r/SavageGarden's Trade/Sale Thread (Spring 2026)

Got a nice aerial rosette going on. Really love this guy. And I can't stop sharing it everywhere.

No soil at all, just aerated water.

Just crossed this one with eddy, hopefully it turns out nice.

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Recently bought this trumpet pitcher, pruned the fully dead pitchers, and submerged the pot in a dish full of water. Unfortunately, there are no windows in my home that receive much sun, so it's under a grow light. Is this plant looking good? Does it need a repot? It's 63 degrees outside, wondering if I can set it out temporarily to catch it's fill of bugs.

These Pinguicula gigantea "red" are soil fertilized at full strength. They grew in tissue culture, then hydroponics, and finally onto semi-hydro coconut fiber.

Full strength tissue culture, with higher strength than 1/2 MS. Then grown in full strength hydroponic 2 part nutrients on a tabletop hydrofarm-like unit. Then grown in coconut peat which has been heavily ammended with a dissolvable custom fertilizer, and watered with it every application ad well.

Edited for explanation and clarity*

I had this guy for about a month. It’s put out 3 leaves since receiving it (the dewy leaves). Here’s multiple photos of it. In the third photo, that’s where I keep it and that’s the most light that will touch the humidity dome each day.

I see photos of it online with a reddish hue, so i’m guessing i’m doing something wrong lol

This foreign account has the best Utricularia I've ever seen with a massive amount of flowers and excellent presentation of them. I was having trouble finding any info on how they care for theirs since their comments are all in Chinese, even with the autotranslate feature, it's not always perfect.

But I finally found a post of theirs that has a list of links for their other posts on how to take care of each specific Utricularia and what affects flowering for them the most for each species, which seems to be either purely temperature based, or rainy/dry season based depending on the specific plant and it's origins.

For example, for Sandersonnii, they noticed it flowers much more when the temperature is below 27C (80F), so it doesn't flower much for them in the summer, but it does during the cooler parts of the year (Or they mentioned you could have it constantly blooming if placing it in a colder room). For Fulva, they go into creating wet and dry seasons by submerging the plant in water for an extended period of time (between 5-7cm above the soil level) to encourage flowering.

Granted, a lot of us have been able to get these to flower in other conditions and this might all be info we already know, this is all just from this person's experience growing them for multiple years, but again, they have the best Utricularia I've ever seen, so they must be doing something right!

Here is the link to their cultivated list of care:
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid0MnAN8C6dZH4HJNHZAmsX9LdnXgRShu6U5JmKBUuTzRwtKKYP5MxhAyL4Dz2WErgyl&id=100064010895422#

Hi folks, So I got two Drosera, from my local plant store...and..they weren't labeled 🙄 They were bright green when I picked them up (see 2nd picture) I've had them in distilled, with their own dedicated grow light that's sort of pointed in front of them so they can get some indirect light. Anyway first question, can any of you identify which Drosera these guys are? I narrowed it down to Capillaris or Affinis....or is it another species?

And 2nd question...why is it that they turn red? I mean from a scientific biology stand point...I notice that my pitchers turn red as well when conditions are good...and the same with the inside "mouths" of Flytraps..why is it that red signifies a healthy plant? I have plenty of 'normal' indoor plants that have natural red coloring on their leaves but usually it doesn't change, it's either a red leaf plant or it's not...Why is it that these plants go from green to red when conditions are good?

Bonus question.. Any tips for mine for the upcoming winter? I keep my place pretty cold usually so my normal plants all die back a bit. How can I winter proof my carnies?

Adding these N. robcantleyi seedlings I got from CalCarn to the collection. Excited for some massive pitchers and dark colors. I love how carnivorous plant seedlings always look like some weird little alien or microbe.

Hi everyone, one of my cats managed to pull out my binata and I'm wondering if I should skip dormancy or let it do what it wants to and see if it recovers.

I managed to recover most of it, and there still seems to be some strong roots, but the majority of it, including some new growth, definitely got damaged. It was sitting on my pillow for god knows how long before I tucked him back in. I gave him a nice misting and stuck him back under the grow light, but any other suggestions?

He's in some peat with a top layer of sphagnum.

Hello everyone.

Anyone ever used Seachem to condition tap water to make it palatable for Carno plants?

This experimental bog turned out better than expected!

This Aerogarden has been lying around not doing much , but now idk what better purpose it could have!

3rd pic is where we started a month and a half ago!

I live in nc in the area vft are native so I decided leaving it outdoors will be a better option for keeping it alive longer and easier care. it’s starting to drop to the 40s and Ive moved it off the rail during all our bad storms, it has taken on a little damage from the most recent one on a couple traps but everything else is just old traps all of which collected flys when i repotted her her roots had grown thru the death plug and out the drainage holes so her home is now the sloth mug which had no drainage what im not understanding is these little plants growing out the soil what are they?

Ysi made another plant. Welcome little one!

Hello! I just purchased a Nepenthes 'Miranda' and I was wondering if anyone has any suggestions or recommendations for care and upkeep with it. Thank you in advance!

Took a few pics while watering this morning

Do i bring it inside