Anyone Ever grown Venus Fly Traps ?

goten

goten

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I just bought this little fly trap to keep inside my home , it is in a little pot of sphagnum moss ,

Does anyone here know the best way to grow them ? high nutes , low nutes ect .

Do they flower from a photo period or just flower when ready ,

Also i thought about them been a good pest control for outdoor plants lol , but idk how big they get and how much sun they like

No i have not Googled it , But i will

I was on here on r.i.u already so i figured i would ask right quick , Much thanks you all
 

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dannyboy602

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I saw a terrarium with about thirty or forty plants. They're very cool and need lots of humidity and yeah they eat bugs but they eat so little they wouldn't be an effective pest control and the cycle of closing their modified leaves round their food and digesting their food and then reopening for more food takes a while. MB even weeks but I'm not certain.
 
goten

goten

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Well that shoots the pest control out the door lol

Thanks my man ,

here take some love +rep
 
ClosetGarden

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High humidity, no nutes, distilled or RO water only. Do not feed it hamburger. Moss only substrate. Bring it in during the winter and keep it in a terrarium. They are native to southeastern NC you live in the NC mountains, it'll die due to the cold.
 
goten

goten

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thanks you all

I was reading about them and it said not to feed hamburger lol ,

It also said that maggots , warms wold be ok , but its not necessary to manually feed them

I was hoping it might work for pest control around my plants but D.B informed me in the 2nd post that they wont be any good for that ( oh well )

Maybe ill end up seeing a fly land on it and get to watch it snap close lol
 
Devildog93

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I popped in thinking you were talking about the MJ strain, not the real species. Cool.

I was going to post my pics of my Venus Flytrap MJ plants, then realized what you were talking about.

Sorry nothing to contribute, but interesting thread. Will keep an eye on it.
 
mellokitty

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outdoor pest control = ladybugs.

we let out a couple hundred in the veggie garden a month ago and there are still quite a few around. you just want to give them the sort of environment they'll stick around in and not clean up fallen leaves and other stuff like that for them to hide under etc.
 
goten

goten

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Devildog93 said:
I popped in thinking you were talking about the MJ strain, not the real species. Cool.

I was going to post my pics of my Venus Flytrap MJ plants, then realized what you were talking about.

Sorry nothing to contribute, but interesting thread. Will keep an eye on it.
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Thats why i posted this thread in the gardening thread

Your avi is fucking hilarious .. :lol:


mellokitty said:
outdoor pest control = ladybugs.

we let out a couple hundred in the veggie garden a month ago and there are still quite a few around. you just want to give them the sort of environment they'll stick around in and not clean up fallen leaves and other stuff like that for them to hide under etc.
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I had nature give me my own group of ladybugs a while back

Their was a hole sac of ladybug eggs under one of my N.l leaves lol

The fly trap was more for amusement if it would have worked lol

Let me see if i can find that pic i took of those ladybug eggs

awh here it is lol
 

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goten said:
I just bought this little fly trap to keep inside my home , it is in a little pot of sphagnum moss ,

Does anyone here know the best way to grow them ? high nutes , low nutes ect .

Do they flower from a photo period or just flower when ready ,

Also i thought about them been a good pest control for outdoor plants lol , but idk how big they get and how much sun they like

No i have not Googled it , But i will

I was on here on r.i.u already so i figured i would ask right quick , Much thanks you all
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very nice those plants are great :D
 
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Hasbroh

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Fly traps are very slow at digesting bugs but they are pretty cool plants and are indigenous to a very small area in N. Carolina. They are a little hardier than other carniverous plants but do require decent humidity. I also like the pitcher plants if you are into that sort of thing.
 
ClosetGarden

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Neem oil every seven days applied in the early morning or early evening will handle all of your pest problems and will keep it organic.
 
goten

goten

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ClosetGarden said:
Neem oil every seven days applied in the early morning or early evening will handle all of your pest problems and will keep it organic.
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I have neem oil ,

I never said i had a pest problem my man

I was just seeing if the flytrap would work because i thought it would be cool if it did
 
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