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RE: New Plants for Free 🌿 One Crowded Pot
Here’s my poor Venus flytrap i tried with good light and only distilled or rainwater, but it still withered away. Not sure what I did wrong.
Here’s my poor Venus flytrap i tried with good light and only distilled or rainwater, but it still withered away. Not sure what I did wrong.
Hmm. It looks healthy in the picture. I lost a few when I started with Venus fly traps. What I am about to say is now negated because my Venus are outdoors and tolerate rain storms plus all that nature throws at them.
Over watering can be a problem. I water all my carnivorous plants by putting water in the catch pan, I mean, I put water in the pan and it is soaked up from the bottom - never from the top. Also, it is normal for them to wither once per year. They are like perennial flowers, the ones that have bulbs that you plant. These plants draw all the greenery into their bulb before winter, the leaves wither, then they come back when the weather starts to warm up again.
If the plant looks dead, do not throw it away, it may be that it is in its dormant phase.
See my more recent post. I repotted a Sarracenia and I removed the moss from around the plant (surface moss). I do that because it impacts the purity of the plant's environment.
Feeding dead bugs to a Venus: it is not good to put a dead bug to a Venus. The trap will not seal shut and the plant loses a lot of energy when it sends digestive juices to an unsealed trap. They need the insect to keep triggering the hairs inside the trap. Digestion will be efficient when the trap is totally sealed shut.
Lastly, if you were feeding it, that could be the problem. Each trap has between 1 and 4 catches. Mine catch a lot of small prey, so each trap will feed 3 or 4 times and then the trap turns black. That is normal. If the plant catches a wasp, it will only eat that wasp. Then that trap is done.
Thanks for the tips.
Good to know about watering from the bottom and that dormancy is normal.
I’ll also stop trying with dead bugs, makes sense now. Appreciate your advice