New to plants and my first one is a not-so-beginner-friendly Venus flytrap 😅. I got it in early February and repotted it about a week later. Now I have only one green trap. The rhizome is still completely white and firm, so it’s not rotting. I also have used only distilled water. Maybe sunlight/temperature is the issue? It is still quite cold where I live, about 30°F average daily temperature. Although we’re finally entering Spring season. Any theories on what happened or advice on how to care for this plant?

Dani

8 months ago

Hello all! I’m new to the group as of (checks watch) 39 seconds ago. I went back to my local nursery on payday to grab a sweet looking monkey pitcher plant I had been eyeballing and the worker said “I’m so mad at myself. I forgot to water, but I’ll give it to you for half off.” I thought about it, but I’m new to carnivorous plants, they need special water, no fertilizer, very specific conditions, and was worried about buying a plant that’s already half-dead looking. So they had this smaller one that was pretty similar looking but only labeled nepenthes, and it looked a lot healthier. I’m bummed but I wanted a new friend to hopefully help with little gnats. I googled the photo and it said this was a “nepenthes x ventrata” variety. I’m in Washington, I have 5 pets, and a drafty or hot 126 year old house depending on the season. It has to go in my kitty-free-room, and I struggle with heating and cooling. I thought about the more humid bathroom but the door closes more of the day than not to keep the tropical divas happier. But I went ahead and bought a small space heater and humidifier. I have Harold (😂) hanging near my window, with a sheer curtain between. The heater is set to 65°, but it was at 40° in my room before - so an improvement. Come summer I’ll have to break out the A/C unit but I can likely set that to 65° too. 🤣 I did give it a good watering as it looked dry as a bone. The nursery said it was potted with moss etc. so that should be good. I kept it in that pot, with a little plastic catcher underneath. With that background: 1) Is that species identification correct? 2) Any advice is appreciated. I did some googling but I like to talk to real people. 3) Google said: - Not to cut off the pitchers unless they were completely black or brown, but you can see the tops are brown and crispy. So …. Is it still catching bugs, or no? - That you can fill the pitchers with distilled water, but I don’t know if I’m supposed to do that? Or how dire it needs to be before I do. - That it’s a pretty easy plant to care for, just let it be and keep it moist ish and the right humidity. Is a humidifier underneath and my space heater enough? Thanks all!

Pik

8 months ago

Just re-potted this guy as he grew to big and his roots where growing out of his old pot. For whatever reason he decided dormancy was for sundew only.

Panini

8 months ago

Fist big pitcher on my sarracenia flava!!

Tayahzee

8 months ago

Hello! My fiancé’s nepenthes is growing quite oddly - it’s producing new pitchers very slowly, most of the ones it did have browned fully so we pruned them, and it seems to be only focused on climbing to the point we had to give it support. We only used distilled water, no fertilizer, and when it had more pitchers we would give it one of my lizard’s mealworms maybe every 1-2 months. Is this normal? What else can we do to help her? First an only carnivorous plant we own and I want to make sure I’m doing right by it. Thank you for any help!!

Cowro

8 months ago

My Venus Flytrap of three years died last week, or that’s what I thought. I was really busy and forgot poor Pete. I came home to notice his soil bone try and every single trap completely black with mold. I dug down and found the rhizome brown as well. Not a singe speck of green was visible. I was planning to throw him out but hadn’t got to it yet when my brother noticed a tiny sprout a week later. I immediately trimmed all of the dead leaves off and another spout appeared a few days later. It’s like a miracle! I can’t believe the resilience of this little guy!

Lucy

8 months ago

My first ping flowers 😍 and one on its way soon

Timmyk

8 months ago

My newest work :)

Citruslemmon

8 months ago

Pings are exploding in population, I almost have too many to know what to do with!! Same with sundews, I have babies absolutely everywhere… one of my Altas had some light burn but it seems to be doing lots better, huge growth on the other one, and my N.(Viking x ampullaria red striped) X N.Red wing hybrid is still thriving and beautiful :]

Panini

8 months ago

I love how pings get so round

Birdperson75

8 months ago

Check out the pitchers on my little Lolo. Ain’t she a beaut?

Hi! I was looking to get into keeping carnivorous plants. Any tips? Any good beginner carnivorous plants? They’re really cool to me

Lvndr

8 months ago

This is my second attempt at owning a flytrap, and not only is she flowering, she even had a tiny baby with her!

🪴 Botanical Bekka🌵

9 months ago

So my son just bought me this I assume it's to stay regular Venus It's in a 2-in pot so It's a little guy still that I was sort of reading up on it and it says that I feed it like say a small mealworm every 2 to 4 weeks And only one of the little pods at a time? And only give RO or distilled water?( I wouldn't trust the rainwater these days js🙄🥴) I have it in my 67 to 70% humidity sunroom at 66° with a fan under a 45w grow light.. now I can find it a spot under the 75 w full spectrum whatever grow lights that I have if needed as well any tips or tricks are much appreciated I'd like to not kill it 🙏🤣 since I just got it from the store basically when do I know when it was fed last and when it's hungry again? 😩FEED ME SEYMOUR! Or do I need to throw it in my unheated 40° laundry room for the winter? I'm in Indiana.. It's cold

ForensicFlora

9 months ago

Audrey II is doing pretty well. I been keeping an eye on her do to the crazy cold snap in Florida. But she managed to snag another little guy today

clairabotanica

9 months ago

Before and after trellising Nepenthes Ventrata

Emilyjune97

9 months ago

So I got a Venus fly trap like 3 weeks ago. I’m about to give up on this one and go get another one unless there’s something I can do to help it. I bought it because I’ve never had one and I always wanted it figured it was like almost every other plant so I brought it home. Started doing research on it and turns out it’s a very advanced plant. I took it out of that terrible pot. It comes in trimmed off all the dead ones inspected it repotted it in a Pete Moss soil. I’ve been keeping it consistently moist and then I found out it’s a bog plant. Meaning have it sitting in a little tray of water so I’ve been doing that using distilled water no fertilizer and it’s still dying so then I found out it has to have direct sunlight which I don’t have anywhere to put it for direct sunlight so I have it under a grow light. Do I have to feed it bugs? I’m honestly very confused of this plant because everything I’m reading is mixed. Is there anything I can do or should I just go buy a new one and restart, knowing the things that I know now and is there anything else I need to know? Also is this “food” good for them where I live in Michigan in winter time is next to impossible to either order live food or pick it up from the store(shipping delays due to cold) Or can I use dried mealworms? Adding a picture of what it looks like now and a description of what type of grow light I have

PattiPlantiPants

9 months ago

🥳🤩🚨New baby pitcher alert 🚨🤩🥳 Somehow Jugs is not only surviving but thriving in our bathroom (w/south facing window) this winter. Considering we have been in the single digits recently here in NC, I consider this a huge win 🤓🪴

Nashville Smashville

9 months ago

Is this moss in my ping bad? I don’t know where it came from. Thank you!!!

ForensicFlora

9 months ago

Got my carnivorous soil and moss mix. From reviews I saw that the soil ppm sometimes is higher than the 50ppm so I washed it with distilled water. Just thought of buying a meter to get better readings while doing this. I removed my VFT (Audrey II) from its store container to find a little baby. So now that makes me a plant grandma 👵🏼 Lets see how well I can grow this little guy Any tips and corrections are welcome as I want to be the best I can.