[corey872]

Lol - yeah I need a couple of those to set by the front door! I was actually browsing to see what was available and came across a shop that looks to be just a state over. Seems to be quite a selection and lots of info! I may have to splurge and get a plant or two and give it another shot. Looks like their "XL" plant can get up to ~2 inch traps. Might be enough to nip a finger! lol

Venus Flytraps for sale at FlytrapStore.com

Buy Venus Fly Traps and other Carnivorous Plants at FlytrapStore.com

www.flytrapcare.com

(standard disclaimer - no monetary interest and I can't vouch for service, customer care, etc - just a link I found on the net!)

 

[Hairazor]

^ Now I am gonna have Fly- Trap envy, heehee. If you get some we want pics

 

[corey872]

Well, nostalgia got the better of me, I pulled the trigger on some plants, so we will see! I'll post some pics - If nothing else, will be a nice set of memories as they wither and die.

In reading up on the care, it seems like they are much hardier than I was led to believe... in the days prior to the internet, reading only the little slip of paper that came with the plastic cup. Seems like I was led to believe they needed to be in high humidity like a terrarium, and not necessarily much light...but that doesn't really seem to be the case. Seems like they to like wet roots, but also tolerant of moderate to full sun. Maybe this will spur me to finally set up some rain barrels, too.

 

[corey872]

USPS has delivered! I'm going to try fly trap farmin' this summer!

I got a 'DC XL '- hoping to get some really big traps out of the deal and a 'Wally' - because it seemed to have neat coloring of red inside the traps with the classic green outside - and also fairly large traps. Also took a chance on the 25 babies for $25. They are labeled "Red Cup Trap"...so we'll see what the dice roll holds there once they get bigger.

Anyway - they are out in the garage now. Waking them up from their 3 day trip in the dark USPS box under some fluorescent light for starters, then plan to start getting them out in some sun a little later in the month.

DC:

Wally

Look pretty scary until you put a pencil in the frame for scale! lol Well, hopefully they will grow up later this year!

 

[RoxyBlue]

Venus flytraps are cool!

We have some irises coming up and blooming near our mailbox. I planted them back in the fall.

 

[Hairazor]

Corey872 healthy looking bunch of traps

Roxy nice Iris

 

[PrettyGhoul]

Ten years ago I bought two Pineapples, bogo, at Publix, The manager at the time told me I should grow pineapple plants from the tops so I did. I started to root them in buckets and then one disappeared. I thought an animal took it. The manager warned me possums love, love pineapples and will steal the fruit ; so I thought maybe a possum got it I planted the other one in front of my kitchen window and waited and waited and waited. I read up on pineapple plants on YouTube (24 months for a fruit) I fertilized once a year...nothing. The plant got bigger and bigger but no fruit and no runners (like the experts on YouTube said would happen). So I gave up. Every few months or so I would tell it what a crappy plant it was and tell it I should just pull it up from it's unproductive roots, but I didn't. I'd fertilize it and say "come on baby give me a pineapple:". but it didn't.

Yesterday (Friday, my day off) I went outside to check some solar lights, outside the kitchen window, and there it was: TEN years later: a tiny little pineapple on top of my sole surviving pineapple plant. I was so excited I SCREAMED "You made a pineapple!!!!!" I then ran and told my brother who was fixing my car window. He actually stopped to come look at the tiny pineapple, lol. I don't know why but it just occurred to me I need to take a picture and post of this pineapple miracle!! I need to put a fence around it too, to keep the possums away (they really do love pineapples!). I'm so excited! I have no idea why it took ten years but it has made me happy.

 

[PrettyGhoul]

I have to add...can you freaking believe it??!! Yesterday I kept going outside every hour to look at it and it was the first thing I checked out when I got home tonight. I have no idea how long it will take for the fruit to mature, it's just a tiny bulb now, I'm just amazed it's happening.

 

[Hairazor]

Yay for your pineapple PrettyG

 

[RoxyBlue]

 

[stick]

I am glad you told me that PG because I now know I have 7 more years before I will see one on the two pineapple plants that I have growing.

 

[PrettyGhoul]

Yay for your pineapple PrettyG
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Thank you HR!

 

[PrettyGhoul]

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TeeHee, I can't even tell you how much I love this, just makes me giggle.

 

[PrettyGhoul]

I am glad you told me that PG because I now know I have 7 more years before I will see one on the two pineapple plants that I have growing.

There needs to be a "YIKES" icon. Anyway: please don't be persuaded to not grow pineapples because of me or think they take a decade to produce a fruit. I took really bad care of that pineapple right from the beginning. At that time I was going through some horrible family things. Anyway, according to youtube experts, it should only take 2 years to produce a fruit. Hmm, you are going on three. Maybe it's Florida.

Mine is looking pretty perfect. I took about a dozen pictures of it. So goofy I know but I'm just so delighted with it.

 

[stick]

I have my pineapple planets in pots and when people come over they always say how big they are. It is too cold in the winter for them to stay outside here but they grow all winter long in the house. I put them on my porch in the summer. They are easy to grow.

 

[PrettyGhoul]

Stick, I have asked pseudo experts and they tell me pineapple plants in pots do indeed grow pineapples. It just may take awhile.

So...I'm basically going up to strangers and showing them pictures of my pineapple plant. That is how insanely happy I am about this happening. It turns out half the people I work with are growing pineapples in their yards and are amused at how crazy I have become over this. I'm also learning a lot. It turns out store bought pineapple tops can take 7 - 10 years to fruit (like mine did) sometimes two years in rare cases. Then they send out pups and that's when you get plants that grow pineapples every two years. Hardly seems worth it I know. Not stopping me from envisioning a yard full of pineapples, lol!!! Also, my Unit Manager is growing pink pineapple plants. She says they taste like lemonade but they only sell at a certain time of year and the sellers cut off the tops so you can't grow them. Sigh. So many pineapple details.

 

[PrettyGhoul]

Just had to add him.