Interested in Venus Flytrap or tempt me with any other carnivorous plant. I remember in grade school we also learned about a pitcher plant that would lure & eat insects. Pls look at my trade list or can also offer postage, random office supplies, possibly yarn, or lots of seeds. Thanks

It is best to buy peat moss and perlite separately because most of soil mix do have fertilizer in them. Sail + VF= death plant I am assume you get your snow from the street where they spray down with salt to melt the snow? What you can do is wash the root with distilled water, get new media, keep it in low light and wait

Byron, This is rondon. I have just begun my first encounter with VFT tissue culturing this week. See my notes "VFT seedlings/backyard gardening" on this Forum. I can't give much advice yet, I planted my first batch (100) VFT plantlets last night. Placed all the cultures in a bowl of water to rinse off the agar jel, then planted them with 1 part milled sphagnum peat moss to 1 part perlite in peat pots. Using reverse-osmosis and/or distilled water (available in bottles anywhere). I am acquiring some NEEM OIL to prevent mold, mildew, rot. Using 4-ft shop lights for "hardening" the plantlets. Jacob from Sarracenia Northwest recommends this setup and over the course of the next 4 to 6 weeks gradually make more and more holes for aeration in the plastic cover to acclimate the plants while gradually going from lights to indirect to dim direct sunlight. In about 2 months the plants can be carefully taken outdoors. I plan to make a large natural stand of VFTs in my backyard, a dream from a long time ago. I have been to the natural area on the Carolina coast and am trying to duplicate it as much as possible. Alabama is quite humid. I just need to watch my soil and water. GOOD LUCK to BOTH OF US! rondon

Yes I am from Southern California...I'm lucky if it rains sometime in the next 6 months, which it wont. So I bought distilled water today, cheaper than I thought it would be. On my brown one, everything is brown, the leaf the trap and all. the other one just the little hairs on the trap mouth are black, but I've been hardening them off and it's kinda starting to open up...does that mean i can salvage this one? And i should take it out and wash it off with distilled and put it back in it's pots? And it's okay I took them out of the terrariums, right? cos they have been for a few days now. I thought you couldnt use bottled water because it has sodium in it, good to know. So if I change my watering process i should be okay? Thanks so much for the answers