When I first started to grow Carnivorous Plants in the early 2000's, I did not do more then ID my plants in the pots.
As years went by a fellow CP grower made a program in the mid to late 2000's to track more information on the CPs in your collection. It was called CP-GrowList. I do not think this is anywhere to download any more.
This was neat because you were able to keep track of who you got it from, cost, activity, etc.
Some screen shots.
So back in 2017 I finally made room for some cactus and succulents. I now grow very few CP's.
Problem with the tracking program, it was only designed for CPs.
I looked around to see if there was any programs out there to keep track of this, but did not find anything. Maybe with this post someone will point me in a neat program to use... although I have close to half my collection now entered into the pages I made up...
So I made a growlist in Excel (OpenOffice to be exact) to keep track of when / how much / where I got the plant from. Made individual tabs for the different types, such as Carnivorous / Air Plants / Cactus...
I did not have a good way to keep track of activity on plants such as repotting / dividing...
So I ended up making a template that can be used for every plant in my collection and linked it to the growlist. All I need to do is click on the name in the growlist and it opens the page for that individual plant and I can input all the information I want / need to.
Able to get rid of cost / purchase / etc on the growlist and just have the plant names there.
When I click on a plant name, it opens the info screen for that plant.
With a large collection of plants it takes some time to enter in all the info. I guess any program this would happen.
If anyone uses Open Office and interested in the template I can figure out a way to make it available.
