I have a couple of Drosera that I rescued from an eventual dry death at my local Home Depot. I love home depot but god help them if they ever hire someone who not only knows a thing or two about CP's but actually takes the initiative to give them the proper care. It's bad enough that I live in humidless So Cal. Well anyway... These lil boogers were seconds away from drying out into oblivion and I saw there there and figured, "What the hell!" If anything, I'd be out about $10 if they didn't make it.... Well, shit on a brick if they didn't make it!!! All I did was hydrate the heel out of them immediately Then after a couple of days, I keep moist but not soaking, I put them in some bright and semi-direct morning sun and I keep them in their provided greenhouse container that they both came in. They survived the winter (I can't remember when I got them but it hasn't been too long) and now one of them seems to be sprouting babies (or from what it seems to me to be, I mean they look just like Mommy, just in a wee smaller version). They seem to be sprouting from the tips of the dew leaves... Are those babies? Well, Of course you could only imagine my excitement, right? So, my next question is... I really want to transplant them,( I've got the CP transplanting itch, I'm tellin ya now!) I live in Los Angeles, it's Summer, about 70-80 degrees in the day, 50-60 or so at night. Can I transplant them now? What do I do? How do I do it? What do I need? I know all about what kind of water to use and about not fertilizing them... Anyone want to help me on this one? I'll make you all Goddess Parents! Thanks, Greg :-)
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Re: My hearty lil Drosera...
Thu, June 3, 2004 - 11:45 AM
They're pretty hearty. They definitely DON'T need fertilization, just replant in some sphagnum moss, or a mix of moss & vermiculite. Make sure they are WELL soaked before planting so that the Drosera can get plenty of water to their roots after they've been transferred.
My cats decided one of my Sundews was a tasty treat, and proceeded to eat it down to its roots. After putting it on a HIGHER shelf, it sprang back to life pretty readily, and not it's going great gangbusters. They really are hard to kill. -
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Re: My hearty lil Drosera...
Thu, June 3, 2004 - 12:39 PMThanks loads.... I'm going to try and sneak aways from my life and sit down and read some more of "The Good Book" *hehe*... and I'm going to replant this little beast and make it proliferate beyond belief...lol Thanks, -Greg :-)
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Re: My hearty lil Drosera...
Mon, June 14, 2004 - 7:02 PM"I love home depot but god help them if they ever hire someone who not only knows a thing or two about CP's but actually takes the initiative to give them the proper care."
From personal experience, the home depot is going down hill. Sure you will be able to get a great deal there, but don't expect to get any help.
I worked in the nursery while putting my self through college. When I started they hired quality people and payed them well. One of my friends who had graduated with a degree in horticulture desperately was trying to get a job as a seed sales rep., but was being turned away for not having any nursery experience. She was about to be dropped from her parents insurance plan so I told her to apply at the depot. She asked for less than what I was making and they refused to hire her. Instead they hired like 3 young guys for $8 an hour and I had to train their stupided asses. I was pissed cuz my last raise sucked and had nothing to do with my job performance.
Sorry had to vent, I know that had nothing to do with CP. -
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Re: My hearty lil Drosera...
Mon, June 14, 2004 - 7:32 PMAaahhhhhhhh, that's funny.... Uh gee, thanks for the help... I'll see if I can apply that info somehow to my Drosera needs....lol j/k *wink*
But yeah, I totally agree with you.... Depot was once the shit... no it's going to shit!!! Don't worry, I've been doing my share of ejamacatin' to who ever I see in that HD nursery who might look even remotely as if they my care. There's power in numbers!!!
-G- :-)
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Re: My hearty lil Drosera...
Mon, June 14, 2004 - 7:36 PMthat seems to be the way every company is doing it these days.
it seems like no matter how qualified, and even when I put on my normal costume, I cannot get hired places. they just want warm bodies that do what management tell them to do. -
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Re: My hearty lil Drosera...
Mon, June 14, 2004 - 7:39 PMYeah, I know.... What's up with that? No more sole proprietorships anymore... it's all corporation now!?!?!
Ok, I'm officially changing this post since I created it to... "What's up with that?"
Down with the Corporation Burgeois Pigs!!!
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Re: My hearty lil Drosera...
Tue, June 15, 2004 - 3:38 PM
If I see carnivorous plants at Home Despot or Lowe-Down's, I always tell the workers there that they should be watered with distilled water. They always give me a WTF? look (well, if I'm lucky. It's usually a STFU look).
And I don't blame 'em. They don't pay them enough money to go fetch distilled water from god knows where.
Still, it's patently ridiculous to sell plants that are going to up and die in a couple of days on a consumer who treat them like yet another potted vine. They're easy to grow, but also a bit fussy. -
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Re: My hearty lil Drosera...
Tue, June 15, 2004 - 3:56 PMWell all the plants there are lost leaders, meaning that there is a 0% mark-up on the plants. Thats why they are such a great deal, most nurseries double the whole sale cost. So the management doesn't give an f.... about the plants. I throw thousands of dollars of plants away each week and nobody says a thing to me. Too bad they all get spray painted orange and put in the trash compactor, or else I'd have a nursery on the side.
When people tell me what to do with the plants I do give them the WTF look, and them offer them a job. However though most people think they are really smart and are talking to someone who doesn't know a damn thing. Like this lady told me the other day I needed to move all of these plants, because she went to a nursery in Palm Springs and they told her that these particular plants were shade plants. I was thinking yeah in Palm Springs where it gets over 100 degrees, but not here next to the beach where we hardly get a day over 74 degrees.
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Re: My hearty lil Drosera...
Tue, June 15, 2004 - 6:23 PMyou will never get any one who knows what the f is going on at home depot. they pay shit, so only an dumbass would work there. beyond that they're on the aflcio blacklist because they violate so many workers rights laws. i wont go to crazy talking your ear off, but they're fucking evil. -
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Re: My hearty lil Drosera...
Tue, June 15, 2004 - 8:30 PMAnd to think that I actually saved my "Hearty Lil Drosera" from an emminent death! *sigh* -
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Re: My hearty lil Drosera...
Wed, March 30, 2005 - 11:06 AMOur Home Depots don't even attempt to carry C.P.'s, but sadly Lowe's does. I used to work in a horitculture center and it hurts everytime I have to go to that store for a gallon of paint because those ill cared for plants are all up in my face. I do tend to be a bleedin heart and take at least the C.P.'s home (usually other plants too), but I have been sworn off doing that anymore (room mate would like to actually live in the living room, instead of bushwhack his way around! ;) ).
There have been some I have had to battle to save, and one terrarium that had more mold in there than plant I think. It was really aweful. I feel *terrible* when they die so I once tried to get a job at Lowes. During the interview I was informed that I am over-qualified for the position and turned down. All I wanted was a crappy, part time 2nd job anyway so I told them to exploit me. It is "against company policy to hire people and pay them less than their worth". Riiiii-ght. -
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Re: My hearty lil Drosera...
Wed, March 30, 2005 - 1:53 PMyou would infect all the other workers. they don't want any smart people there to give any ideas to the ignorant fools that are supposed to be experts. in case you're wandering, home depot is even worse than lows.... they're on the aflcio black list.
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