What Kind of conditions do you have them under? Highland Lowland? They are Lowlands, so that means high humidity higher temps. Thats all the info i can give to you from their. Cheers

I don't know, but you would still want to change the potting medium every few years. Many neps abandon their roots and still get quite large, although bical is not one of them. Let us know how it goes, (in a few years).

You guys arenÂt alone on these but my possession drives me to by varieties of each individual species. For example I have S. rubra ssp. rubra, S. rubra ssp. alabamensis var. pubescens, S. rubra ssp. wherryii, S. rubra ssp. gulfensis var. "Green Form" ( or Alba), S. rubra ssp. gulfensis var. typical, S. rubra ssp. jonesii var. typical. I do have most of other different species (except for S. minor and S. oreophilia) of Sarracenias with more then one variety for each. IÂm doing the same with D. spatulata and D. capensis, as well as Venus flytrap, which I have five different varieties. Now IÂm doing the same thing with N. alata and N rafflesiana, which I have two varieties now for each. Some of them I purchase through nurseries but now half of my collection was purchase through ebay. Bidding away like IÂm possessed and now I also have friend and relatives telling me to stop or slow down. I too try to follow their advice but dam itÂs hard.

The darlingtonias was first started growing there because long tine ago, wild collected plants were taken from the wild and placed into pots with plastic clear dome covers and sold as cobra lilies among venus fly traps and sundews. The practice became illegal when these plants were taken by the hundred thousands for the annual cp sales in super markets and grocers, etc. The plant never grew well for most people, especially our warm Hawaiian climate. Luckily one person who grew up where th darlingtonias were growing remarked that these plants grew best along the marginal bogs closest to running water from snow seepage and thus a few were planted along embankments of some people who had natural artesian springs welling out of the ground. The plants colonized like it naturally grew there. So much so that it would look weedy to people who did know what they were. Unfortunately the people who purchased the land where these were growing, had other agenda for buying this. They wanted to raise trout and other cold water food fishes and anything that blocked access to the pools were quickly removed. Among them, the lovely groups of darlingtonias.