Oh, that is some good news to hear. I have D. Capensis and D. Capillaris, and they both reproduce by themselves. I see the little guys! You have got a nice healthy plant. A good trick for those that are new in growing CPs. If you grow them with live spagnum moss. If the spagnum moss is healthy and not slimy chances are your plant will also be healthy. Try to change the soil as soon as it becomes slimy wash that pot with very hot water for a while before placing fresh media. Sometimes slime attacks my terrarium plants and that is when they start to grow bad. For some reason, I have not seen slime growing in my media for about a year. I think that it might be because my carbon filter in my reverse osmosis filter is no longer working so the water I water my plants contains just a little bit of clorox from the tap water, enough to kill the slime or at least prevent it from growing.

I consulted the great CP Bible by our lord Peter D'Amato. for the greenhouse styled terreriums he says to keep the plants on a 12 hour photoperiod for winter so that the mexican pings will succulent, the pygmys will produce Gemmnae and the winter species will do flower production. I'm going to keep my temperates in the store room where they can be colder for thier dormancies all the time, and I'll more then likely be clsoing ovv the vents to my room at night so that they get colder night temperatures. if worse comes to worse I'll move the ping in with the temperates but this one is the experimental ping, since it'll be my first.

count_d, I purchased my plant from Tony at ExoticPlantsPlus.com the home of Par O Bek Orchids! http://www.exoticplantsplus.com/ thespirals, I keep it growing up by using the metal chain of the hanging basket. By moving some of the leaves to the inside of the chain and letting the plant then rest against it, the plant grows more upwards. Once it gets past the metal chain I have large s hooks which I then use orchid flower spike clips to clip the nep vine to the s hook. You do not need to cut your nep. I do it when it reaches the ceiling which is 3 to 4 feet from the hanging basket. I would not cut it till you have new growth at the bottom of your plant which you say you do. My first time cutting the plant I was about 12" above the soil for my cut. Cutting the plant usually causes more basal shoots to form which will make your plant bushier, as they grow. Also usually a node below the cut will start to grow. Seeing the effects of cutting the plant from the first time, the second time I cut it was much closer to the soil, but I had several new basal points growing which were several inches tall by then. You end up with several new plants to trade away if you try to root your cuttings. Below is a link to rooting nep cuttings. This is the way I do mine and have great success, only have lost 1 cutting. Here is a link that might be useful: Rooting nep cuttings

No, I wanted to find out if I could keep it alive before I did anything. Its on my (not quite) mother-in-laws land, in an area they have been clearing for the kids, so I planned on going back for it if I found out that I could possibly care for it (as I said, thus far Ive only killed them). So I suppose this means that I can't keep it because I cant remove it, I guess Im glad I asked. How do I find out about collecting seeds? Is that difficult to do (would it be easier to buy them online)? Or going back to my original question, is this something that I would be able to keep or is it difficult? Im willing and eager to try another way to gain some experience keeping CPs other than death boxes and plant poaching! Thank you for letting me know about the legality of collecting them.. I know that many reptiles are illegal to remove or kill, but I had no idea that plants also have those restrictions! Ill check out the international CP society and read up before I go back.