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    Pterygodium catholicum

    The ripening banana peel is used as a source of ethylene. Ethylene is released during bushfires and it's thought that some fire-dependant plants use ethylene as an indicator of fire. I guess that other fruit could be used but in Australia, bananas are relatively cheap and you use the peel and...
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    Pterygodium catholicum

    Berthold, So long as the tubers are large enough, they can be stimulated to flower by storing the dormant tubers in a bag with a banana peel for a week or two, similar to how you make the Australian species Leptoceras menziesii flower. They'll occasionally flower without it but not...
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    All in the family, three Pterostylis

    Interesting that you've said you're struggling with nutans. It's often recommended as a beginner plant but I've come across a lot of experienced Australian terrestrial growers who don't do well with it. I've only started having success with nutans after giving it more water than most of my other...
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    Pterostylis nutans

    Hakone, Your plant looks more like Pterostylis Nodding Grace (=curta x nutans) than nutans. The flowers of Pterostylis nutans bend over much more strongly than the flower in your photo.
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    Some CP pics

    Sounds fine for intermedia. Your Nep ampullaria is very cute. I wish I had the right temperature to grow that species.
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    Some CP pics

    It doesn't look like Drosera spathulata. What colour are the flowers? Given your location, there are tropical forms of Drosera intermedia (white flowers) so it is a possibility. It could also be Drosera nidiformis which has pink flowers.
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    Pterostylis nutans

    There's seed available on the terrestrial orchid forum's seed bank if you can get someone in Canada to flask it.
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    Why do people still collect?

    I don't know what the current state of play in the US is but I recall 10 years ago there was discussion on various forums about Lowes selling wild collected Cyp's, not to mention various public outings in the carnivorous plant community about a commercial nursery selling illegally collected...
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    Carnivorous Plant Help

    Paphioboy has given some good advice for treating the rot. As far as how you're growing the plants, it might be the angle of the photo but either your water level looks too high or your pots are too squat, particularly for your upright Sarras. Your plants also look like they're not getting...
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    Carnivorous Plant Help

    What is your humidity like? I find Sarra's aren't usually bothered by hot weather. My CP glasshouse regularly gets summer maximums into the high 30oC's to low 40oCs, occassionally hitting 50oC and my Sarra's don't seem to care. However, if you combine hot weather with low humidity and especially...
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    My first Ebay plant sale

    I usually upload multiple photos to an image hosting site like photobucket and embed the image links into the item description. Is there any advantage that you see in using a youtube slideshow rather than remotely hosted photo files?
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    Import permit for South Australia?

    The restrictions should just apply to fruit fly host material. See this link for a list of host fruits: http://www.gazette.vic.gov.au/gazette/Gazettes2011/GG2011S042.pdf#page=1
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    Carnivourous Plant Mega-Thread

    It's a shame that the restrictions on the trade of this species across US state borders has limited the availability of oreos in private collections. I find it to be one of the easiest and most vigorous Sarra species.
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    Carnivourous Plant Mega-Thread

    I grow Sarracenia, Darlingtonia, Dionaea, Drosera, and dribs and drabs of Pinguicula, Nepenthes, Cephalotus and Utricularia. I used to have a reasonably diverse collection of carnivorous plants but I've been downsizing a lot of it to focus on Nth American pitcher species, flytraps and tuberous...
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    Carnivourous Plant Mega-Thread

    I have Pitcher Plants of the Americas, which is an excellent book that is well worth the money. It's well written, has great photos and the layout is simple and easy to flip through. Detailed descriptions of form, range, habitat etc of all of the species including varieties, forms and major...
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    Pterostylis coccina

    Charles, Your biggest concern is getting them too shift their growing season by 6 months. I'm always happier if a plant is green than dormant. I'd be inclined to water it now (the cool weather is probably going to make it grow anyway) and try to keep it cool enough to keep it growing through...
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    Pterostylis coccina

    (I'll call them Diplodium in responding to this as it's so much easier) It depends on the normal flowering time for the species you're growing. Diplodium will flower from summer to winter depending on the species. Diplodium coccinum is summer-early autumn flowering so you need to push it into...
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    Pterostylis coccina

    They're Casuarina leaves. In Australia, Casuarina leaves are probably a more popular mulch for terrestrials than pine needles. I don't know if there's any real difference between using one or the other, though.
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    Pterostylis coccina

    Pterostylis coccina is one of the cauline greenhoods that was proposed to be split off into the genus Diplodium. Grows and multiplies as easily as other Pterostylis but needs to be watered a lot earlier in the growing season (mid-summer) to get a good flowering rate.
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    Thelymitra rubra

    The labellum (bottom petal) is reduced to looking like the other petals, the whole structure in the centre is the column.
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