Lee Gentry's Carnivorous Plant Garden

This webpage is devoted to Carnivorous Plants. These plants are also called Insectivorous Plants, and cp for short.

Supplies and prices ( here are the supplies I have used in my setup ) :

Scotts sphagnum peat moss 8 dry quarts $3 at Home Depot

• Distilled Water $0.89/1 gallon at Walgreens
• Maxi Lampi Model #5318 27" 20 watt $20 at Home Depot
• General Electric 24" 20 watt fluorescent light tube plant/aquarium Wide Spectrum $5 at Home Depot
• Intermatic Lamp & Appliance Timer 2 On/Off Daily settings $5 at Home Depot
• 4' Wooden shelf $15 at Michael's Craft Store
• Play sand 1/3 cubic foot/$2.50 at K-Mart
• 18 4" plastic pots @ $0.89 each at Wal-Mart
• 3 3' plastic trays @ $2.99 each at Wal-Mart

Tissue Culture:

I recieved my Tissue Culture kit July 16th. It came with a sample flasked plant, and mine, happily, was a Darlingtonia californica! The tissue culture kit was shipped from U.K. on July 7th and it got here July 16th. I would recommend getting the tissue culture kit. It comes with 20 tubes with already prepared medium in them, 1 tube with a sample flasked plant, 1 refill good for 40 flasks, and instructions. Tissue culture is when you take a small piece of a plant leaf, rhizome, whole seed, etc. and regenerate new plants from that small sample. If tissue is taken from the plant, the plant in tc from that tissue sample has the same DNA as the plant it is taken from. You can order a kit and get instructions from the link below.I will post information on my experiments later on.

Tissue culture info, and kits

Experiments:
• Seed Germinating experiment

Experiments coming soon:
• Using Superthrive: fertilizer said to be used on cp
• Building my Terranium
• Tissue culture: will do a write up next year

Places to order seeds and plants:

Cook's Carnivores Where I got 6 plants, 1 packet of seed, and some seedlings. GREAT quality and prices!

• Cherryhill Carnivorous plants Specializes in Sarracenia
• Email Eric Green Where I got 4 pinguicula lusitanica plants, 1 Drosera cistiflora plant, and 6 packets of seed

Places to order seeds and plants:

Triffid Park CP Place to order cp, and in vitro cp 



Mailing Lists:

My Carnivorous Plant mail list Email me at [email protected] with subscribe cp-talk in the subject line

• Peter Cole's CP Tissue culture mail list Email Peter Cole at [email protected] with subscribe cptc-L in the subject line
• Great CP mail list Email [email protected] with subscribe cp in the message
• Great TC mail list

 
Want to sell/trade/give your CP seed?
 
Here are some growing instructions
 
My carnivorous plant information page
 
You can view my current growlist here
 
Special thanks to:

Jeff Dallas, Scott Vergara , Gabriel Verdugo, Doug Osman, David Dewey, Ron Sbragia, Mike Mullaney

 
 

Visit My Atlanta Botanical Garden Picture Page!

 

Look at some CPers' pictures

Click here!  
Coming Soon:
• More growing information
• More plant information
• More tissue culture information
• And always more plants/seeds/seedlings/seed sprouts on my growlist!
• Much more! Any ideas? Email me!
 



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Page Updated on 10/16/97 By: Lee Gentry

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