How can I revive a totally dead venus fly trap?
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Comments (4)Hi - You came to the right place! 1. Your plant may not go dormant this winter. Don't worry about it. 2. Keep it very wet and use distilled water or rain water only. Do not use spring or tap water. The plants can't handle the minerals. 3. Very bright light is optimal. Just make sure it isn't going to get real hot where you put it. 4. Do not put it in a terrarium, make sure it has air flow around it. 5. You don't need to feed it. They can survive a long time without bugs and it is probably stressed right now and the trap would just die anyway. It will catch bugs on its own in the Spring. These plants grow in bogs, which means they stay very wet, have plenty of fresh air and full sun (trees can't grow in bogs). Since you're in Colorado, a south facing window would work fine... lots of sun! Have fun!...See MoreVenus Fly Trap Transplant
Comments (11)Hello organic mathew, You can repot it by tapping the pot with your knuckles and press in slightly around the sides of the pot to loosen the soil, then just turn it upside down with your hand over the plant. It should just fall out in your hand. If the old soil is still in good shape, you can just repot it with the soil around it till next spring. It is best to repot them completely in spring as they are just coming out of dormancy. To completely repot them, you can rinse the old soil from their roots carefully as described above (in a tray of distilled water) or just carefully brush the old soil away by hand. Venus Flytraps really are not as easy to kill as all that, but you do not want to break off many roots or damage the rhizome needlessly. If you saw the way carnivorous plants are handled when nurseries repot them you would see that they are not so easy to kill with just a bit of repotting. The main thing is that they should be repotted in the growing season so they can regrow any roots and reestablish themselves before dormancy. Venus Flytraps often like to have a few inches of growing space, so repot into a 4-6 inch pot according to how many plants you want together and how long the roots are growing. They tend to grow larger, faster after repotting and when they have room to grow longer roots....See MoreVenus Fly Trap help (I'm new)
Comments (32)suckerforroses: Patience is key to stratifying seeds of North American plants of any type. In any case, the Venus Flytrap seed should have sprouted by now. That terrarium kit is the worst idea I have seen in all my decades for North American carnivorous plants in any case. First off, it is not for beginners. Second off, carnivorous plant seed rarely take 100 percent, so you rarely have all of the species germinate. Third off, terrariums are the best way to kill carnivorous plants by promoting fungus, reducing the amount of sun they can recieve, and the drainage problems of terrariums promote bacterial infection to boot. Oh, one other point is that carnivorousplants take years to grow to a good size, so is also terrible for those of us with little patience. Some of the seeds might even take 6 months to actually sprout if at all. If you keep the kit, try stratifying them again for 8 weeks as carnivorousplants advised and then when you take it out of the fridge, ditch the terrarium top, drill some holes in the bottom and place it in a tray of 1 inch water under good window or florescent light and hope for the best. You can never tell how long the seeds they sent you in those little gimmick kits have been sitting around in cold strorage. The only stay viable for about a year or two. The Venus Flytrap seeds do not need stratification, but can survive cold overwintering, so it wont hurt anything to keep them cold, but that kit did not even tell you that the Flytrap seeds did not need stratification I bet. The other North Amrican seeds from the pitcher plants and sundews will need stratification for sure. Without cold, damp conditions their seed coats do not break down and allow them to germinate. If you are interested in growing carnivorous plants, get a real bargain by trading or asking for plants from growers here or by buying from a specialist nursery and obtaining adult plants with no nonsense instructions or silly terrariums to start with. Not many carnivorous plants need a terrarium to grow well (only a few of the finicky tropicals) in most environments....See Moremy first venus fly trap
Comments (2)The main reason people usually dont buy vfts from local nurseriesis most places dont know how to take care of them. they order them in bulk, and sell them on the shelf usully with the houseplants which is not the correct place. BASIC CARE SHEET 1. VFTS require a dormancy period 2. they must be watered with distilled, rain, or reverse osmosis water and be kept moist at all times. 3. they thrive best in full sun 4. humidity is'nt that important mine are growing outside and temps are getting in lower 50sF of course mine have been outside all year round. 5. vfts basic soil mix is 50peat:50perlite mix Sorry if you already knew this. since temps are getting low in your area you depending on the health of your plant you should get ready for dormancy. once the first frost hits your plant it should trigger this dormancy period and die back, bulb still intact, only if its healthy enough if you've had it inside you might want to skip dormancy this year just because im not sure if your plant will have enough time to acclimate to outdoor temp and be pushed into dormancy, but dont get the impression the plants will be able to skip dormancy every year the plant will only be healthiest if it experiences its dormancy period. To tell if your plant is healthy if it has witnessed 50F temps it should be slowing down growth and the main way to tell if your plant is healthy is to check its bulb and make sure its cream-white in color. im not exactly sure on how to go with your plant dormancy, hopefully a fellow forum member can help you with this, so to other members who read this. If the plant is healthy, should it be put outside to acclimate? hope this helps, id assume it would be but i dont know the health of the plant....See Morepetiolaris
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