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title: "Would anyone tell me how often I should water my Venus Fly Trap? I…"
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# Would anyone tell me how often I should water my Venus Fly Trap? I…

_Gepostet von Simply\_Shelby1820 am 2025-04-28_

Would anyone tell me how often I should water my Venus Fly Trap? I just watered it yesterday and I read somewhere that the soil should remain moist. So is that like everyday? What should I do?

TIA! 🪴

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## 14 Kommentare

### Wolfen 🐺 kommentierte am 2025-04-28

It should be in a water tray(distilled, rain or R/O water). These are Bog plants.

#### Simply\_Shelby1820 antwortete am 2025-04-28

Would a big bowl work? I don’t have a tray.

#### Wolfen 🐺 antwortete am 2025-04-28

Anything that holds water, i have a few in cups or trays or bowls. The size doesnt matter, just keep the water full 1/2 way up the pot

### Melikeplants kommentierte am 2025-04-28

I put mine in a cup of distilled water

#### Simply\_Shelby1820 antwortete am 2025-04-28

How big of a cup?

#### Melikeplants antwortete am 2025-04-28

About and half an inch wider than the pot in all directions (I use a small plastic pot)

#### Melikeplants antwortete am 2025-04-28

And fill it up around an inch

### Melikeplants kommentierte am 2025-04-28

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#### Simply\_Shelby1820 antwortete am 2025-04-28

If you do a very tiny tap on the very tip are they actually supposed to close up? Or can only bugs trigger them?

#### Melikeplants antwortete am 2025-04-28

So you would have to poke the inside to get it to close

#### Simply\_Shelby1820 antwortete am 2025-04-28

How often do you put water in your pot for the plant to soak from?

#### Melikeplants antwortete am 2025-04-28

I let the cup be empty for about a day before refilling it

### Melikeplants kommentierte am 2025-04-28

The traps only close if two of the hairs in them are stimulated at the same time

### Wolfen 🐺 kommentierte am 2025-04-28

The hairs inside the trap trigger the trap closing. And you want to avoid that if possible. If you feed, feed different traps. As once they are triggered 3x they generally die off

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