Hey everyone! I'd like to thank you all for you interest and I'm happy to say that I'm completely finished with my downsizing. All the plants are gone and my collection is where it needs to be. Look for some pictures of my new terrariums soon.

hey leopard gecko- I e-mailed ya back my addy and can send the check as soon as I get youre's. thanks for helping out a budding botanist and his pops.

Ye These plants are more picky than what I grow. Ive gone for easy to grow, tough as nails plants. I grow the following: Nep Ventricosa (red pitchers) Nep Sanguinea (Orange pitchers) Nep Judith Finn Drosera Capensis (Broad leaf, Typical and Alba) Drosera Aliciae Dionaea Muscipula (Big Mouth VFT, Typical VFT, Red Dragon VFT, Dente VFT) Sarracenia (Yello Pichers(Flava), Rubra, Cobra Nest, Judith Hindle) Pinguicula Primuliflora All of these plants are hardened off to the humidity here, all the plants except for the VFT's, Butterwort and American Pitchers are grown indoors with humidity ranging from 30-40% during the day. Outdoors the humidity the American pitcher were tolerating I believe was at an average of about 21% The Nepenthes I have are very tolerant and are growing very well under the drier conditions, they do of course come from areas that are extremly humid. I've never taken a chance with the bical or hamata types because of their sheer size when adult as well as having read long time growers state that changes in temp and or humidity can literally kill the plants do to the shock. If you are willing to build a good sized terrarium that would keep the humidity and temp steady then you should be fine. Growing it in or outdoors though I dont think would work. If you want some to start off with to learn from, the ones I have are excellent beginners plants, they may not have sharp teeth but they are all stunning plants. Cheers Sheldon

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.