Gnat trap in bloom
 

Pinguicula moranensis (a Mexican butterwort that is very easy to work with).

https://i.imgur.com/Sq79Frj.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/soOwuCZ.jpg

Another type that does a good job, but just won't bloom.

https://i.imgur.com/ze3QM2r.jpg

Pinguicula agnata

https://i.imgur.com/Dc9Wqdk.jpg

P. moranensis

https://i.imgur.com/fKOjtDo.jpg

so cool!! thank you for sharing

Still going strong
 

P. moranensis steadily throwing flowers. Removed 4 spent flowers thus far, and it has produced four more flowers. A fun plant to work with, and great with trapping fungus gnats.

https://i.imgur.com/7a99R5N.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/K9ombSM.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/vAY0THN.jpg


Another small butterwort - Pinguicula emarginata

https://i.imgur.com/0JI2O7V.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/IiDUTvb.jpg

Your pings are potted in... Bark? I did not know you could do that. Mine are in soil, in a cup w unfertilized water. They bloom constantly and grow like widfire.

Beauty!

Yep, I can definitely relate to "grow like wildfire".

No bark. Three inch net pots filled 3/4 (from the bottom toward the top of pot) with sphagnum, the other 1/4 (to the top of pot) is a mixture of finely sifted peat & sand with a thin top dressing of small aquarium gravel. Net pot is inserted into a cup holder (made for poker tables - solid no holes). Inside of the cup holder > half full of distilled H2O, and then the net pot is inserted into the cup holder.

Thanks, appreciate the compliment.

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There are plants that eat gnats?! Just looked this up, oh my, there's a "gigantica" version. Do they need to be babied?

Subdued with a whip and chair, not babied.

Could not have been versed better :)

They really come through for me, and do a good job. Pinguicula gigantea can definitely become a "a big boy" when mature. They are truly butterwort giants.


P. agnata doing its thing.

https://i.imgur.com/zXjaqCN.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/1ny197N.jpg

That's hilarious :) They actually look like real pretty plants, even when digesting hundreds of bugs.
Is there a reason more people don't grow these at home to help control fungus gnats?
I've found some growing information, but what I'm seeing is that they are indoors only? Expanding search to butterwort suggest there might be some "cold hardy" versions. Not that it gets cold here in southern california :)
Hmmm. This is fascinating!