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Using LED lights to grow 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?
Each plant pigment absorbs certain colors of light better than others. Chlorophyll absorbs red light very well and the blue, but not green as the plant uses chlorophyll for photosynthesis, the process is more efficient in red and the equivalent of blue green light.

The classic growth lamps (HID, incandescent, fluorescent), used for indoor growing, producing light with a wavelength of 380 nm (UV lamp) to approximately 880 nm (infrared lamps).
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XII National Meeting AIPC 2009

Villa Widmann - Mira 20-21 June 2009

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

For those for whom 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 inside 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 Carnivorous Plants

Introduction to the cultivation

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

For hundreds of years, since the first attempts at growing carnivorous plants have always been considered a difficult plant cultivation. Difficult to maintain, difficult to play, almost impossible to give birth to the seed.

This happened because often the explorers who reported such plants in Europe is not environmental information accompanying the plants where they are. Carnivorous plants thus grown ended as if they were the normal rose dying quickly.

Fortunately, As accumulated more data on the native environment of these plants and they try to artificially reproduce the natural conditions are more favorable to their growth, it was discovered that the Carnivorous plants are not generally so difficult to grow as it seems. Details are not difficult. ... Read more

Fabio D'Alessi
AIPC Italian Association 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 traps Ascidians

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

First, what is' a trap for pitcher? Technically, the pitcher and 'a leaf modified to form a kind of container with a more' or less than a glass. Here the prey are trapped and digested slowly. The pitcher and 'produced by the leaves that fold in on themselves, closing. ... Read more

Fabio D'Alessi
AIPC Italian Association Carnivorous Plants

Carnivorous plants are plants that animals eat.

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

To tell the truth ', carnivorous plants eat insects need'. Plants are, in fact, that in nature live in particularly poor in those nutrients needed for growth of all the plants. The find in swamps, bogs in acidic rocks remains, clinging to the trunks of other plants, underwater ... Carnivorous plants can survive in this barren and inhospitable environments obtaining their food by insects. In this way, even if the soil and 'sterile, these plants manage to grow and multiply. ... Read more