Carnivorous plants and Tarantulas

Sounded ike a lovely spider. Have been thinking about getting a Brazillian black for their calm nature but knowing me, i would probably get a crazy exception lol 

Haha. The Haplopelma is certainly a step up from the red knee. I dont blame you for selling. I rather foolishly bought 3 indian ornamentals when 1st keeping spiders On opening the pots they came in, one literally teleported across my bedroom at the time.....I did manage to eventually catch it but I thought......there are limits that I can handle, so sold them pretty quickly to someone more used to that particular spider lol

I had a Mexican Red Knee, and i also rather foolishly took ownership of a Cobalt Blue. The latter i sold a year later. 

Has to be Truffle for my fave as she was my first and oldest tarantula - she was already 8 years when I got her back in 2015 and passed last year - so she was 17 (approx) when she died. She was as calm as anything and has helped several people to ease their fear over spiders. My St John Ambulance Cadets did a name draw for her and that's how she got the name Truffle - but her brown with golden flecks did actually make her seem a bit like a Ferrero Rocher chocolate lol.

M xx

Nepenthes are climbers, they will grow to several meters.

If you chop the top off I expect it will put out a side shoot from one of the leaf axils and create a new leader after a while.

Its maybe a leucophylla hybrid but not sure what the cross is. Likely a purpurea cross but not 100% on that either lol. It's a beautiful plant 

Yes, that's leucophylla. 

I think it feels good to have rescued something. I have just pruned the top off, hopefully it will be ok.

I have have lost my records of which varieties I have, leucophylla? 

Nice save with the plants. Usually get some bargains around september in the bargain bin.

They are exactly the type of spiders I like. Anything too fast or flicky, then I'm not as keen on them. I found flame knees particularly bad for flicking....

Haha i get the animals over plants thing. One good thing about A.I is that it'll tell you exactly how to care.for plants, which is a big help for me as I've killed a few due to not doing the correct things.

What was your favorite out of your spiders? Thats a cool list.

Have a good day yourself

I have a florida leucophylla. My favorite sarracenia by far

Here's the link. Not ordered mine yet but seems like a decent seller...

https://ebay.us/m/7f2xhC

They look happy little plants. :-)

The nepenthes will just keep growing and get large if you want it too.

Hi IndigoMandala.

I've kept quite a few tarantulas over the years - but only the slightly less dangerous ones lol.
I've had:
Chilean Gold Burst - Truffle
Chaco Golden Knee - Kiko
Mexican Flame Knee - Mystery
Mexican Red Knee - Buddy Holly aka Holly (thought she was female lol)
Chiapas Tiger - Ember
Avicularia Versicolour - Trixie
Plus many more.

I've not had one since my oldest one (Truffle) past away last year. I still have her tank and equipment - maybe one day I might get another tarantula, but I've got a lot of other things to work on first.

Plant wise - I've only had a Venus Fly Trap - which unfortunately didn't last long as I over watered it lol. I'm not that good with plants - give me a spider (or any other animal) anytime lol.

Have a lovely day.

Mweekie xx

Yes please to the link!...

Yes! I think the Sarracenia purpurea I have are native to Canada so need a cold overwinter. I haven't yet seen one of those large displays.

The sundew may have put the last of its energy into flowering, I have started to cut the new flowers off most things, especially the dionea.

The nepenthes are amazing but do need that extra work being inside.

I rescued these from a garden centre, they were half dead and being given away. Thriving now

Sarracenia leucophylla. It has pitchers with white lids veined in purple. Apparently it can grow up to 1 metre in height but mine is a much more manageable 30 cm. 

Wow that's cool. Which one do you have?  

Sarracenia have interesting flowers. The plants look like they won't be that gardt, but they can be frozen and buried is snow and survive. They have the at RHS Wisley in the rockery, plus there were quite a few at the Eden Project. All outdoors.

I tried a sundew, it flowered then died (small white flowers on a 30cm stalk). Not sure what I did wrong. 

I had 2 nepenthes but they dried out one time and died. I'm not so good with things that need to be wet all the time.