How not to check if your plant is dead
In our previous article “How to tell when your Venus flytrap has died” we explained how to determine if your Venus flytrap is dead. Of course many of you may have arrived here too late and have already been poking around in the soil, checking your plants root system etc. trying to determine if it is dead, dying or just dormant. For the health of your plant and to save you having to buy another one, please do not go poking around in the soil unless you are doing it for a various specific purpose (ie: repotting after you have read up on how and why to repot your plant). By poking around in the soil, your plant which may have only been a little unhealthy, or even just dormant may quickly die due to the stress that moving it around in the soil can cause. It takes very little to stress a Venus flytrap and poking around in the soil is a sure fire way to finish it off for good.