Ok, I'm Addicted

18 years ago

Hi Everyone,

Catching up on some xmas shopping yesterday. Went to a local 99 Cent store. Well, the first thing I saw was some plants outside the door. Our temps here are in the 60's & 70's during the day, a warm winter. I normally don't look but I spotted what looked like a dome, a dome of death. Couldn't be, but it was. A VFT, poor little thing, struggling to live, knowing its doom is coming. I just had to rescue it, then I spotted another and had to rescue that one to. Then I got a grocery cart and found another, and another, I found them all. Eleven total, all 99 cents each, I carefully put them in my cart and guarded them as I shopped. After going through the checkout on my way out the door I spotted 2 more. Well, of course I had to call the checkers attention to them and that I also wanted those 2. She said just take them, they will die anyway.

What a find! 13 plants for $10.89. I spent a couple of hours at home cleaning them up, removing blackened leaves, removing the solid bottoms on the domes, making holes in the domes for acclimation, etc. Some traps have good red color and good size teeth on them, but I am assuming they are all typicals. As I went through each plant, I saw a few other plants in there to and what looks like some moss starting. I may be hoping for to much but it looks like a soft green sphagnum starting. We'll see. Either way I have about 20 plants for about 50 cents each.

Santa definitely steered me in the right direction. Has made my Christmas very merry.

Happy Holidays,

Nycti

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Comments (12)

drwurm
18 years ago
You're not the only one. People on *OTHER FORUM* have been talking about it lately.
nycti
Original Author
18 years ago
Hi Drwurm,

Another cp forum? One that I missed? :O
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antechron
18 years ago
WHAT! Not fair! I can't find any for less than 6.99 where I am! ugh, unless they are nearly dead... but even then I got 2 nepenthes and they were 3.00 each. Any tips on bringing them back would be great. Where do you live?
hero81
18 years ago
WOW!
6.99.. that's pretty up there.
I got my 3 pots of VFTs for only 4.99 each. n.n

*snicker*
drwurm
18 years ago
lol, it wont let me post the name here, but it's the forum attached to flytrapshop.com
mutant_hybrid
18 years ago
One thing you might do to lower the price of those sickly, dying flytraps is to use a tactic I heard from cobraplant.com. Take a large healthy Flytrap from your collection to the store and show them what they should look like and complain about the plants health, then ask if they would be willing to sell all of their plants for a cut rate so that they would not just die on the shelves and provide no revenue to the store at all. In the end, the store gets a couple bucks for the plants and you get a deal for dozens.
nycti
Original Author
18 years ago
Hi Ante,

Excellent buy on the Nepenthes. Slow acclimation and lots of time. Might try foliar feeding. I purchased my Nepenthes in July and it finally started making pitchers around the end of October. I am in Phoenix Az, land of the oven.

Drwurm,

I will look, thank you.

Hi Mutant, :)

Good idea. I tried to talk Home Depot out of a few dieing ones. They told me they just send them back if they die. I guess they get a credit. But I won't give up.

Nycti
poolboy101
18 years ago
Is TERRA nother FORUM? lol
tommyr_gw Zone 6
18 years ago
Why, Yes it IS! LOL! And a darn great one too!
drwurm
18 years ago
That site is
Exceptionally great.
Really, the members are always
Ready to give
A hand. They have specific sections, like those
For trading
Openly with the other members. You can get tough to find plants like
Roridula if you ask around.
Usually your questions are answered by
Members in an hour or two.
So, you should search closely

.

Cause sometimes the
Only way to get good plants is by
Mooching off of generous people.
nycti
Original Author
18 years ago
Thank you Drwurm for mentioning it. It's a great site and I especially like the chatbox.

Nycti
daveyjones
18 years ago
Thanks for showing the new forum. It's really great! So much more info, and more organized.