Kleio's Evil Cultivars

My N. alata and peltata's new pitchers!
Maintaining their humidity plus the right amount of light will definitely trigger them to grow more pitchers. With morning and afternoon misting of collected rain water.

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So pretty, yet so deadly (to the insects)

N. mirabilis (Hot Lips)

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Commonly known as the Pitcher Plants.

Cultivar: Nepenthes mirabilis (Hot Lips)

1st photo: actual plant
2nd photo: mature plant reference (ctto)

Scarification in botany involves weakening, opening, or otherwise altering the coat of a seed to encourage germination. Scarification is often done mechanically, thermally, and chemically.

Scarification, regardless of type, works by speeding up the natural processes which normally make seed coats permeable to water and air.

Now used chemical scarification on my freshly harvested Byblis liniflora seeds (left - one swimming in the cup). Used hydrogen peroxide and water to slowly make the seeds' coat soft to easily germinate once sown in sphagnum moss.

Updates soon on what will germinate first!
Will sell seed pods soon and will post it here! 💚

Photo: Dm. typical red

The Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) is a carnivorous plant native to subtropical wetlands on the East Coast of the United States in North Carolina and South Carolina. It catches its prey—chiefly insects and arachnids—with a trapping structure formed by the terminal portion of each of the plant's leaves, which is triggered by tiny hairs (called "trigger hairs" or "sensitive hairs") on their inner surfaces.

Habitat
The Venus flytrap is found in nitrogen- and phosphorus-poor environments, such as bogs and wet savannahs. Small in stature and slow-growing, the Venus flytrap tolerates fire well and depends on periodic burning to suppress its competition. Fire suppression threatens its future in the wild. It survives in wet sandy and peaty soils. Although it has been successfully transplanted and grown in many locales around the world, it is native only to the coastal bogs of North and South Carolina in the United States, specifically within a 100-kilometer (60 mi) radius of Wilmington, North Carolina. One such place is North Carolina's Green Swamp. There also appears to be a naturalized population of Venus flytraps in northern Florida as well as an introduced population in western Washington. The nutritional poverty of the soil is the reason it relies on such elaborate traps: insect prey provide the nitrogen for protein formation that the soil cannot. They tolerate mild winters, and Venus flytraps that do not go through a period of winter dormancy will weaken and die after a period of time.

They are full sun plants, usually found only in areas with less than 10% canopy cover. The microhabitat where it thrives is typically sparse with grasses, herbs, sphagnum, and often bare patches where there aren't enough nutrients for non-carnivorous plants to survive, or where fires regularly clear competition and prevent cover from forming. Thus, natural fires are an important part of its habitat, required every 3–5 years in most places for D. muscipula to thrive. After fire, D. muscipula seeds germinate well in ash and sandy soil, with seedlings growing well in the open post-fire conditions. The seeds germinate immediately without a dormant period.

Cultivation
Plants can be propagated by seed, taking around four to five years to reach maturity. More commonly, they are propagated by clonal division in spring or summer. Venus flytraps can also be propagated in vitro using plant tissue culture. Most Venus flytraps found for sale in nurseries garden centers have been produced using this method, as this is the most cost-effective way to propagate them on a large scale. Regardless of the propagation method used, the plants will live for 20 to 30 years if cultivated in the right conditions.

Cultivars
Venus flytraps are by far the most commonly recognized and cultivated carnivorous plant, and they are frequently sold as houseplants. Various cultivars (cultivated varieties) have come into the market through tissue culture of selected genetic mutations, and these plants are raised in large quantities for commercial markets.

HAPPY GROWING 🌱🌞🌧️🌄

Welcome to our new page!

Mainly about carnivorous plants such as Sundews (Droseras), Venus Flytraps (Dionaea muscipula), Pings (Pinguiculas), Pitcher Plants (Nepenthes) and many more in the future! We'll be selling soon! 🙏🏻

Read first and practice yourself in researching before acquiring.

Carnivorous Plants "Basic" Care Guide

3 Important Requirements:

1. Sunlight
2. Water with low nutrient content
3. Soil/substrate with low nutrient content

Sunlight ☀️🌤️⛅💡

Cp's (Carnivorous plants) need lots of sunlight in order to be healthy. Put your plants where they can receive the most sunlight all throughout the day. For newly acquired plant I advice that you should put it first where it only receives morning sun (between 6am to 10am) for about 3-5 days and slowly increasing the sunlight it receives until they are fully acclimatize. For those who are like me that has an indoor setup, you need to invest in high LED grow lights.

Color Temp: 5000-6500K
Lumens/Luminous Flux: 2500 and above

You can also use full spectrum growlights just make sure that the lumens are enough to met the needs of the plants. In acclimatizing your new plants using grow lights I always put them in a zip bag and close it for 3 days under the lights, after that I slowly open the bag half an inch or so (depends on how big your zipbag is) for a day and then opening them again with the same length day by day until you were able to fully open the bag.

Note: DO NOT use fluorescent/incandescent lights for they can burn your plants due to high temp plus high electricity consumption unlike LEDs.

Water Requirement 🌧️💦🚿🚰

You may need to invest in a Water TDS Meter in checking your water's ppm (particles per meter) since Cp's normally lives in bogs and swamps, they receive poor water nutrients.

Listed below are the required water for Cp's:

- Distilled Water
- Rainwater
- Reverse Osmosis water
- Aircon Water Runoff (if they are clean/well-maintained and the water directly pours to a clean storage)
- Tap water if your area has a good filtration system like some parts of Metro Manila that does not use any chemical in cleaning the water. That's why you need your TDS meter, around 50ppm below is tolerable.

Soil/Substrate 🌱⛰️🌄🏜️

When I started collecting Cp's I usually got them in sphagnum moss with perlite or cocopeat with perlite or silica sand (50/50)

Here are the one's you can use below:
- Dried/Live Sphagnum Moss
- Cocopeat
- Peat Moss
- Akadama (I use these with Pinguiculas only)
- Coco Chips/Husk (mostly used in Pitcher Plants)

For extra aeration:
- Perlite
- Pumice
- Lava rocks
- Silica Sand

Note: Wash them until the excess water from the substrate are below 50ppm then you're ready to repot them.

TIPS you can use along the road:

1.) For VFTs (Venus Fly Traps) please don't trigger the traps it can take them a while to recover the energy they used in closing their traps. Don't over feed them as well, since they are plants, the main source of their growth is light and water but you can feed them every once in a while (don't feed all traps, one/two traps will do). Let nature take its course since Cp's will never have a hard time catching their own meal.

2.) Maxsea Fertilizer is what Cp growers are using in giving your plants some extra love, but always use it with care. Mix it with distilled water and you should have a reading of 140ppm and below. Use it every two weeks so that the plants will not get overwhelmed with it. Note, this is a foliar fertilizer so don't use or mix it with the soil/substrate or else your plants will DIE.

3.) If you're using water tray method, always let it dry before filling it up again. Please clean the tray every week so that the accumulated minerals/tannins will be washed off. In filling up the water in the tray, always make sure that they are a quarter of the size of the pot (pot size matters) around 2-3cm or 1/4 of the pot's height. You can also do top watering carefully so that built-up minerals in the substrate will be washed out from the pot weekly.

4.) To increase humidity, you can use live sphagnum moss as toppings or use a humidifier (indoor) but just make sure to open it in a timely manner with a good air circulation because too much humidity can also cause root rot, molds or pests that thrive in a high humid area. You can put other non carnivorous plant around your collection but be careful when you water it and make sure to have good drainage.

5.) Invest in tools that can help you organize them and can also help in their growth.

Listed below are the tools that I use:
- Hygrometer (Temperature and humidity meter)
- Plant Nursery Boxes (used for planting seeds, for leaf pullings, isolated/quarantined plants for recovering from pests and such)
- Insulator/Aluminum Foam (can help as reflectors of light that will also help in extending the intensity/brightness of your grow lights)
- Sturdy Racks (wood, metal etc.,)
- Humidifier
- Recycled cups, plastic food storages, trays etc.
- Extra Substrate (you will never know when will you need to repot your plants in times of emergency)

Last thing to remember is to have a huge PATIENCE in growing them. They are not your average plants that needs constant watering, giving them fertilizers, moving/adjusting them from one place to another as such. Just let them be (Bahala ka dyan Method). Do your research in what's the best beginner CPs (we always suggest to grow Sundews first) then gradually challenge yourself in acquiring other types of cultivars/plants.

HAPPY GROWING! 🌞🌧️🌿🌱

Name : Pinguicula primuliflora

TAXONOMY
Family : Lentibulariaceae
Genus : Pinguicula

Pinguicula primuliflora (/ˌpɪˈŋgwɪkjələ ˌpɹɪmjʊləˈfloːɹə/), commonly known as the southern butterwort[1] or primrose butterwort, is a species of carnivorous plant belonging to the genus Pinguicula. It is native to the southeastern United States. The typical variety forms a white flower in blooming. Like other butterworts, it has sticky adhesive leaves which attract, capture and digest arthropod prey in order to supply the plant with nutrients such as nitrogen not found in the nutrient poor, acidic soil that it grows in. Its name derives from the fact it is usually the first one to flower in the spring.

Roots:
Like all Pinguicula, the roots are undeveloped, and are mainly used to absorb water and anchor the plant, nutrients are absorbed through carnivory.

Carnivory:
Pinguicula primuliflora, like all members of the family Lentibulariaceae, is carnivorous. Their leaves are covered with tiny hairs which secrete a mucilaginous liquid. This gives the leaves a wet appearance and is believed to attract insects in search of water. As soon as an insect lands on the leaves, it becomes ensnared in the mucilage; as it struggles, it gathers more of the liquid on it. The plant responds by secreting digestive enzymes that dissolve and digest the insides of the prey, creating a nutrient soup which the plant then absorbs. The leaves of P. primuliflora are green.

Flowers:
Pinguicula primuliflora has 5-petaled zygomorphic flowers. The plant is self-fertile, but must be pollinated to be fertilized.

Cultivation:
Pinguicula primuliflora is an ideal beginners first butterwort in cultivation. It is typically easy to grow, and does not require high humidity, nor extremely intense lighting to flower and create sticky, carnivorous leaves. It can be propagated by selfing, or, more effectively, through cross pollination with another plant. P. primuliflora has known to be quite the w**d in cultivation, it is not unusual to find many shoots coming out from the plant, which can eventually take over the pot and may need maintenance. P. primuliflora requires the basics of any carnivorous plant; it needs poor, acidic soil, such as 50/50 peat moss and perlite or horticultural sand mix, or pure sphagnum peat moss mix, with no potting soil or fertilizer. P. primuliflora, along with some other butterworts, can be grown in a tray of standing water (low minerals - distilled, rain water or reverse osmosis) to increase humidity and maintain soil moisture.

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