How To Care For a Venus Flytrap : Transplanting Venus Flytraps

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Transplanting Venus Fly Traps is easy with these tips, learn all about caring for carnivorous plants in this free video. Expert: Wes Major Contact: www.equilibriocarnivorousplants.com Bio: Wes Major has extensive experience in working with nearly every species of carnivorous plant. He has several years of hands on experience in the cultivation and maintenance of these plants. Filmmaker: Christian Munoz-Donoso

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in what do we transplant it?

We've fed my co-workers plant twice and the trap opens up with the sucked dry fly in it, which he removes and the leaf stays green ready for the next bug. One large fly did turn the trap black and the leaf fell off with the bug in it. We think the fly was too large.

And too bad

Cool

lol a bowl?...... that kinda sucks.. like just abandoned it there

1.- Water should be distilled. 2.- If they are dormant you should place it in a cold plae 5° Celsius is perfect 3.- They go in dormancy at mid November and 3 months later at spring will vigorously give lots of traps plus 1 flower head. 4.- I recomend to cut the flower as it takes a lot of the bulb's energy if the plant is old and nearly dying then let it grow and it will auto pollinate itself and give dosens of seeds. Good luck!!

I had one mailed to me as a gift. They are 3 plants in 1 pot, but they are really small. It was doing good for a while, but 2 months later and they are dieing! Turning brown and shriveling up. When they were mailed they were dormant, and when I put them in my box window with my orchids they started putting off some new growth. But now I'm not sure. I was watering with bottled water. But now that I have seen it doing so bad, I double checked and the water is not distilled! Going to change that.

stress or wrong soil most likely use peet moss and make sure moss grows around the plant

Glass bowl is a fail.

just tried to transplant my fly trap, found this video AFTER I just winged it on my own.... may or may not have just killed it :(

@CarmineXCog I use ONLY pure long-fiber sphagnum moss, if I have some sitting around. Otherwise I use ONLY sphagnum peat, not perlite and vermiculite. They grow just fine.

@istiefel222 you dont need to feed it anything

@Tuqiri13 You were probably stupid enough to use average potting soil (the one you use for your garden or something) And expected to get results. Peat moss is the only soil those plants tolerate - and it's a good idea to mix it with perlite / quartz sand or dry / live sphagnum.

it's perlite not pear light

I just bought a trap a few days ago and it's already grown at least five leaves with a few new ones coming in, is it safe to transplant it after about a week? The container it's in now is so small...

Do you REALLY have to wait years to transplant it to the bowel? I'm getting one tomorrow and the ones they have in the store are in little plastic tubes and don't look very comfortable....

Another point to note is that it really isn't necessary to 'feed' the plant. Give the flytrap some outdoor time and it'll likely catch it's own food. People tend to feed items that are too big for the trap. If you really insist on feeding, try culturing vestigial winged fruitflies. But as long as the plant has been acclimated to direct sunlight, it will thrive being outside as long as the moisture requirements are kept in check. They are really quite hardy when you get the hang of it.

I think I can clarify a few misunderstandings. First of all, after a trap has caught an insect and digested it, the trap is quite likely to die. I can't remember ever seeing a trap recover after eating. That doesn't mean the plant is in danger, it is the natural cycle of the plant. You'll notice that new traps will grow fairly quickly in it's place. Beware of feeding some grasshoppers as they contain keytones sort of like kerosene which isn't good for the plant.

i'm gonna do this