My mom got me a Cobra Lily when I was like 8 years old. Years and years pre-internet. Been addicted ever since.
Chocokat1
Everyone’s favorite *fungus gnats*. One day last year I’d just decided to just get a sundew and instantly became very fascinated by its alien appearance. The plant was *so effective* as well, that I went and got a couple more inc some pings. They have to share room with my succs and cacti otherwise I’d get more.
PantsMunch101
Got into plants in general last summer when a friend gave me a philodendron clipping. A few months back I randomly saw a picture of a sundew and I fell in love. 3 months later and I’ve 7 plants total, all various species
Vewlop
When I was younger I went to a horror convention and there was a guy there selling vft and he had an ampullaria there for show and after talking for a bit I took home the amp. Rest is history
omnipotentworm
I love how unusual and alien Sundews look. Genuinely doesn’t look like something that should normally live on earth, and there’s something about Cape Sundew leaves when you get the closeup that are very satisfying to look at, i guess maybe its the uniformity of it all? Them being easy as hell to grow is just a plus. I have also become enamored recently with Pinguicula Gypsicola, for similar reasons.
DidensyBanana
My mother likes plants so I bought her drosera burmannii and venus flytrap seeds on her birthday. I also sowed them for her and It’s thrilling to see them grow so I also bought some other sundew and venus flytrap seeds for myself.
MistSecurity
Wow. I never even realized that Victreebel was a pitcher plant… Thank you for this.
I was always fascinated with Venus Fly Traps when I was a kid, but they would always die off (now I know it’s because they’re finnicky little fucks).
Rockin_Otter
I literally just saw a flytrap in a garden store while on a walk and went “no way… Those are just safe? And you can just buy them??”
Now I have pretty much every type of CP and am working on selling some too!
dawnofaudrey
I teach workshops at a garden center. There was a Facebook comment saying “oh I would only go if THIS person was teaching” (being our local carn expert). I knew how to keep them alive but had never cared for them myself at that point. I got the basics and had a ton of fun watching them grow. Now my workshops are a lot better because I have the experience!
Huge_Fox1848
Where I worked, I was offered a nepenthes half price since the woman who managed the garden area didn’t want to see it get thrown away.
I bought it (years ago) and now I have 7 different nepenthes and one sarracenia.
Vyezene
Pokemon definitely had a residual effect! I remember seeing a nepenthes and being like wait what???? Then I found Drosera growing in my area and had to find all the other locations they grew. and I was getting into houseplants and My girlfriend loves Pinguicula. Its just hard not to at least appreciate carnies and be alittle bit amazed
tranquility2020
Little Shop of Horrors.
LoudKaleidoscope8576
I restarted my plant collecting after my daughter gave me a beautiful anthurium cutting that she had propagated. I had a few plants but I started acquiring more plants. With that came fungus gnats and I didn’t want to use anything around my dogs. We went into a favorite greenhouse and the owner had a 3 tier cart with grow lights and these wonderful little succulent looking plants that flower and have sticky leaves. I dove in to the world of pinguiculas head first then I branched out to other carnivorous plants. I think it’s been 3+ years and I have quite the collection of CPs. Love them all! I very well could start selling. I am currently growing some pings to take to a local nursery to sell to the owner and maybe get some in-house credit. 😁
AtlAWSConsultant
My wife bought me venus fly traps and two pitcher plants for my birthday. Then I was hooked.
lastwordymcgee
Morticia Addams and her plant, Cleopatra. I named my first nepenthes Cleo in tribute.
TheExoticMachinist
I saw a nepenthes at an art fair, and had to spend the $20 on it a year ago, and then it went through some tough times without enough light, until the day I got grow lights and started taking care of them better, and now they made a full comeback and I acquired 50ish more.
Actual-Ad-4861
Always remembered the Venus flytraps maybe on a nature documentary it wasn’t till a month or two ago I got a Venus flytrap and pitcher plant did a lot of research and eventually got a sundew making 3cp
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My mom got me a Cobra Lily when I was like 8 years old. Years and years pre-internet. Been addicted ever since.
Everyone’s favorite *fungus gnats*. One day last year I’d just decided to just get a sundew and instantly became very fascinated by its alien appearance. The plant was *so effective* as well, that I went and got a couple more inc some pings. They have to share room with my succs and cacti otherwise I’d get more.
Got into plants in general last summer when a friend gave me a philodendron clipping. A few months back I randomly saw a picture of a sundew and I fell in love. 3 months later and I’ve 7 plants total, all various species
When I was younger I went to a horror convention and there was a guy there selling vft and he had an ampullaria there for show and after talking for a bit I took home the amp. Rest is history
I love how unusual and alien Sundews look. Genuinely doesn’t look like something that should normally live on earth, and there’s something about Cape Sundew leaves when you get the closeup that are very satisfying to look at, i guess maybe its the uniformity of it all? Them being easy as hell to grow is just a plus. I have also become enamored recently with Pinguicula Gypsicola, for similar reasons.
My mother likes plants so I bought her drosera burmannii and venus flytrap seeds on her birthday. I also sowed them for her and It’s thrilling to see them grow so I also bought some other sundew and venus flytrap seeds for myself.
Wow. I never even realized that Victreebel was a pitcher plant… Thank you for this.
I was always fascinated with Venus Fly Traps when I was a kid, but they would always die off (now I know it’s because they’re finnicky little fucks).
I literally just saw a flytrap in a garden store while on a walk and went “no way… Those are just safe? And you can just buy them??”
Now I have pretty much every type of CP and am working on selling some too!
I teach workshops at a garden center. There was a Facebook comment saying “oh I would only go if THIS person was teaching” (being our local carn expert). I knew how to keep them alive but had never cared for them myself at that point. I got the basics and had a ton of fun watching them grow. Now my workshops are a lot better because I have the experience!
Where I worked, I was offered a nepenthes half price since the woman who managed the garden area didn’t want to see it get thrown away.
I bought it (years ago) and now I have 7 different nepenthes and one sarracenia.
Pokemon definitely had a residual effect! I remember seeing a nepenthes and being like wait what???? Then I found Drosera growing in my area and had to find all the other locations they grew. and I was getting into houseplants and My girlfriend loves Pinguicula. Its just hard not to at least appreciate carnies and be alittle bit amazed
Little Shop of Horrors.
I restarted my plant collecting after my daughter gave me a beautiful anthurium cutting that she had propagated. I had a few plants but I started acquiring more plants. With that came fungus gnats and I didn’t want to use anything around my dogs. We went into a favorite greenhouse and the owner had a 3 tier cart with grow lights and these wonderful little succulent looking plants that flower and have sticky leaves. I dove in to the world of pinguiculas head first then I branched out to other carnivorous plants. I think it’s been 3+ years and I have quite the collection of CPs. Love them all! I very well could start selling. I am currently growing some pings to take to a local nursery to sell to the owner and maybe get some in-house credit. 😁
My wife bought me venus fly traps and two pitcher plants for my birthday. Then I was hooked.
Morticia Addams and her plant, Cleopatra. I named my first nepenthes Cleo in tribute.
I saw a nepenthes at an art fair, and had to spend the $20 on it a year ago, and then it went through some tough times without enough light, until the day I got grow lights and started taking care of them better, and now they made a full comeback and I acquired 50ish more.
Always remembered the Venus flytraps maybe on a nature documentary it wasn’t till a month or two ago I got a Venus flytrap and pitcher plant did a lot of research and eventually got a sundew making 3cp
Pokemon for me too.