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i got a venus flytrap a sundew a pituer pland and the venus flytrap is not closing and eating the sundew is not makiing dew or moving and the piture plant is not making the acids what do i do or what is wrong

Hello Lark and welcome to the forum!

It's possible that nothing is wrong with your plants. They could just be in shock from the recent moving around (assuming you got them less than 2 weeks ago). How long ago did you get them?

For basic care tips, you should read here:
http://www.flytrapcare.com/venus-fly-tr ... alive.html

Basically the most important things are:
1) Lots of sun
2) Clean water (rain, distilled or reverse osmosis water only)
3) Nutrient poor soil (peat moss works well)
4) Dormancy

With regards to 4), where do you live? If you live in the northern hemisphere, it's likely that your plants are going dormant and that's why you aren't seeing the growth that you'd expect.

i got destilled water lots of light more then 5 hours and the venus ilearend is in dormency but the sundew dose not have dormency right?

The sundew might require dormancy. It depends on what species it is. Do you know what species it is?

let me show u a pic of all of them

Nice plants! Thanks for sharing the photos. I'm not entirely certain what type of Drosera that is. It looks like a capensis, but I'm not 100% sure about that. If it is a capensis, you don't have to give it dormancy. I keep my capensis with my dormant VFTs, but it doesn't really go dormant. Your VFT and Sarracenia purpea look very healthy.

venus flytrap is dionaea mscipula pitcher plant is sarracenia species and octopus it just says it is dorsera and says grow in bright light to partial shade no dormancy keep 70 to -90

Yep, octopus plant is another name for Drosera capensis. You are correct that it doesn't require a dormancy. Sarracenia is a family, the species of your Sarracenia (pitcher plant) is purpea.

k so it is just in shock how long dose it take i got it 3 days ago

because if u look on the sundew plant on the left leaf there is a ladybug

Mine goes through periods where it doesn't produce sticky stuff. I think it took a few weeks (2 to 3) before it started producing new sticky stuff after I got my capensis.

i live in wisconsin

i have devorced parents and i have a question can i bring the plant to my dads and back to my moms or wat i switch every weekend

In general it's best to leave a plant in one place, but if you give it similar growing conditions, you can move it between two places. The easiest way to give it similar growing conditions is to put it outside both places. Obviously, you can't do that in the winter there, but in the summer time it would be fine outside.

umm ok u said theat it started to get the ooze so doe it start to move when it makes the ooze