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Hello everyone! i am edward and i'm from kuala lumpur, malaysia of course. i'm a REAL newbie and i only have a venus flytrap and a sarracenia purpurea. Tryin to get more...........:1thumbup:

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Hi edward. Welcome to Petpitcher. Be careful of the 'venom' of CPs. Once they 'poison' you there's no cure. Never mind if you don't have much plants. It will grow. I started here with a N. x ventrata only. BTW you don't need to type your whole address for your location.

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Hi Edward

Welcome to the forum.Actually don't have to put your location that detailed but its fine.One of the first time i heard people in KL starting wif sarrs and VFTs instead of a nep since neps are more common around our areas.So where you got your plants??

Ken

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Hi Edward,
A warm welcome to Petpitcher. You are the second person from Jalan Kolam Air. Hope you get whatever info you want here. There are many people here who are willing to give you their helping hands. Last but not least, welcome to the world of CP.

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Hi Edward,

Just wondering how you got to know about this place. I think you're better than a pure newbie as you even know the name of your Sarra. Great start!

I would also like to officially welcome you to the wonderful world of CPs. Hope you'll benefit from the discussions by our CP buddies here. :)

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Welcome Edward.

Trying to get more plants?? Your first advise here, slowly. Eventually you'll be overflow with cps from the giveaways, sale and trade here.

Aaron, Edward is asking us over to drink tea with him ma. That is why he put full address. Tonight okay Edward, I live Jasmine. I'll dream over to your place at about one.

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Welcome Edward.........hey, you started on CPs with a similiar plant like me......the VFT ! still one of my fav CPs.....

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Welcome to the forum, they are great bunch of guys.

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Hello Edward, welcome to the carnivorous plants forum. Enjoy your stay here and do post questions or discussions if you need any help related to CP. There are many sifu here . Lets continue to spread the CP poison:1thumbup:

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Thank you everyone. Erm......never mind of my address. I'll keep that in mind.

I bought my flytrap about one and a half month ago. My friend in my school has CPs and I got interested. My plant was divided from his mother plant. Now my plant is growing well in a 3 inches pot. My flytrap is pretty small, only 4 cm in diameter, largest leaf is less than 1 cm. Currently, I'm having a problem with it, everyone may refer to the dionaea section to see whats the prob.

As for my s. purpurea, I only got it last thursday. Largest pitcher 6-7 inches tall. Growing fine for the moment.

thanks david for the compliment. i made a huge research since I got my CPs. You don't want to know what my parents said when i researched on CPs..........

well, i may be getting some CP seeds soon. Not confirmed what plant but may be pings, darlingtonia, drosera and more sarracenias. By the way, do any of you know where to buy CP soil? I seem to have a problem with finding the soil.

I hope I can learn from all of you! Soon, i'll be a CP expert! REARGHHH!!! hehehe, joking........

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Welcome to the forum Edward. You will most likely need to mix up your own soil mix. I will leave it to members from your area to suggest the best places to buy what you need but a good basic mix that works for most CP's is a 50:50 mix of peat moss and coarse sand.

Good luck with the Darlingtonia if you get them. They can be tricky for growers inyour climate as they require cool roots. Warm to hot soil temps are often fatal. Please post for advise when you get seed as some species (Sarra and Darlintonia amongst others) require stratification before they will germinate. I am sure you will find this forum useful and have your collection growing in no time. Cheers.

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Edward, grow drosera first. They are the easiest. Then sarracenia followed by ping and finally the hard darlingtonia.

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Ok, everyone, its time for me to go. I really enjoyed today. never going to forget this moment. Thanks for the contribution to my venus flytrap, aaron. Bye!

cheers

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PS: thanks for the advise over growing the CPs. I'm not afraid of tackling darlingtonia!

Bye really, this time.

cheers

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I'm germinating darlingtonia californica. So far the tap root is emerging but very very little.

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oh thats good. Darlingtonia can be a stubborn plant to germinate i heard. how long did it take your seeds to germinate those tap roots?

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1 week. The taproots just came out of the seed. Its just 1/3 of the seed. Very little. Maybe another week before it grows leaves. darlingtonia is one of the fastest germinating CPs.

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do you stratify your darlingtonia seeds in the refrigerator?

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It came stratified already.