Utricularia asplundii

Today arrived the first packet for this year containing seeds of beautiful plant named Utricularia asplundii. Thanks to Sebulon! I will inform you all about how the seeds will grow.



Testing macro mode on  Phalaenopsis flower.


Cephalotus follicularis. Easy grower at least under my conditions. Biggest plant has made 2 new and smaller plant one new growing point.


Nepenthes veitchii 'Golden perisome' has now this 3 cm(1.18") high pitcherwith some nice colour.

Spring coming

Howdy! Spring is now coming to Finland too. Some kind of Crocus sp. Flowering outdoors If you look carefully you will see a bumblebee in the most right of the flowers.

Phalaenopsis orchid continues making flowers to old flowerstalk.

Ludisia discolor cuttings growing alongside with Nepenthes ampullaria 'Brunei Red' x 'Harlequin'


N. ampullaria's so far biggest pitcher. It's 7 cm (2.7") high including the height of lid.

Pinguicula emarginata is enjoying the new growing light.

Pinguicula laueana is growing nicely too. It's just making more and more leaves and growing more rapidly. I wish to see the plant flowering someday.

Utricularia livida 'Blue' gaining a nice color on it's flower.

Flower of seedgrown Utricularia calycifida from Gran Sabana.

Flower of Utricularia nephrophylla from Serra dos Orgaos, Brazil. Inspired by Sebulon from CPUK I wanted to see how root system of my Utricularia alpina is doing. Here's the plant.


and here's the root system

  I'd say that's pretty well if you notice that when I got this plant it had only two leaves and one tuber. It tried to flower for me but then I over watered it and the flowerstalk rot away.
Spring coming and temperatures are slowly going up. I think I can start ordering plants in following few weeks if the temperatures keep rising so that we will not have frost during night. Enjoy the spring!

Not really

The post below was an obvious troll. Sweden has mo society for carnivorous plants as far as I know. I don't move to Sweden because unfortunately I can't speak Swedish well.

Not making this post only for trolling so here's a quick photo update of my plants.



N. veitchii pitcher before opening



D. felix growing 3 flowestalks



P. emarginata






U. nephrophylla from Serra dos Orgaos finally blooming.

My dearest readers. It has been very nice to write about my hobby to all of you but unfortunately I must tell you the following news.

I will move to Sweden in this month to live in Stockholm. I know it doesn't sound like much but I've been asked to join the swedish carnivorous plants association and even become the next secretary of it.

Another thing that I have been asked to do is to change the blog so next blog posts will be all in swedish. I know I may loose some readers because of this but on the other hand I think it will help swedish and finland swedish and maybe norwegian carnivorous plants hobbyists to become as good carnivorous plants growers as I do.

So bye

Samma på svenska.

Mina kära läsare. Det har varit jätte trevligt att skriva upp saker av min hobby.

Jag är så jätte glatt av berätta att jag vill flytta till Sverige och bo i Stockholm senare i april. Jag vill också bli medlem och en sekretarare i svensk köttätande vaxt förening.

Den andra saker som har jag frågat av göra är att jag måste byta min boggens språk från engelska till svenska. Jag vetar att några läsare vill sluta att läsa min blog men jag hoppas att byta språk till svenska till hjälpa svenska, finlandsvenska och norska uppfödare av köttätande vaxter bli så god att kultivera köttätande vaxter som jag.

Hejdå!