I'm da newbie of all newbie
 

hi all, I'm C Way, I'm totally new to this hobby, fall in love with carnivorous plant long long long long time ago, but have yet to own any yet, so, I'm consider as the newbie of all newbie since I'm totally blank to what I'm in love with for such a long time, I would appreciate if any senior around is kind enough to guide me around and I am looking foward to start with one as soon as possible, thanks a lot:smile:

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Welcome to Petpitcher, C Way. Don't worry, you will get more carnivorous plants. There's a lot of experienced members that can help you.

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Welcome! What kinds of carnivorous plants are you interested in?

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hi, I'm in love with all, but would like to start with something that are suitable for newbie since I've no plan of destroying any of these wonderful plant:smile:

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Welcome C Way.Hope you get a lot of plants for new year!

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thanks for all the welcome:smile:
I do wish to start, but in the slowly and steady way, not going to rush into it:smile:
wish you all can recommend some plant for beginner:smile:

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The easiest beginner plants are N. x ventrata and N. x Miranda. You can find them in almost every nursery.

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Welcome............Somebody go donate one to him hahaha

Ken

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Hi C way, hope your collection will start soon.

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thanks for the warm welcome again,

to plantover, thanks for the recomendation

to kentosaurs and cpnut, thanks, hope to get one in this 2 days since I'm having my most free time yet have nothing to do:laugh:

after browsing here and there in this forum, I'd say dionaea muscipula, pinguicula, byblis, drosera caught my eye the most, any recomendation where I can get those easy one in near my place(puchong, selangor, malayisa)? thanks again:smile:

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Try buying from members. They may have extra plants for sale.

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Hey, welcome, C'way! So you stay in Puchong? Is it bandar kinrara? Well, if you want to go into nepenthes first, then nepenthes miranda, ventrata and sometimes gracilis is most easiest to find in any local nursery. Don't worry, your grow list will start soon!

I am currently trying to propagate lots of drosera spathulata through leaf cuttings. I will give some to you for free when the become more mature. ;) Will send a private message to you when they are ready. You have my word!

Again welcome! Hope your list will grow! By the way, what plants are you interested in?

Cheers

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Wah edward since you so kind you should donate to me :D........Anyways talking bout leaf propagation my wooly sundew has to take up the whole plant and peel off the whole leaf with a little base in it unlike other sudews.

Ken

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Hi C Way, you'll soon find that with all the nice helpful peeps around here you'll learn your way up in no time ....and also the addiction that comes with it :laugh:

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wow, thanks a lot, an accurate guess, yes I am, in bandar kinrara puchong, but I'm not familiar with the places around me though:laugh: since I've left puchong for 11 years and is back here for only 2 busy years, basically I'm more into aquatic plant since I'm raring fish, have been addicted to these carni plant since the first time i saw them in cameroon highland:smile:. so where are you from? a lot to learn from you before getting those plant from you to avoid unnecessary death of these plant.

to the rest, thanks for the warm welcome, i do feel the friendliness here:smile:

Re: I'm da newbie of all newbie
 

Hi there, welcome to petpitcher... Hope you enjoy yours time in here...

CHEERS...

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If your growing aquatic plants, you may try growing Utricularia. Its an underwater carnivorous plant. But I have no experience growing it.

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Planted tank lover may know there is a new variety plant that introduced --> Chendol plant AKA U. graminifolia. It is 1 of CPs!!!!

Beside that, I think you may come accross U. gibba when you brought new plant from fish shop too.

WELCOMe to converting process... Im planted tank lover too, but, now, more concentrate on CPs... :tongue:

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haha, has just browse through google, i have u. gibba, but don't really like it since it curl all over every where, i do not know that it is cp, lol, bout the u. graminifolia, i have never saw it before, but I'm not into aquatic plant that much, I'm into the fish, aquatic plant just a natural place for them to hide, not planning to let the plant eat my fish fries:laugh:

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Well, its more like the fish will eat utrics!! By the way, C way, I am staying in sentul. :tongue:

Welcome again! Maybe you can start of with some neps. There is a man called Fauzi who sells tons of neps!! Plus, he stays nearby in KL. Check out his website:-

www.dapat.net/4zeplant

Of course, there are also other CP sellers, but Fauzi is the nearest in KL and I think the best nep seller.

Cheers

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wow, thanks for the recomendation, any cp player from puchong??? I'll get lost even in puchong, so don't mention bout kl as I'll be missing for few days:laugh:, unless by lrt

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Well, I have a LRT station near my house, so if you wanna meet me, it could be possible. There is a guy who JUST started growing CPs like you, only has a VFT and a drosera. He is not a member of the forum, but he is my friend and also staying in bandar kinrara.

Welcome AGAIN.

Cheers

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wow, then I'm damn lucky, because I won't get lost while looking for you:2thumbup:, better not go kacau your friend since he is not in the forum:laugh:

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Sorry for the late welcome but Welcome to Petpitcher!!!!:tongue:
If you're still looking for CP's try contacting CP_Unlimited,
but he might not reply cause he's in vacation.Here is he's "menu"for selling CP's https://forum.petpitcher.net/showthread.php?t=1165
And........what is your avatar?Mutated nep of some sort?Like a cross between masked rider and a nep.

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Hi Edward

See advertising again lol how much you got paid this time?? :p

Anyways well suprisingly you actualy have a CP already lol.........Where did you get it and how do you grow it without algae in your tank.I myslef also have a small glass tank for fishes no plants but it has swordtails tetras and some tetra looking fish which is grey and black....The tank always seems to grow algae on the glasses...Any tips on preventing it?

Ken

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there are certain kind of aquatic creature will solve the problem, some go for sucker fish, some go for chemical(all sort of anti-thingy), for me i prefer aquatic snail, cause it grows fast and reproduce fast, but it will end up eating the trap of the u. gibba, so it is up to your personal preferance:smile:

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I once bought those fish which suck the glass and they even died lol.....My other fishes are doing good and it just somehow dcided to die......

Ken

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lol, thanks for the recommendation, will need more research before I get started, I'm too blur to start directly:laugh:

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Thats a Predator unmasked. The ugly alien that is armed with cool gadgets and fought Aliens.

WElcome AGain......

Cheers

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I never watched that show.......And yea i suspected it was that.

Ken

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by the way, where can i get low price plant for beginner and some knowledge bout those plants? preferably somewhere near puchong since my geographical knowledge is very bad:biggrin:

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Just go to almost any nursery and you will find a ventrata. Its cheap, I got 1 for RM12. Maybe some nurseries will sell them for RM20 + Its a very easy plant. Refer to this forum and ask questions if you don't know something. A lot of experts are in this forum. Try buying some books from this forum's bookstore. It benefits both the forum and you.

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Yeah, ventrata is an easy plant to grow. But it tends to become green and boring in LL conditions.

OKOK, I know you are confused by the word LL. It means lowland. Nepenthes grows in three zones. The zones are lowland, intermediate and highland. Highland is cold, intermediate is between highland and lowland, and lowland is the temperature of the place we are living.

Sungai buloh has lots of plants, but very few has superb quality neps.

Cheers

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wow, thanks for the info, is there any topic that guide newbie in term of short forms being used here? my place is hill side with some reserve jungle around, preparing to see or to face some landslide disaster:laugh:, does it consider as intermediate or lowland???

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Well, is your hill high? How is the temperature?

Cheers

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depends,
hot weather-almost the same as every where, can fry egg on the floor
cool weather-cooler
rainy day-similar to cameroon highland, lemon tea become ice lemon tea
rainy day with strong wind plus a thunder-chilling and some times soft roof flying away...and my tv habis because of the storm:laugh:

Re: I'm da newbie of all newbie
 

Hey C Way, how to you put and move that ****roach or whatever it is in the "I'm a new newbie"?

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Hey........why there is some stars in my word??I didn't put that?

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Hi

Well if you do stay by a hillside still most probally its in lowland conditions just maybe slightly cooler and higehr humidity...Most highland neps/nepenthes will produce smaller or innatractive pitchers under lowland conditions..As for intermediates in my own opinion they are the most troublesome to grow them into optimum conditions since hardly anyone ever creates an intermediate greenhouse or an intermediate terrarium...Its either lowland or highland..But intermediates will do good in both lowland and highland most of the time.

Ken

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hi, sorry ya, i dun get what you mean:confused:

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He means that insect crawling at your signature. The C Way I'm a new newbie section.

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oic, get that, i copy the image somewhere, then dunno add link or direct copy paste, highlight the whole thing then click img button...i guess that is the process...pardon my lousy memory:blush:

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Well, you remind me of Fauzi's nursery. You have a very high temperature gap, it seems. Intermediate plants should do well, I think. Plus, VFTs can tahan the weather and Darlingtonias do well to, although it isn't a beginners plant:tongue:

Cheers

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Ok, the "****roach" appears because the word "c o c k" has been baned on the forum. Therefore, even if you key in "c o c k r o a c h" the system will deleted the word "c o c k" and replace it with "****"

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Ooohhh, so I better use another word for c-o-c-kroach. Maybe lipas.....:smile:

Cheers

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oic, then I'll better start off with what you will be giving me later on, and from there keep on expending, hopefully all these cp can help me solve my mosquitos problem other than fulfiling my admiration towards them:smile:

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https://forum.petpitcher.net/image.ph...ine=1230305606 hahahah I also copy and paste.I like that!