What am I doing wrong? So confused.
Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2017 6:13 am
First off, hello to everyone who helps make this forum awesome!
Second off, my poor, pitiful looking venus flytrap! I have had it since August, and the poor guy just can't seem to grow traps! I have done quite a bit of extensive research by the time I got it, and have done the following things:
- Placed in it a bowl to let it absorbed water from below.
- I have it in a South-east facing windowsill, it seems to get a lot of sun, best I can do besides putting it outside (I would rather not, for various reasons, I understand that is a last resort if I can't grow it indoors)
- Only used distilled water
- It should be coming out of it's dormancy period by now, and even then, it hasn't had a single trap since October/November
- Gave it a 6500k, cool white fluorescent light to try and compensate for light issues should there be any.
During the past few months, it has tried to flower 3 times. I cut all three as soon as I noticed, hoping it would help.
Thank you all so much for advice and for reading this, I am very new to this and I don't want it to die!
Here are some pictures with notes:
Second off, my poor, pitiful looking venus flytrap! I have had it since August, and the poor guy just can't seem to grow traps! I have done quite a bit of extensive research by the time I got it, and have done the following things:
- Placed in it a bowl to let it absorbed water from below.
- I have it in a South-east facing windowsill, it seems to get a lot of sun, best I can do besides putting it outside (I would rather not, for various reasons, I understand that is a last resort if I can't grow it indoors)
- Only used distilled water
- It should be coming out of it's dormancy period by now, and even then, it hasn't had a single trap since October/November
- Gave it a 6500k, cool white fluorescent light to try and compensate for light issues should there be any.
During the past few months, it has tried to flower 3 times. I cut all three as soon as I noticed, hoping it would help.
Thank you all so much for advice and for reading this, I am very new to this and I don't want it to die!
Here are some pictures with notes: