Venus Flytrap growing

Carnivorous plants video

Ryan — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 04:16:28 +0000

A beautiful video demonstrating a selection of carnivorous plants up close and personal.

Where to buy flytraps video

Ryan — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 04:39:41 +0000

Thanks to the folks over at Expert Village for this terrific video outlining the best places to buy and grow Venus flytraps.

Caring for your Venus flytrap video

Ryan — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 04:39:10 +0000

Thanks to the folks over at ExpertVillage for this terrific video outlining the best practices for caring for your Venus flytrap.

Trapped – on video!

Ryan — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 04:09:26 +0000

A fascinating video demonstrating a regular house fly being trapped inside a Venus flytrap.

New Cultivars including the Vampire, T-Rex and Great White

Ryan — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 23:34:14 +0000

Unfortunately these cultivars do not actually exist. Many commercial growers rename their Venus flytraps in an attempt to convince people to buy them. However these are almost never officially recognised as real cultivars and are likely only a rebranding of an existing cultivar. For a full run-down on different types of cultivars please check out our article “Cultivars“

Snail vs Venus flytrap

Ryan — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 04:24:59 +0000

Snails with large shells are very poor prey for a Venus flytrap as they are too big and heavy, plus their large shells are totally indigestible. However smaller ones with no (or little) shell are ideal and behave just like a slug. If you can find some, they are handy food for your hungry flytraps. Their slowing moving behaviour makes them significantly easier to manually feed to your plant.

Caring for seedlings

Ryan — Sun, 30 May 2010 23:33:45 +0000

If you have followed our “Plant sex: Growing more flytraps” then you will hopefully have a series of tiny Venus flytrap plantlets growing. These seedlings will take two to three years to grow to a resonable size. In the mean time, your plantlets will not be large enough to catch regular house flies, however luckily they will still be able to catch much smaller bugs to provide them with the nutrience they desire until they can start catching those big blow flys we all love to hate. Conveniently, even if your plantlets do not catch any bugs at all, they should still survive okay and eventualy grow into the huge fly chomping machines we all know and love.

The advice for maintaining your seedlings is essentially the same as for a full-grown plant. Don’t fertilize it, give it plenty of light and make sure it gets plenty of good, clean water.

Treating pests and diseases video

Ryan — Sun, 16 May 2010 04:44:52 +0000

Thanks to the folks over at ExpertVillage for this great video about treating pests and diseases in Venus flytraps.

Pruning your plant video

Ryan — Sat, 01 May 2010 04:43:05 +0000

Thanks to the folks over at ExpertVillage for providing this terrific video about pruning your Venus flytrap.

Venus flytrap music video

Ryan — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 04:08:51 +0000

A music video involving venus flytraps. Who would’ve thought!