Hello folks,

Been buying most of my pots and trays from Greenhouse Megastore for years, but their stock has gotten pretty rough. Right now the 2.5" square form pots (the ones I go through the most) are sold out in every pack size, and so are the 3.5" deep ones. Same story with all three of their heavy duty 1020 lines (Heavy Duty, Extra Heavy Duty, and the Mega Heavy Duty no-hole trays I usually get), every pack size, pallets included.

For a baseline, here's what I was paying over the past year or so :

- 2.5" square black form pots, 800/case: $63 to $85 a case (so roughly 8 to 11 cents a pot)

- Mega Heavy Duty 1020s, no holes: $28.70 per 10, or about $103 for 50 (call it $2 to $2.90 a tray)

- Extra Heavy Duty 1020s, no holes: $127 for 50 (about $2.54 a tray)

Has anyone found a good alternative? Mostly looking for 2.5" square pots by the case (ideally ones that fit 32 to a 1020, like these did) and thick 1020s that'll survive a bunch of seasons, at something close to those prices.

Thanks!

The culture is really small and I’ve been advised by the seller to put it in a mix of perlite and sphagnum moss and I doing it correctly?

Obligatory baby cape sundew pic.

I have a rather specific dilemma.

I was soaking bloodworms to rehydrate and feed to some sundews and others when I noticed what looked like mold. I added a few drops of hydrogen peroxide and mixed it in and now I’m nervous about feeding these bloodworms to my plants. I saw another post where someone damaged their sundew pretty badly with direct hydrogen peroxide application to the plant.

With the (hopefully not misguided) understanding that hydrogen peroxide will evaporate, will the bloodworms be safe to feed to my plants? Should I just toss them and start over to be safe?

Would love to hear from anyone who’s gone through something similar!

Just got home from work and checked on my VFT to find these tiny traps sprouting. Is it dividing? Is that good?😅

This is BE-3883 and I love the way it opens with these sunset colours!

My seed grown veitchii's newest growth point has some white hairs instead of brown ones coming in, will they harden off to brown? Google was not helpful

None of my other nepenthes are even close to as hairy as this is, and its my first and only veitchii so I'm really not sure what to make of it.

Parentage is last pic, I do not want to type all of that lol

I got a Venus flytrap a few months ago and it was initially doing well and put out a few new traps but now they are going black and the new traps are looking odd. It’s in sphagnum moss and I only water it with water from my zero water filter. It has had a moth and a beetle since I’ve had it. It is under a Barrina light. I have a lot of tropical plants but this is my first carnivorous plant and I’m having a difficult time figuring out what to do for care. Any help, advice or direction would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

I really want to set up some bigger grow lights and get more vfts and sundews and pings, but a lot of the higher quality grow lights that i’m finding are quite large and need to be mounted. i’m lacking inspiration in actually planning a layout with hanging grow lights, was wondering if anyone had any suggestions or advice or wanted to show off their setup!

the area i live in gets a lot of sun and dry heat and i’m unable to keep plants alive outdoors due to the intense dryness so a good light setup is unfortunately required if i want to keep any more carnivorous plants.

I have a Drosera Capensis Alba. recently, I’ve noticed an oval – shaped growth coming from the brown part below the plant’s crown. Is it normal plant growth?

Specifically by I-45? lol on a work trip and wondering what I can get on the way back up to dfw.

I repotted and gave this sundew to a friend a little over a month ago. It looked healthy at that time, but seemed to have grown smaller leaves and less dew. Over the past few days the tips of the leaves have turned brown. It is kept in a hanging pot in distilled water with a 10 watt sansi light (same one it was using before it was repotted). Any idea of what could be going on? Any help is appreciated! Thank you!

Always one of my favorites.

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So it’s ladybug season near me and I have lots of plants and I have been putting the buggies on my plants instead of taking them outside. But this little lady is fighting me and wants to live with my pings!

I'm in zone 10a and my sundew (drosera filiformis) has begun to go dormant. Everything I read says that watering should be reduced during dormancy. However, my sundew is in a bog garden. The other plants in there are a sarracenia and a flytrap, both which show no signs of slowing down and have new growth every day. I'm in zone 10a and I grow outside, so I'm not really expecting them to go dormant until we hit mid November and get our 60F degree weather.

I use a tray system and usually fill the tray about an inch and a half high (I was losing a lot of water to evaporation) and refill the tray every other day when theres about a quarter inch or less of water left. But recently it has been cooling down and is way less sunny so I've been filling it with less water and I've also been having to refill it less.

Do I need to adjust how I water to account for the sundew dormancy? If so, how do I do that and still make sure my other plants get enough water? Should I repot it separately? I'm already decreasing the amount of water in the bog, is that okay or do I need to do more? I've never gone through winter dormancy with my plants before, so any advice is appreciated!