What got U addicted

[quogue]

Death Trap on PBS

[buckcity]

The answer for me is not "what" but "who" : my grandparents.

They were both avid hobby fisherman and would take me on little trips in South Georgia to fish too but it was the flora that attracted my attention.

In the late sixties when I was a kid there were lots of Sarracenia minor and flava about -along with bugs with which to play. I never had the patience to hold a fishing pole but I could always watch sarracenia grow.

[kellykellyh]

Great story, buckcity!
I've made it a point to impart my love of the natural world with my (future) children.

[drew]

my uncle inspired me he had a bunch and i saw them and thought they were the coolest thing

[williamg]

I have no great story, but a place instead. It's name is lowes. I found some said looking VFTs, sundews, and nepenthes hiding in the plant section. I took pity upon them and brought them home. After finding some books at the library, (Go Library!), I was hooked. Now the Nepenthes are so big I had to build a light rig. I've also had to give up on fish tanks as my plants keeping bigger and more numerous and built my own.

[unstuckintime]

When I was little, I would occasionally buy a venus flytrap or a butterwort, and they would of course die. But, when i was maybe fifteen, my older brother sent me a Beginners kit of carnivorous plants (D. adelae, D. muscipula, S. leucophylla, and a P. primuliflora) and of course i killed every last one. However, it got me hooked. I read as much as I could, and when I was ready, I went out and purchased some D. capensis seeds. One of the plants from that original seed purchase is alive today, and it grows merrily with the twenty-something other species I grow, and I anxiously await the day when I can expand my growing space, and thusly, my collection.

[w03]

When I was little, I had the same experience with CPs in general, and killed scores of them (literally). The one thing that always caught my interest was a genus called Genlisea (why?). I first read about this in Carnivorous Plants by Adrian Slack. Later I started the Savage Garden by Peter D'Amanto, got my first online order (which of course, included a genlisea), and well, it has been going ok ever since. I can't really say I've gotten much better at CPs, however. (I messed up on capensis, they keep dying on me! I blame my hard water and broken RO filter!).

[labine]

i started with the 2 plants available in home depot in montreal and i was so sure that it was eveything that exists about CP's .I did a little research on internet to be sure i had everything possible and thats when i found out i was missing alot of information. wow, nothing is available! this is when i got addicted . Even today imports permits, phyto. certificate gets in the way and i understand. I believe that shipping from vermont to montreal is less at risk than BC to MTL. Borders man!!! Lucky us we have HB and Keehn in Canada or we would have nothing available.

anyways cant' get enough of those CP's.

good growing

[w03]

Welcome, labine!

Say, weren't you on terraforums the other day?

[labine]

thanks W03,

yes i was and i registered today.

[Devon]

I don't really remeber how I gto addicted.. I think i was either researching cacti and suddenly a CP thing came p out of nowhere, or it was when I bought a dente VFT from Home Depot.

[regina]

Hi, I am going to retire in 2 months.I saw my first s. 4 years ago. I fell in love with them then ans there. I have 6 now old enough to bloom and around 150 that i planted from seed that came from Canada. I also rescue from Lowe's.

[JonesPatrickSr]

Me...I got addicted by accident...Trying to be more green I decided to landscape with natives. Googled "native+plants+North America" and saw sundews, butterwort, pitcher plants, venus flytraps...not in the steamy jungle but North Carolina Good thing I didn't add drought tolerant to the search!Lol

[sundewman]

My friend purchased a pitcher plant and venus flytrap at Lowes a while back. He mentioned to me that I should get some. So I went to the library first and looked up "carnivorous plants" in the database. They didn't have many to choose from, but this really old book caught my eye:

(http://www.amazon.com/Sundew-Stranglers-Plants-That-Insects/dp/0525452087).
It had a bit of inaccurate information, when I looked back at it a few years later, but the pictures were great and it showed how easy D. capensis could be propagated. I went to Lowes a while later and bought what I thought was D. capensis. Turned out to be D. adelae, but it was easily propagated and got me hooked. I then got some free capensis seeds in a giveaway, and that's when I lost all control over my addiction. It's been sundews all the way ever since then.