- Fri Jun 15, 2018 6:19 pm
#316589
I live in LA county about 45 min away from the beach. Through a series of strange events, I ended up with a Venus Fly Trap back in March, and I sorta just left it alone in its plastic mini greenhouse for the first two months on my north facing window sill. Then it tried to flower one day, and I snipped the flower stem before it opened, realizing it's gotten pretty crowded in there. So I finally decided to take care of this little guy....
I separated five little plants out from the tiny original pot, gave one plant to a friend, and now I'm left with four. I've been growing them in little cups placed inside fishbowls, started feeding them cutworms found on my herbs, and they are doing moderately ok. A few traps turned black, overall the plants are getting by. One even tried flowering again (twice) and I nipped both in the bud.
Now I'm considering moving them outdoors to my south facing balcony. There really is no good indoor window space in my apartment except for the north facing one, and I really don't want to keep the VFT plants there any longer. Although new traps are sprouting, all traps have lost their redness in color.
So question is: what kind of provision should I set up for the plants to grow outside? They're pretty small (4-5 inch tall); currently I'm growing them in a cocktail plastic cup placed inside a red solo cup with rocks on the bottom filling up about half way. The medium is 50% peat moss, 25% sand and 25% perlite. The weather in LA in the summer is generally 60-90 F, humidity level in the 40s, although it feels pretty dry. Should I keep or ditch the fishbowls? Will they survive in the open outdoors if I acclimate them slowly?
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I separated five little plants out from the tiny original pot, gave one plant to a friend, and now I'm left with four. I've been growing them in little cups placed inside fishbowls, started feeding them cutworms found on my herbs, and they are doing moderately ok. A few traps turned black, overall the plants are getting by. One even tried flowering again (twice) and I nipped both in the bud.
Now I'm considering moving them outdoors to my south facing balcony. There really is no good indoor window space in my apartment except for the north facing one, and I really don't want to keep the VFT plants there any longer. Although new traps are sprouting, all traps have lost their redness in color.
So question is: what kind of provision should I set up for the plants to grow outside? They're pretty small (4-5 inch tall); currently I'm growing them in a cocktail plastic cup placed inside a red solo cup with rocks on the bottom filling up about half way. The medium is 50% peat moss, 25% sand and 25% perlite. The weather in LA in the summer is generally 60-90 F, humidity level in the 40s, although it feels pretty dry. Should I keep or ditch the fishbowls? Will they survive in the open outdoors if I acclimate them slowly?
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. Your plants dont need that outside. 
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