The Venus Flytrap / How to Grow a Venus FlyTrap : Everything you need to know in 3 minutes.
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The Venus Flytrap / How to Grow a Venus FlyTrap. Everything you need right here...accept the plant. How to grow this carnivorous plant in 3 minutes. Care tips, temp tips, winter tips. Carnivorous plants are plants that derive some or most of their nutrients (but not energy) from trapping and consuming animals or protozoans, typically insects and other arthropods. Carnivorous plants have adapted to grow in places where the soil is thin or poor in nutrients, especially nitrogen, such as acidic bogs and rock outcroppings. Charles Darwin wrote Insectivorous Plants, the first well-known treatise on carnivorous plants, in 1875.[4] True carnivory is thought to have evolved independently six times in five different orders of flowering plants,[5][6] and these are now represented by more than a dozen genera. These include about 630 species that attract and trap prey, produce digestive enzymes, and absorb the resulting available nutrients.[7] Additionally, over 300 protocarnivorous plant species in several genera show some but not all these characteristics. The only two active snap traps—the Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) and the waterwheel plant (Aldrovanda vesiculosa)—are believed to have had a common ancestor with similar adaptations. Their trapping mechanism has also been described as a "mouse trap", "bear trap" or "man trap", based on their shape and rapid movement. However, the term snap trap is preferred as other designations are misleading, particularly with respect to the intended prey. Aldrovanda is aquatic and specialised in catching small invertebrates; Dionaea is terrestrial and catches a variety of arthropods, including spiders.[12] The traps are very similar, with leaves whose terminal section is divided into two lobes, hinged along the midrib. Trigger hairs (three on each lobe in Dionaea muscipula, many more in the case of Aldrovanda) inside the trap lobes are sensitive to touch. When a trigger hair is bent, stretch-gated ion channels in the membranes of cells at the base of the trigger hair open, generating an action potential that propagates to cells in the midrib.[13] These cells respond by pumping out ions, which may either cause water to follow by osmosis (collapsing the cells in the midrib) or cause rapid acid growth.[14] The mechanism is still debated, but in any case, changes in the shape of cells in the midrib allow the lobes, held under tension, to snap shut,[13] flipping rapidly from convex to concave[15] and interring the prey. This whole process takes less than a second. In the Venus flytrap, closure in response to raindrops and blown-in debris is prevented by the leaves having a simple memory: for the lobes to shut, two stimuli are required, 0.5 to 30 seconds apart.[citation needed] The snapping of the leaves is a case of thigmonasty (undirected movement in response to touch). Further stimulation of the lobe's internal surfaces by the struggling insects causes the lobes to close even tighter (thigmotropism), sealing the lobes hermetically and forming a stomach in which digestion occurs over a period of one to two weeks. Leaves can be reused three or four times before they become unresponsive to stimulation, depending on the growing conditions.
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thanks this is a very useful video
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Are crickets from the pet store a good substitute for flys?
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Wait... I live in nc and never in my life have I seen a Venus fly trap and I go hiking a lot
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soo i just leave it out in the snow for winter.
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How do I get rid of small black flying bugs in my tropical terrarium> I am considering a Venus Flytrap.
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Opps you missed me subscribing to you.
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What would be the best carnivorous plant for indoors? or for Houston weather.
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Thanks mate. Very useful tips, specially when you said no burgers!
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Thank you for general advice! I've only grown carrots and other roots on my back yard but I'm ordering seeds and cants wait for soggy summers again.
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So it can survive frost?
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YOU HAVE PICTURE PLANTS! ? ! ?
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hey I live in NJ and I wanted to get a venus fly trap. How do you recommend that I keep it humid enough for your plants to survive?
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when the individual traps die what should you do, should you cut them off? if so how much should you cut the entire stem or just the head part where it catches the bugs
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Hi Brads Green house if I need to take care of the nepenthes plant how do I take care of it and what do I need to buy to take care of it
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You seem like such a chill dude
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what does mean when your dionaea muscipla go black and yellow
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Thanks man I just got one!
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How do u tackle the water the pot rest on which likely to breed mosquito?
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