that nepenthes alata is about the easiest tropical pitcher to start with. From my limited knowledge, i hear they like bright light, damp soil, distilled or RO water, and warmer temps around 80F. I've been wanting one for a while

 

[Wallace Grover]

I LOVE sundews. They seem to be overshadowed by Flytraps and Sarracenia. I have always seen them in pictures and stuff, now I need to read up on care...

 

[fishr]

You might want to look into tropical Pinguicula, Drosera, and if you have the conditions... Heliamphora or Cephalotus.

I was actually about to type the same suggestions. Personly, I love, love sundews. I recommend picking up a copy of The Savage Garden. Tropical Sundews would look pretty sweet with a few tropical Pings.

Cephalotus and Heliamphora I've read are a little trickier in their care and would do well in long term care under T5HO's.

EDIT Just a note, I would not house carnivorouse plants with frogs. With all the walking and hopping Darts do, they will antagonize or damage the plants to quite possibly to their demise. A seperate tank devoted to tropical 'bug eaters' is recommended in my experience.

 

[Wallace Grover]

Believe it or not I have an unread copy of "The Savage Garden" just sitting around unread. Time to get to it!!

BTW, these are going to be beside the frog tanks, not in!

 

[Ed]

Many utricularia are also easy to grow and bloom. I also noticed that no one mentioned Genelisea.

Ed

 

[fishr]

Ed - Never heard of Genelisea to my memory...

Wallace - Then that'll be cool! Take a look through your copy of the book and see what interests you.

My next choices down the road is the Autralian pitcher, typical form, carnivorous brom, and a sun pitcher for their own viv. and Cobra lillies since I have AC in my bedroom and can keep the plant lighted well and cool.

 

[boabab95]

I completely forgot about Genelisea's!!! they are by far the EASIET CP out there...i started with one small rooted cutting to the pic below in about 2 months...

 

[Ed]

The savage garden is a decent book but there are others that are as good if not better.. such as Growing Carnivorous plants by Barry Rice, or even Carnivorous plants of the US and Canada, the taxa specific books by McPherson (like Glistening Carnivores) or (if you have lots of money) the trio of books by Lowerie on Australian CPS. I have most of the above (although I only have one of Loweri's books and I still need to get the Taylor's monograph on Utricularia). It all depends on the level of information that you want or your area of interest. Regardless of that I heartily suggest joining the ICPS, as it doesn't cost a lot, there is a lot of good information archived with that group and you get to hear the latest information (like a Nepenthes with black (or very dark purple) pitchers) and finally get to purchase seeds inexpensively from thier seed bank (and they are able to legally supply seeds from the endangered native pitchers for hobbyists to grow (but the plants can't be sold or traded in any fashion..).

Ed

 

[Greasy]

I completely forgot about Genelisea's!!! they are by far the EASIET CP out there...i started with one small rooted cutting to the pic below in about 2 months...

You sure that is a Genlisea? What is the species? It looks very much like a Stylidium, a protocarnivore.

Anyway Sundews are pretty easy. Be careful tho some species are super weedy when their seeds get blown everywhere. Some Nepenthes are pretty easy too, but remember they are essentially vines. A good compact easy highlander would be ventricosa and a good compact lowlander would be ampullaria.

 

[Brotherly Monkey]

Some nepenthes species can be rather hardy, and have found maxima to do great in a number of conditions. Also, "Mountain orchids sometimes has cuttings for sale, at really lows prices (I think 7.99 before shipping). Can't speak to this being their standard size, but the one I bought was probably 12-18 inches

Mountain Orchids, Orchids & Plants for discriminating tastes.

I didn't see any currently listed, but you could always email them

 

[beatusb]

I have traps but I do not feed them ff as they are too small except for the youngest traps. The FF are too small to triger them.

You may want to look into pitcher plants in addition to the others recommended already.

 

[josh_r]

Utricularia and genlisea are some of my favorites! Most of them are fairly easy to grow and quite rewarding. The utricularia have orchid like flowers. Some species of utricularia are difficult to grow so do some research before purchasing a species. Great starter species would be livida or sandersonii.

I do have a ridiculous amount of cobra lillies and their seeds if anyone is interested in a trade. The parent plants send out runners and they spring up all sorts of new babies. I could definitely spare a few.

Josh