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Venus Fly Traps need three basic things to flourish:
If you provide each of these three things in the proper way, you will have a healthy, happy little Venus Fly Trap as you see below in the photo. Please read the above articles in detail, but I will give a brief summary here of what a Venus Fly Trap needs.
Give them as much light as you can. Direct bright sunlight at least four hours a day is best. Water them with pure water, either distilled, rain water, or other water that has a low concentration of dissolved solids. Plant them in a proper mix of nutrient poor medium. Most people use peat, sphagnum moss, sand and perlite in some combination.
If possible, keep the ambient humidity high, though this is not critical. Venus Fly Traps can thrive in low humidity. Just be sure to keep their soil damp at all times when the humidity is low.
If you are growing your plant in less than ideal conditions, or you just want the biggest traps possible, it's best to not let them flower. Try to cut the flower stalk off as soon as you notice it. Flowering robs the plant of precious energy that it could otherwise use to make itself larger or produce better leafs and traps. Also, as a flytrap grows, it will form little offshoots with a second rosette of leaves. This offshoot will eventually form its own root system. Then, when you go to repot your venus fly trap you can gently pry the two rosettes apart and have 2 separate plants. If you cut the flower off, the plant will be more likely to form separate rosettes.
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