Venus flytrap?

Question

i've brought a venus flytrap and i don't know how to look after it. Does anyone know how to look after them.

Also at the moment it is inside my house and i'm not sure whether i should keep it outside.

Answer 1

Besides high humidity, they are adapted to growing in very poor soil, so they do not need fertilizer - the plant gets its nitrogen and other nutrients from what it digests in the traps.

Answer 2

tehy can live submersed in water for months... you cant over water it, but dont over do it. keep it moist. in a dome bowl, with sand, spahgnum moss, and soil, about 1/4 sand, 1/4 spahgnum, and 2/4 soil,, keep it hot, but not too hot. you can buy bugs at etsmart, there ment for lizards and reptiles but you can use the smallest crickets they have. maybe like 2ce a week a dead cricket..

Answer 3

We had one & they are very hard to grow. They need to be indoors in full sunlight (try an east or west window). They need to be well watered-not flooded. I would also suggest making a dome for humidity-they love that. Good luck.

Answer 4

Congratulations on your new plant! There are three major points to keeping a Venus fly trap healthy.

1) Sunlight

2) Water

3) Soil

Venus fly traps like lots of light. Try to give it at least 4 hours of direct sunlight a day. The more you can give it the better. It is best to grow your fly trap outside where it can get plenty of sun and catch its own food.  If you bought it from a store where it was inside, you will have to acclimate it to sunlight by putting it in shade for a few days, then give it an hour of sunlight one day, a couple hours the next day, etc.

Venus fly traps need clean water. Usually tap water will not do. It is best to use distilled water, rain water, or reverse osmosis water. Venus fly traps need water with a TDS (total dissolved soilds) measurement of 50 ppm (parts per million) or less. In order to get this, you probably need to use distilled water or reverse osmosis water or rain water. Their soil should be kept wet at all times. It is best to use a tray and set the plant in about 1/2 inch of water. Humidity isn't that important. Fly traps can live fine in low humidity conditions. I have about a hundred plants and I live in Colorado where the humidity in the summer is very low. They do great so long as they get plenty of sunlight and clean water.

I would guess that your plant came potted already, so the media that it is potted in is probably fine. But if you need to repot it, which wouldn't be a bad idea, you should use a combination of peat moss and perlite.

Good luck with your fly trap and enjoy growing it!

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