FlytrapCare Carnivorous Plant Forums

Hi all!

I bought my 1st VFT last Saturday. I'm located in CR and VFT are very rare plants here. I have read a lot of the care articles on the page and the forum and placed my VFT on a windowsill, where it gets a lot of sun and air. I'm not new to plants in general, but is safe to say I'm such noob for carnivorous plants.

The thing is, looking at my plant... it doesn't look healthy. The leaves are droopy, the plant doesn't have any red on it and today I noticed a leaf browning already. I think is been sitting on water, or not enough light. My regular plant nursery got the VFT until last week, so I think is an issue going on from the grower.
I added some pics, could you help me troubleshoot it?

It definitely looks like it needs more light. It wants strong sunlight for at least 6 hours a day. The medium should be constantly moist, but not soggy. Use only water with minimal dissolved solids, distilled, reverse osmosis, rainwater. Keep it in a shallow saucer of water. The depth of your saucer should be good.

Thanks! Currently the soil feels soggy, and I bet it was watered with regular tap water.

I'm searching for sphagnum moss here so I can repot it soon!

A few leaves browning is normal, especially when the plant is getting used to it's new environment.

Thanks for all the great advise!

Holy moly! You just chopped it!?!? Just like that?!?! Man I hope it grows as fast as you say...i would have waited it out under better conditions before resorting to something that drastic. I'm excited to see the journey of this plants life, hope it works out

Magic Mutt wrote: ↑Wed Jun 03, 2020 4:53 pm Holy moly! You just chopped it!?!? Just like that?!?! Man I hope it grows as fast as you say...i would have waited it out under better conditions before resorting to something that drastic. I'm excited to see the journey of this plants life, hope it works out

Definitely not a recommended way of doing things. By removing all of the leaves it requires the plant to draw all of its nutrition from the rhizome while it tries to grow more leaves for photosynthesis. If the rhizome is good, it will survive. If it is not, the plant would die.