VENUS FLY TRAPS???? tips

Londoner

Londoner

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i love these plants but with all my years of growing knowledge behind me, iv never been able to keep one alive for much longer than a few months, i fed one a big fly once and the trap went all black and shriveled and this spread down to the rest of the plant overnite! was wondering if theres any venus flytrap boffins on here that can give me some tips. i know your not supposed to feed in there water and all and i know they like a certain ph of soil but dont know what that ph is, i could just google it but i thought it may help others who grow them to have a thread about them here.
 
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Senor SmokeAlot

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oh man i've always wanted one of these ever since i was little. they look so cool and are just crazy, a plant eating bugs and the way these plants do it is insance. sorry i cant help ive never atcually kept any plants. but would love to get one of these bad boys
 
Londoner

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Senor SmokeAlot said:
oh man i've always wanted one of these ever since i was little. they look so cool and are just crazy, a plant eating bugs and the way these plants do it is insance. sorry i cant help ive never atcually kept any plants. but would love to get one of these bad boys
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yea i love them as much as my weed plants, they sell them down my local garden centre, thinking maybe its the soil they put them in is wrong, been looking into other carnivorous plants too, true natural insect control.
 
Londoner

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misshestermoffitt said:
I haven't had one of those since I was a kid. Guess what I'm buying as soon as I find one.

How to grow and care for Venus Fly Trap.
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cool info miss, il have a good read of that a bit later, just brushed over the bit about how to kill venus flytraps and how force feeding them will kill them, oops, lol i couldnt help it, it hadnt caught a fly in the two months i had it, it was on the windowsill in full sun morning to evening with no feed in its water and i thought it must of been hungry! and noticed it says they flower too, never seen a flytrap flower but it also says allowing it to flower will kill it, still i think it would be worth it to see it flower!
 
misshestermoffitt

misshestermoffitt

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I thought the same thing, get a couple and let one flower for kicks. I wonder if you let the flower bloom just to see it then cut the flower off right away if the plant will regenerate itself.

Now you've got me on this Venus Flytrap thing. LOL
 
Londoner

Londoner

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check out all the other carnivorous plants out there, theres some real cool weird ones i wana get, love to get them from seed and start them off myself rather than buying an actual plant. rite im off, got some potting up to do.
 
upabove

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I have venus fly traps in my garden too. They seem to be sensitive to there conditions, I keep mine behind my grow pots in the shade and were theres less of a breeze so bugs can land on them easier. They tend to dry up quick to.
 

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Londoner

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cool you have it outside too, your traps look very green, mine always seem to go red/purple inside the trap.
 
misshestermoffitt

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Nice photo Upabove. It looks really healthy. Is it a younger plant?

I think pitcher plants are cool looking. Those monkey cups are badass !!! I love the way the flytraps at the Hampshire site are red.

Man I really want a Venus Flytrap now......
 
Londoner

Londoner

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think i mite go buy one tomorrow, il have to look for decent one though, theyre mostly always manky lookin ones down my local homebase.
 
Londoner

Londoner

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misshestermoffitt said:
Ii'm thinking of one or 2 in my grow cabinet, I keep getting these little gnats flying around. Natural pest control would be great.
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my thoughts exactly, still havent had time to read that care guide you posted yet, but i wonder how they would fair under grow room conditions, would they do better in veg or flower rooms, 18/6 or 12/12? would they prefer the ecolites in my veg room or my 600 in the bloom room?
 
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I was going to use them in my veg section. That's where I keep my wet sponge for humidity and I pretty sure the guide said they like a lot of humidity. I admit I found and posted the guide, but only skimmed through it myself.

I have a bunch of empty aquariums, if I can get a flytrap to live for at least a year I was thinking of making a terrarium out of one and trying some of those other plants too.
 
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