Skip to content

Vidyut

Writing || Carnivorous Plants || Artisan soaps || DIY

  • Home
    • Sustainable Living
    • Container Gardening
  • Shop
    • Terms of sale
    • Cart
    • Wishlist
  • FAQ

Category: Growing carnivorous plants in India

Carnivorous plants are difficult to grow in the heat of India’s plains. The challenges are different, the conditions are vastly different from most information available online. Growing carnivorous plants in India requires adapting a lot of information found online to Indian conditions. 24 degree celcius is not “hot” here. We call it cool weather. For most of Indian plains and particularly the southern half of India, “winter” reaching single digit temperatures is rare. How does one grow the plants one reads about? It has been an educational journey.

Adapting carnivorous plants to Indian conditions takes some strategizing. Some never really adapt well and I have spent tens of thousands of rupees on plants only to discover that they didn’t make it a week past receiving them. Others, like byblis, notorious for being tricky to germinate are weeds here. The only byblis seeds I intentionally germinated were the first batch of 10 seeds I purchased. They have been handling their propagation just fine ever since.

On the other hand, the amount of money I’ve spent trying to grow pinguiculas here is not funny.

But it is an endeavour worth taking on. The plants are a curiosity. They are a challenge. Many of them are dying in their habitats. Some of them, native to India need to be purchased from abroad, as their habitats die out and few in India bother to keep the species alive in private collections.

Over time, there have been several species that have thrived in the sweltering heat of Nalasopara, near Mumbai. Spares from species that thrive are available in my makeshift shop for sale. They are a good idea to buy, because they are adapted to our conditions and clearly thrive well enough for there to be spares to sell.

So here are my experiences growing these fascinating plants.

How to culture live sphagnum 1

How to culture live sphagnum

On November 28, 2020 By vidyut In Growing carnivorous plants in India

Live sphagnum grows in very pure water and needs high humidity to grow well. If you cannot provide these two, you might as well not bother. But it is not so hard to create these …

Continue reading
How I make Pinguicula cuttings - Pinguicula agnicola as example 2

How I make Pinguicula cuttings – Pinguicula agnicola as example

On September 21, 2020 By vidyut In Growing carnivorous plants in India, Pinguicula

First, some eye candy. Now for how to get here. You begin with a healthy pinguicula plant (healthier than this – this is a plant after I pulled off the leaves, because I forgot to …

Continue reading
Nepenthes merrilliana refuses to pitcher. 3

Nepenthes merrilliana refuses to pitcher.

On September 15, 2020 By vidyut In Growing carnivorous plants in India, Nepenthes

I have a seedgrown nepenthes merrilliana that is about two years old or so. It has never pitchered other than when it was a very small seedling. It gets good conditions. 5-6 hours of light. …

Continue reading

How to use cocopeat for your carnivrous plants.

On September 14, 2020 By shiva.adam In Growing carnivorous plants in India, Instructions and advice

Carnivorous plants often expect the substrate merely for the physical base to keep them grounded, significantly as a source of clean water & and for the roots to dig in away from the light. some …

Continue reading
drosera burmanii

Drosera burmanii

On September 12, 2020 By vidyut In Drosera, Growing carnivorous plants in India, Plant profiles

Some drosera burmanii photos: Drosera burmanii may be tiny, but they have mighty dew! Drosera burmanii can get red when not fed for a while You can grow drosera burmanii nice and tidy in pots. …

Continue reading
Some drosera capensis pics 4

Some drosera capensis pics

On September 12, 2020 By vidyut In Drosera, Growing carnivorous plants in India, Plant profiles

Some drosera photos:

Continue reading
Nepenthes thorelii x hamata cutting

How I do nepenthes cuttings

On September 12, 2020 By vidyut In Growing carnivorous plants in India, Instructions and advice, Nepenthes

I am going to try and add photos to give a visual idea later, but frankly, I don’t usually take pics while working with plants, so it may be a bit of a struggle to …

Continue reading
Pinguicula plantlets placed on sphagnum

Successfully acclimatizing pinguicula that arrive via shipping

On September 12, 2018 By vidyut In Growing carnivorous plants in India

The plants you buy will be shipped to you bare root. When you receive them, take them out of the packing and gently GENTLY place them on growing media. Create a hollow in the surface …

Continue reading
Nepenthes Viking x hamata pitcher

Nepenthes mirabilis var globosa (Nepenthes viking) x Nepenthes hamata photos

On September 11, 2018 By vidyut In Growing carnivorous plants in India

Took some nice photos of the latest pitcher on my nepenthes mirabilis var globosa x hamata and thought to share them here. This plant is still juvenile and has just started producing slightly bigger pitchers. …

Continue reading
rescued nepenthes plants

Where to find sphagnum moss and other carnivorous plant growing supplies in India?

On August 10, 2018 By vidyut In Growing carnivorous plants in India

Almost half the people who buy plants from me or discuss carnivorous plants end up asking where to buy sphagnum moss or other supplies necessary for growing carnivorous plants in India. Since I repeat this …

Continue reading

Posts pagination

1 2 Next Posts»

Recent Posts

  • Staying in control of the reader
  • World-building Marginally Human and Abrahamha’s strays series: Computing systems
  • Marginally Human – Outliers in a post-dystopian utopia
  • How to culture live sphagnum
  • How I make Pinguicula cuttings – Pinguicula agnicola as example

WordPress Theme: Chronus by ThemeZee.