How do you take care of a Venus Fly Trap?
Question:i have one.
Answers:
Not to Tisk Tisk you, but why get such a difficult plant, if you don't know how to take care of it? In all likely hood, it's going to die from improper care.
That aside, recreate it's natural growing conditions.
Grow them in very bright, but not direct sunlight. (reflect the sun off of something white for example)
They need High humidity. Do you have a terrarium set up for it?
Don't feed it hamburger or anything besides a fly or cricket 3 or so times a month.
Remove dead stems to stop the plant from rotting.
Don't spring the fly traps because it's neat. (even though it really is!) it weakens the plant over time.
I hope it does well! They are amazing plants. It's a real treat to find one in the wild.
When you buy your flytrap, it may be in a small pot with a dome cover. As long as the plant is potted in the appropriate potting mixture you can leave it, although a larger terrarium will give you room for several additions (and you will probably find you want more vft).
If you are going to grow your flytrap outdoors, you will probably want to repot it in a larger, sturdy pot with other flytrap. Keep the pot in a saucer with water covering the bottom of the pot at all times. When you first put your plant outside, keep it out of direct sunlight until it is acclimated and then you can move it to stronger light. Never put a dome over an outside plant that will be in sunlight, it will fry!
A good potting mixture for Venus Fly trap is 60% peat moss and 40% perlite or clean sand. Always water your Venus Flytrap from the tray if it's in a pot or, if in a terrarium, use a spray bottle and wet the top of the potting mixture well. Terrarium kept plants that are top-dressed with sphagnum moss will probably not require too frequent a watering, although a light, daily misting is appreciated.
Never water your Venus Flytrap with tap water, the chlorine is poison to it. Use bottled distilled water or collect rain water, but not water that has run off your roof. If you must use tap water, collect the water and let it set out for several days to allow the chlorine to evaporate as much as possible.
i once had one and it died!
Heres what i should have done
-watered it 3 times a week (you should be able to how much - the soil shoudn't be soaked)
-if you dont live in an area where ther are lots of flies buzzing around maybe kill them then feed your plants?? not to sure
hope it helps
Venus Flytraps are not as hard to grow as people would have you believe. http://www.cobraplant.com/venus-flytrap. These guys know there stuff! I always tried to grow carnivorous plants and failed, until I found Sarracenia Northwest.
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