I wanna get spagnum growing like this. In my grow tent, Highland grow tent. How can I achieve this

I’ve ordered over 30 nepenthes and some plants from them. Every single one has been packed with care, their customer service is legit the fastest I’ve ever had and ALWAYS gets back to you to trouble shoot or fix errors whenever i’ve reached out. Once I received the wrong plant and it was delivered within the week. I’ve asked for problems with seeds and they ENCOURAGE you to reach out for questions about plants or unknown abnormalities. They don’t just don’t sell plants they WANT you to succeed.

Heres 3 of the newest pitchers from them!

The nepenthes is already filled with ants!

Made a huge mess of it after repotting.. just spend almost 45 minutes meticulously cleaning the dirt of the plants with a q-tip 😅 Never reported a plant in my life. Quite happy with the results 😍

I don’t usually have many flies in my house. I get a lot of small moths when someone opens the door to go in or out during the warmer months. I have bright lighting everywhere because I keep LOTS of plants and animals and the VFT usually end up getting those. I recently got into carnivorous plants to take care of fungus gnats mainly, but ended up grabbing a very healthy VFT at Trader Joe’s. I added it to my bog and it’s done well. I discovered a very small cricket had been thrown in with my large ones for my Beardie so I pulled down my bog from its top shelf to potentially give it to my VFT, if I saw it wasn’t currently working on any other bugs. To my surprise, this MONSTER of a cricket who is already long gone, was “staring” at me, stuck inside of a trap. I’m incredibly impressed that this trap managed this but also, a little concerned. I’ve read that they’re only supposed to be given bugs 1/2-3/4 the size of the trap. Will they be alright?

This is my second year having her, and this summer I let her grow outside where she caught tons of wasps! It’s October in Canada now and I don’t trust the winter frost so she’ll be fridged again.

But last year she mainly had fruit flies which digested fairly quickly. Now, I still see a ton of wasp gunk in her traps. Most guides recommend trimming dead pitchers but i don’t see posts on this sub about emptying full pitchers prior to fridge dormancy.

Is it safe for me to empty her pitchers, before wrapping her up in sphagnum, and spraying sulfur on her like normal?

Thanks!

Back in, I want to say springtime, I decided to dip my toes into Helios. And while I can say it has put on new growth, it’s really only spread, and grown more pitchers. I’ve seen pics online that are usually only one ~three ish pitchers but they’re way way bigger.

My guess is that I didn’t do enough research and picked something that stays tiny, but then again I don’t know hence why I’m asking here.

So if my particular variety can get big, what’s the estimated time for it growing bigger pitchers?

Cephalotus “Behemoth”… 2x Drosera Hercules, 2 Stylidium Debile, and of course, a phat sack of Nutricote 360… looking fantastic after a 3,000 mile journey to CA. Stoked on the Behemoth as my other one has been on the struggle bus after my house sitter nearly killed my other one. Fun fact: Stylidium Debile (trigger plant) is a “protocarnivorous” plant… sometimes it murders… sometimes, it doesn’t.

A few weeks ago I posted about swapping seeds. I'm fortunate to report it was both a fun and fruitful endeavor.

I just wanted to share the results of it as well as my little collection.

Here's my little germination & acclimation station and bug biting friends.

How does everyone prepare and set up their Venus Fly Traps and Sarracenia for winter? I know some keep them outside year round, so I'm not talking to you guys.

I'm talking about those who keep them indoors around 70-75 degrees for most of the time (all the time I've had them).

I just put mine out in an unheated shed yesterday while it's still slightly warmer so they can slowly get into the cold.

I have an outdoor wifi Hygro-Thermometer from Govee out there so I can monitor temps as well.

Just wondering what everyone else does and if my strategy is good.

Thanks!

Drosera Rotundifolia and Intermedia

Hi everyone, my drosera seem to have gotten droopy over the course of one day and one is sprouting white fuzz like dandelion and the other seems to be preparing for hibernation.

Do they look ok? I'm new to carnivorous plants so I'm not sure if this is normal 😅

So currently ive had an open leaf for weeks, now theres 2 leaves, and both arent even starting to inflate the lil nubs. The plant always gets ideal humidity and gets a good duration and strength of growlight. did some research on what to do about this on Reddit and i saw people recommending spraying the nubs with distilled water. Just wanting to know if thats effective or not.

If it is, i would like to know how many times a day must i spray the nubs, and until when must i keep doing this? (till the nubs start inflating?)

(If it helps, the plant is a Nepenthes viking x veitchii)

I have three Vfts that are growing and doing well. I really don't want them to go into dormancy, but I know I need to do it. I also have a small one I saved from the death box from Home Depot. It's perking up already by giving it a lot of light. Could I focus on its growth and not let it go dormant this year?

I noticed this brownish spot on the second to top leaf on my ventrata, I'm not sure what it means, if it's normal or anything I need to be worried about?

Woke up to a dense spider web on my sundew. Is this from spider mites or just a regular spider web?