- Sat Apr 15, 2017 1:19 am
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Hello I am brand new to this forum and know nothing about Venus Fly Traps.
I have a venus fly trap that I purchased at Home Depot 10 years ago. It's in an enclosed box and I've left it on a shelf in a cool room for the past 9 years and pretty much forgot about it. It has never been watered in those 9 years and the moss is more than half gone now. The moss started to grow a few years ago and I didn't even think the VFT was alive anymore.
Today I pulled it out and removed all the moss. It is alive, but there are only long arms with no traps.
I don't want to kill it, so please help me in getting it back in shape. I've got some spagnum moss that I was going to soak in distilled water and then lift what is in the container out and place the new stuff underneath.
How do I get it back to health?
Thanks!
I have a venus fly trap that I purchased at Home Depot 10 years ago. It's in an enclosed box and I've left it on a shelf in a cool room for the past 9 years and pretty much forgot about it. It has never been watered in those 9 years and the moss is more than half gone now. The moss started to grow a few years ago and I didn't even think the VFT was alive anymore.
Today I pulled it out and removed all the moss. It is alive, but there are only long arms with no traps.
I don't want to kill it, so please help me in getting it back in shape. I've got some spagnum moss that I was going to soak in distilled water and then lift what is in the container out and place the new stuff underneath.
How do I get it back to health?
Thanks!
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The container it lives in. Moss used to be up to the line where the lid meets container.
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The trap after I removed all the living moss today.
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