- Sat Mar 23, 2024 7:49 pm
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Good afternoon all,
I’m brand new to the forum. First, thanks to everyone for the wonderful information on this board! There is a huge wealth of knowledge here.
I’ve tried growing Venus flytraps a few times many years ago and ended up murdering them. I had no idea the instructions on the boxes were bunk. Terrariums, no direct sunlight, no room for roots to go down, well water…
I was at a local department store called Meijer and saw some big, but sad looking flytraps from Rocket Farms. The traps were ~1.5” and way larger than I’m used to seeing, so I grabbed a couple. I couldn’t resist considering 1” traps were huge back when I tried growing them last. Turns out that was a gateway drug. This time, with the benefit of forums like this, I found out how to really grow them vice killing them. It is still cold here in Michigan (North of Detroit), so I bought a grow light, nice tall pots, and planted them in LFSM.
Back to the gateway drug part…. I’m good at growing flowers, vegetables, and herbs, so I figured that being armed with the correct way to grow carnivorous plants, I should buy a few more and have a ball. Another benefit is that I just installed a reverse osmosis system, so I have good water for them. I have a few on order and will post pictures once I have everything in hand but I ordered a DCXL, Low Giant, and a Megatraps. Probably going to have to get a sundew or 2 as well. All of these wonderful new cultivars knocked my socks off! There wasn’t anything like that when I was trying to grow some.
So the 2 sad looking Rocket Farms flytraps are doing well. They had a touch of repotting shock and were pretty sad to begin with. One was all contorted in the container. They got a touch of sunburn from the grow light, but have considerable new growth coming up. I cut the flower stalks to focus the plants on recovering. One has 3 new traps coming up and the other has four.
Once the nice weather arrives, I plan to move them out to the front garden which gets full sun. We have a horrible deer infestation around here. They’re as thick as cockroaches, and I’ve learned to like them about as much as roaches. I run an electric fence around the front gardens. I plan to build a chicken wire pen supported by fiberglass rods for the carnivorous plant collection then use a jumper wire to the hot fence. Basically they’ll be in an electrified cage, so hopefully they won’t get attacked by deer, rabbits, squirrels or other critters. Yeah, I’m probably going to be frying myself all the time watering them.
Thanks again,
Dan
I’m brand new to the forum. First, thanks to everyone for the wonderful information on this board! There is a huge wealth of knowledge here.
I’ve tried growing Venus flytraps a few times many years ago and ended up murdering them. I had no idea the instructions on the boxes were bunk. Terrariums, no direct sunlight, no room for roots to go down, well water…
I was at a local department store called Meijer and saw some big, but sad looking flytraps from Rocket Farms. The traps were ~1.5” and way larger than I’m used to seeing, so I grabbed a couple. I couldn’t resist considering 1” traps were huge back when I tried growing them last. Turns out that was a gateway drug. This time, with the benefit of forums like this, I found out how to really grow them vice killing them. It is still cold here in Michigan (North of Detroit), so I bought a grow light, nice tall pots, and planted them in LFSM.
Back to the gateway drug part…. I’m good at growing flowers, vegetables, and herbs, so I figured that being armed with the correct way to grow carnivorous plants, I should buy a few more and have a ball. Another benefit is that I just installed a reverse osmosis system, so I have good water for them. I have a few on order and will post pictures once I have everything in hand but I ordered a DCXL, Low Giant, and a Megatraps. Probably going to have to get a sundew or 2 as well. All of these wonderful new cultivars knocked my socks off! There wasn’t anything like that when I was trying to grow some.
So the 2 sad looking Rocket Farms flytraps are doing well. They had a touch of repotting shock and were pretty sad to begin with. One was all contorted in the container. They got a touch of sunburn from the grow light, but have considerable new growth coming up. I cut the flower stalks to focus the plants on recovering. One has 3 new traps coming up and the other has four.
Once the nice weather arrives, I plan to move them out to the front garden which gets full sun. We have a horrible deer infestation around here. They’re as thick as cockroaches, and I’ve learned to like them about as much as roaches. I run an electric fence around the front gardens. I plan to build a chicken wire pen supported by fiberglass rods for the carnivorous plant collection then use a jumper wire to the hot fence. Basically they’ll be in an electrified cage, so hopefully they won’t get attacked by deer, rabbits, squirrels or other critters. Yeah, I’m probably going to be frying myself all the time watering them.
Thanks again,
Dan
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