Thursday, October 11, 2012

New chenille growth


 Chenille has new growth. She almost died because I forgot to water her for a day and a half and she was all dried up. I lost all my red fuzzies but with an IV of water everyday shes now sprouting new growth. She's also living inside now, on a permanent basis. Although she remains bed-ridden on the shelf, I'm hoping she can return to hanging next spring.
 My Dalia's delight continues to amaze me with her transition. By far the most interesting and pleasing plant I have. She appears to have completely metamorphosed. What was once a dark red plant with tiny pitchers is now a gorgeous green, red, and white pitcher plant with detail as if an artist painted her.
I brought dente inside for a bit, but he'll go back out tomorrow. He's dormant I'm fairly sure. See you next spring!
My Nepenthes has three little pitchers, I'm wondering if they will grow this winter indoors. Nepenthes is also in bed next to Chenille (different pots obviously) with a distilled water IV

Friday, October 5, 2012

Fly in the oreophila

A video of the fly oreophila caught today

Been a while




Nothing of note has happened to the plants, so I haven't really been writing, but two days ago I saw that my Dalias Delight had totally blossomed! Dente continues to be prolific, and my oreophila caught a hornet AND fly today! They duked it out, the fly being killed by the hornet in the hornets feeble attempt at escape, followed by the hornet succumbing to exhaustion a few minutes later. The whole ordeal probably lasted around 5 minutes. Nepenthes and sundew are now living inside. I had to trim them. Nepenthes has 2 baby pitchers, hoping they will grow, but its almost winter so perhaps not.