If you are wondering how and what to feed a venus flytrap plant, the menu is pretty simple. About once a month or even longer, you can feed your flytrap some bugs! The most common meal fed to a venus flytrap plant is flies. Surely you can come up with a half dead, wiggly fly from time to time, right? If you don't have a fly, you can try feeding your venus flytrap a spider or a cricket.
You want to avoid beetles, caterpillars and a few others.
Never feed your venus flytrap hamburger meat or chicken. I am not sure why some people do this or tell others to do this, but it is bad for your plant!
Remember, your flytrap may not need to eat more than once a month. So, don't panic if 5 or 6 weeks go by and it is not interested in a meal. Especially during the dormancy period.
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Saturday, January 16, 2010
Venus Flytrap Dormancy Coming to an End!
The dormancy period of the Venus Flytrap is coming to an end. Are you ready to let your flytrap come to life again? In mid-February it will be time to shed a little more light on your plant. Not yet, but I just wanted you to be ready. Maybe a new venus flytrap terrarium is in order to celebrate the coming out party?
Right now, you should have your plant enjoying a nice, restful dormancy period. It does not require complete darkness, just a place out of direct sunlight. Someplace like a dark porch or garage.
Right now, you should have your plant enjoying a nice, restful dormancy period. It does not require complete darkness, just a place out of direct sunlight. Someplace like a dark porch or garage.
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
What if My Venus Flytrap is not Hungry?
Why Won't My Venus Flytrap Eat?
That is a real possibility. There is most likely nothing wrong. A Venus Flytrap Plant does not need to eat daily or anything close to that. Feed it a bug once a month or so. If it won't accept the food you are offering, simply wait a week and try again. No big deal. Make sure it is something that your venus flytrap likes, like flies!
When you are feeding your plant a fly, are you wiggling it? You need to make sure the inner hairs are stimulated. At least two hairs in a row. This lets the plant know that it has really got something.
That is a real possibility. There is most likely nothing wrong. A Venus Flytrap Plant does not need to eat daily or anything close to that. Feed it a bug once a month or so. If it won't accept the food you are offering, simply wait a week and try again. No big deal. Make sure it is something that your venus flytrap likes, like flies!
When you are feeding your plant a fly, are you wiggling it? You need to make sure the inner hairs are stimulated. At least two hairs in a row. This lets the plant know that it has really got something.
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Do I have to touch bugs?
You may be wondering if you have to touch live bugs. Well, your flytrap really would prefer live bugs. Surely you can find a fly or spider in your windowsill or outside. Get yourself a pair of tweezers that will be used to pick up bugs to feed your venus flytrap. Just be sure to hide them after you use them! If someone in your household uses them for personal hygiene by accident, you will be in trouble! And you are on your own with that problem!
If you must feed your flytrap dead bugs, you will have to wiggle them around a little. This mimics the motion of a live bug that triggers the hairs inside the trap. This makes it close.
Stay tuned for "What to Feed a Venus Flytrap" next time.
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If you must feed your flytrap dead bugs, you will have to wiggle them around a little. This mimics the motion of a live bug that triggers the hairs inside the trap. This makes it close.
Stay tuned for "What to Feed a Venus Flytrap" next time.
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Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Basic Venus Flytrap Care Information
Basic Venus Flytrap Care Information
If you have just gotten or are going to get a Venus Flytrap, you are in luck! They are one of the easiest carnivorous plants to grow! In fact, they do poorly when they are given too much attention.
Venus flytrap plants thrive with:
If you have just gotten or are going to get a Venus Flytrap, you are in luck! They are one of the easiest carnivorous plants to grow! In fact, they do poorly when they are given too much attention.
Venus flytrap plants thrive with:
- High Humidity. If you keep your plants roots moist and make it a nice home in a terrarium, aquarium or fish bowl, this should create the perfect amount of humidity. If you need more, just spray a fine mist of distilled water over your plant daily. Make sure your container (terrarium) has a small opening for air to circulate.
- Poor acidic soil. Do not add fertilizer.
- Full Sunlight 6-8 hours a day. Be careful here. If your Venus Flytrap starts to wilt, you may need to reduce the amount of hours it is in the sunlight. Of course, this does not apply during dormancy.
- Feed it a live bug (or a dead one, but you will have to mimic life) now and then. Your flytrap may need one or two bugs a month, that is it.
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