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The hardiness chart wasn't too clear for me.

I live in houston, tx.

Yes, you can. If it get's too cold for a long period (from 32 and blow) you could cover them with some black trap or plastic, than when temps go back up than you can uncover them.

allenc666 wrote:Yes, you can. If it get's too cold for a long period (from 32 and blow) you could cover them with some black trap or plastic, than when temps go back up than you can uncover them.

Okay, thanks

The temperature here in Houston hardly gets under 60, and rarely under 50 (The coldest months just passed/ are passing by).

whoa the Venus Flytraps need Temps below 50F to be dormant

allenc666 wrote:whoa the Venus Flytraps need Temps below 50F to be dormant

I think i over Egsaturated

Let me take a quick temperature check

Double toast

Tempetures high today is 57 and the low is 32 but the rest of the days the high is 50 or lower.

What if they're covered? How would they know anything?

From what I've read most plants go dormant based on the amount of light they get. Same thing goes for basic sod (like blue-grass). Thus the reason here in CO we can have a perfectly green lawn with a foot of snow on top in April.
Lily: if you have them covered for extended periods of time it would affect the plants (duh, no light right?), but covering them for short amounts of time when the temperature is too low is not going to confuse it.

Oh, okay. I was just worried about the plants that are out in the snow. (Not mine.) How about the ones that are covered in snow? They won't "see" anything!