Carnivourous plant displays!

stevebradford said:
Disaster!!

My sundew display caught thrips from our basil I think on another self :mad: I was dabbing them off the plants with a Q-tip dipped in 96% Ethel alcohol. like an idiot I used the same jar I water with for the alcohol. I had a couple drinks (not the 96%) and dumped about 1cup of the alcohol right into the centre. :eek: I realized right away, grabbed it and flushed it throughly with water but the damage was immediate. :( Good news is I think all the sundews will make it but it sure looks like hell right now and I probably still have bugs..


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thrips and scales are my biggest enemies, world war 3 happens everyday between me and them. I come out victorious most of the time.
 
I hate these pests with passion.
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The wife is into succulents and as you guys probably know every succulent you buy from the store comes with an eco system of mealy bugs. I actually find they are easy to control and we don’t have any problems with them. One will pop up once and a while especially when we get a new plant. When I see one on a succulent I will mist the plant with 96% Ethyl alcohol in a spray bottle till all the succulents surfaces are saturated without getting too much on the soil. instant death for the bugs they don’t come back from that and the succulents don’t seem too mind at all. It’s too bad carnivourous plants definitely don’t like that.
Thrips are new to me but they don’t like alcohol. They seem easy to control on tougher plants. They got into our Oregano so I blasted it with the 96%, the plants all happy and bug free for months now. On the sundews they seem to show up lower down or on the under side of the leaf. A wipe with a qtip soaked in Ethyl alcohol on that part avoiding the mucilage part doesn’t hurt any of larger sundews. I worry they are nibbling away at some of the smaller ones under where I can’t see or pick them like Drosera burmanii. It might be a good time to bomb my display with a pesticide now since it’s looking rough anyway?
 
Giving this Mixed CP pot thing a go! :D
I've struggled growing Sundews in high humidity / terrias. So I’m trying the room temp trick with a dome.
Ideally i wanted these guys in glass cylinder vase so my light sits on top but I had to make shift a mini bio dome

thanks to Carson for these Spats, Caps and fly traps
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Giving this Mixed CP pot thing a go! :D
I've struggled growing Sundews in high humidity / terrias. So I’m trying the room temp trick with a dome.
Ideally i wanted these guys in glass cylinder vase so my light sits on top but I had to make shift a mini bio dome

thanks to Carson for these Spats, Caps and fly traps
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So I converted into this mini tank as I’ve got no where to hang the light as off yet
That plastic container would of been no good due to the green house affect from Willy mention as the light sitting on top etc and is too low.
Ideally I’d like light a little higher above the plants in this little plastic tank but
Good thing it has a big air whole on the top which will allow the tank not to get too hot from Wilied and allow fresh air in and out.

The dews are bit ragged from the delivery but I’m hopping week under the light will start to see life again. Going to make this a community mix CP zone with dews, pings and Fly traps if I can nail this.
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You spend a lot more time staring at your plants when they are displayed in a mixed pot. I spend a half hour before work every day watching my plants.
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Had a couple thoughts:

One that I think red sphagnum moss is awesome but it washes out and takes away from the striking red sundews on green sphagnum. I might pull it for a different display and swap in some neon green Chilean sphagnum

Two that I don’t like white pots but a dark pot like this in the sun gets too hot. I put a thermometer in that pot last summer and the soil temperature gets up to the high 30’s. I can’t imagine temperate plants enjoy that.
 
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