Taken from the blog Mutant Action

Use LED lights for growing plants when sunlight is not available?
This lighting technology can be very advantageous for terrariums: efficient, low energy consumption, little heat and last much.

How do they work?
Each plant pigment absorbs certain colors of light better than others. Chlorophyll absorbs red light very well and the blue, but not the green as the plants use chlorophyll for photosynthesis, the process is more efficient with red and blue light than with the equivalent of green light.

The classic growth lamps (HID, incandescent, fluorescent), used for indoor cultivation, producing a light with a wavelength of 380 nm (UV) to about 880 nm (infrared lamps).
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XII NATIONAL MEETING AIPC 2009

Villa Widmann - Mira 20-21 June 2009

After the "proof" of 2007 and after the amazing success of 2008, thanks to which the Italian Association has left an important trace between European associations, this year we find ourselves in the salt and light among the trees of Villa Widmann Mira (Venice).
For those unable to share the wonderful experience of the 2008 European meeting, a new opportunity 'to breathe the same enthusiasm, the same solidarity', the same sense of belonging to a great association, and that ', first of all, a set of fans and friends, a unique and outstanding share a passion for the wonderful carnivorous plants, but also a pleasant way to tell who does not know them, to spread this passion, to live together for two days of carefree joy.

For those there 'was last year, nothing better than to bring out the orange shirt and charging their beloved plants in the car to return to live in one of the most' beautiful experiences that AIPC has been able to offer its members .
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Fabio D'Alessi
AIPC Italian Association of Carnivorous Plants

Introduction to the cultivation

After learning to recognize the main kinds of carnivorous plants, we now learn the cultivation of the species at least simpler.

For hundreds of years, since the first attempts at cultivation, carnivorous plants have always been considered difficult to grow plants. Difficult to hold, difficult to play, almost impossible to raise a seed.

This occurred because the explorers often reported that these plants in Europe is not accompanied by information about the plants where they are. Carnivorous plants, thus, ended grown as if they were of normal roses, dying in a very short time.

Fortunately, as they have accumulated more data on the native environments of these plants and that they try to artificially reproduce the natural conditions are more favorable to their growth, it was discovered that carnivorous plants are not, in general, so difficult to grow as it might seem. They are special, not difficult. Read more ...

Fabio D'Alessi
AIPC Italian Association of Carnivorous Plants

We continue from last issue, the article on carnivorous plants. After the introduction and presentation of the varieties, we continue with the categorization.

PLANTS WITH TRAP AT pitcher

And here we enter the realm of "cute little" to the realm of "great and wonderful."

First, what is' a trap to pitcher? Technically the pitcher and 'a leaf amended so as to form a kind of container with the shape more' or less of a glass. Here the prey is trapped and digested slowly. The pitcher and 'made from leaves that fold in on themselves and they close. Read more ...

Fabio D'Alessi
AIPC Italian Association of Carnivorous Plants

Carnivorous plants are plants that eat animals.

Sara 's true? Defined so 'might seem monstrous and dangerous beings. Indeed and 'so', but the "animals" that feed on these plants are mostly 'no more insects' larger than a wasp or a fly.
That 'the reason why we often use the term insectivorous plants, and certainly less bloody awesome.

For the truth ', carnivorous plants need insects to feed on.' Are plants, in fact, that in nature live in environments particularly poor of those nutrients necessary to the growth of all plants. The find in swamps, bogs acid on bare rocks, clinging to trunks of other plants, underwater ... Carnivorous plants can survive in this barren and inhospitable environments obtaining their nutrients from insects. In this way, even if the soil and 'sterile, these plants are nonetheless able to grow and multiply. Read more ...