I need help with my son’s Venus flytrap!! He just got it before going to stay with his grandparents for 2 weeks and will be devastated if it’s dead when he returns! Top left photo was when we got it 10 days ago. Top right photo was 7 days ago, right after I repotted from the nursery pot. I repotted in a clay pot using Omitgoter brand “Premium Carnivorous Plant Soil”. The pot has been sitting in a shallow bowl of distilled water outside in full sun (zone 6b) since. I have since learned that clay pots are not ideal, but am hesitant to cause more transplant shock by repotting again. The bottom photo was taken yesterday. The top of the soil is damp to the touch. The plant has caught 2 insects and the traps opened before digestion was complete. Both traps died. It currently has 2 closed traps. I believe I can see an insect in 1 when I shine a flashlight at the trap. I am uncertain if there is an insect in the other.

Jay

3 months ago

It always amazes me how quickly Drosera grow! This guy hitchhiked in on a Pinguicula a few months ago, and is literally 5x the size now! I would have shown y’all a cool time lapse of him catching a bug, but unfortunately planta doesn’t support videos ;-;

Bret

3 months ago

I made the girls their very own bog!

Citruslemmon

3 months ago

While it’s not Carnivorus, the ant plant is a mutually beneficial species with ants! It provides housing and nectar, and the ants provide protection from pests and fertilizer! Super excited to grow this!

Panini

3 months ago

Hello! I was wondering what everyone’s favorite carnivorous plants in their collection is right now! Post it in the comments! I would love to see them

Panini

3 months ago

Oh my. I think butterworts might be one of my new favorites

VenusFT

3 months ago

Hi! so i got my first carni 7 days ago and ive been doing everything right, grow light, distilled water, ect, but lots of her traps are turning black, is this normal!?

golden knights fan

3 months ago

I went to my local plant convention this year. I got this fanged nepenthe and this Sarracenia

Megleigh1012

3 months ago

Hello! I just purchased my first two carnivorous plants today 😊 what are the best recommendations for soil? I don’t know how soon these should be repotted but just want to be prepared

Panini

3 months ago

New pitcher on my new plant!

Panini

3 months ago

Nepenthes Veitchii is about to make its first flower!

B - Ohio

3 months ago

My son's Venus flytrap is trying to flower, but I believe that weakens this plant correct? He's already really struggling after we accidentally left him in the sun too long and it had a bad sunburn.

Is it normal for some traps to die after I feed my Venus? I just got her a few days ago and some of the other traps turned black and the rest of the plant seems wilty? I have her in sphagnum moss and perlite, I just fed her yesterday and she’s in a south facing window but I’m kinda scared it’s not enough light considering there’s a fence pretty close to my window and I have light refracting privacy film on it. So is it not enough light or the fact that I fed her?

Nikiller

3 months ago

Added another nepenthes to the collection. The one on the left we got today and the other one is from a couple weeks ago. I don’t have any clue what kind of nepenthes either of these are but that won’t stop me from keeping them happy!

My pinguicula growing mini pinguiculas right on the leaf?!?! I had no idea this could happen I’m nerding out right now.

clairabotanica

3 months ago

pinguicula agnata x gypsicola in bloom 💜