http://flytrapgrowing.info how to care for your Venus flytrap Tue, 31 Aug 2010 04:16:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We're at week 14 in our experiment into the effects of water quality on the growth of Venus flytraps. Our plants are looking good and have changed significantly since our last report. Specimen A: low light, distilled water The maximum trap size for specimen A, our distilled water fed plant, is now ... http://flytrapgrowing.info/growing-in-poor-conditions-week-14/ Our experiment has entered it's sixth week and will be shortly heading into the middle of the summer when they will be exposed to the most sun. The test plants are looking fairly healthy but have lost some of the red colouration from their leaves in comparison to our control plant ... http://flytrapgrowing.info/dionaea_experiment_wk6/ To mimic the normal treatment Venus flytraps receive in the home, I caught a few flies today and fed them to each of our test plants. Regular house flies were used. I used a pair of tweezers to place the flies in the traps and quickly removed the tweezers as ... http://flytrapgrowing.info/feeding-time/ The Venus flytraps for "Growing in poor conditions" experiment have been purchased. We purchased them for NZ$10.99 from the "Red Barn" garden center in Dunedin, New Zealand. They have nice big red traps and are looking relatively healthy at the moment. Specimen A: Distilled water The total number of traps was five, ... http://flytrapgrowing.info/growing-in-poor-conditions-2/ Many of the experts claim that growing Venus flytraps in shaded, dry indoor areas is difficult/impossible. So here at flytrapgrowing.info we are going to conduct some experiments to demonstrate what effects poor conditions have on Venus flytraps. Many complete novices report having their flytraps survive torturous conditions, out of the ... http://flytrapgrowing.info/growing-in-poor-conditions-1/