Look what I was given today... This should make for hours of fun...
Venus Fly Trap Plant
Apparently I'm old enough
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Instructions look easy enough
Place the compressed soil in the bottom...
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pour 2 cups of distilled water
It absorbs the water
and you flatten it all out after making sure it is completely saturated.
These are from seeds...
very tiny seeds
and now we wait and wait
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I used to keep several of them. But my apartment was so clean, there were never any bugs for them to eat, so I had to harvest them from outside. ;)
once they mature, transplant them into the forest and viola! no more bugs the bother the misses!
They haven't hatched yet....
FINALLY.. Carl called from home and said he thinks they are hatching.....
super cool! Great pictures Tony!
Looked how it went down.....
Awesome....just awesome.
Someone should help me pick some cool music tracks to dub over the spiders mishaps...
hahaha - cool - great video Tony!
The Venus Fly Trap went dormant over the winter. now that spring is on the way the plant is starting to grow again... Looks like it should be transplanted.
I found this page in google.
http://www.flytrapcare.com/media-soi...fly-traps.html
Occasionally over the winter I would spot a spider in the house..
You can usually catch them and feed them to the plant.
After a few days the trap opens up and is ready for another bug.
We had one that did great all summer, I let it go dormant over the winter, but I don't have anything close to what you have. Holy cow!
Have you been feeding it bugs over the winter? Every so often if I found a spider I would feed an open trap.
I should cut the flower stalks off. I don't really want seeds and the stalk uses a lot of energy that the plant stored up.
Check this out
Propagation Through Flower Stalk
http://www.flytrapcare.com/phpBB3/pr...lk-t14470.html
Cloning flytraps at home (non-TC vegetative propagation)
http://www.flytrapcare.com/phpBB3/post162748.html
How To Care For a Venus Flytrap : Venus Flytrap Leaf Cutting Propagation
Each of these flower stalks can become another plant
Looks simple enough.
Cloning flytraps at home (non-TC vegetative propagation)
That site recommends 1:1 mixture of Peat Moss and Perlite...
These were both available at Clinton and French...
$4.99 + $6.49
1:1 means an even mixture of both...
Mixed it up before wetting it down.
Used about a 1/3 of a gallon of distilled water. Filled six small pots but didn't pack the soil at all. Left it loose.
Snipped the flower stalks off as that site said to.
They recommended rooting compound. I have had the same container for years...
You just dip the end of the cut part of the stalk...
I put each stalk in about a 1/2" deep. The pots are sitting in at food tray that came from Wegman's filled with distilled water to keep the soil moist.
In a day or two re-pot the rest of the plant. I think there are 3 separate plants now..
The heat and rain seems to have down the plant good
March 27th 2012
Today, July 20th 2013
These are excellent for holding bugs...
Went into the woods and brought back insects...
Just had to push it in a little so it didn't get out...
Good lighting causes the traps to turn red...
Centipedes are good food too.
All gone
A week or so from now it will open again.
Res be careful, someone will turn you in to PETA...
I don't think peta has issue with insects.. insects are supposed to be a good source of protein
The venus fly trap has been dormant for the last couple of months.
It is placed on a window sill that stays rather cool over the winter. You will noticed the redish pigment faded on the traps due to less sunlight compared to outdoors in the summer...
Only maintenance I've been doing is keeping the water relatively clean and changed. I only use Wegman's distilled water.
http://www.wegmans.com/prodimg/093/500/077890252093.jpg
When the water in the cup gets to about this level.
I lay the plant on it's side so I don't damage the roots. Then I dump it, wipe the slime out of the cup and rinse it with some distilled water. No tap water. Before placing the plant back into the cup I slowly pour about a cup of distilled water through the plant so it drains through the pot and roots. Basically I don't want any organics building up in the pot or cup where the water sits...
I fill up the cup and place the plant back in.
There is definitely more than one plant now.
This is neat.
Seems the video is gaining incoming traffic. Over 17,000 views
It is finally time I had to transplant the Venus Fly trap
There were so many new plants in the pot that some were starting to rot.
I'm going to put some plants into Sphagnum Moss and others into a mixture 50/50 mix of Perlite and Peat Moss. When you purchase these items you need to make sure there are no additives.
Before I started I mixed up the perlite/peat moss so that it would absorb water. I only use distilled water because the people who grow these for a living recommend distilled or rain water.
Hard part was not to damage the roots..
I put some distilled water into a tray and spent 45 minutes gently pulling the plants apart. The roots on these are very delicate. I also used scissors and removed what rotted stems I could.
When I was finished I had over 10 plants. Some healthy some not so much
When I was all done I had this:
I'm going to leave them under the grow lights for a few days next to our lunch and then put them outside.