- Mon Oct 14, 2024 5:37 pm
#456852
Hi,
I am happy to find this forum, and already found a bit of useful advice for my planties.
I am in Wisconsin, USA. I started around Christmas last year with one fly trap, thinking it could catch fruit flies ( I had pet spiders at the time and was raising fruities for them, and there are always strays). I soon found out they won't catch fruities, but also learned to avoid tap water, and provide lots of light. The plant started to thrive, and bloomed within a month. A friend told me that would kill it, but by then the flowers were opened already. Learned more online, and saw that it wasn't necessarily doomed. That plant is "Thing 1" because I also have a "Thing 2" that looked like it needed help, so I bought it. Both got to play outside over the summer, caught their own food, and both are doing great.
Then, I got some new ones online, because I really wanted a sundew to help with the gnats and fruit flies. I ordered one sundew, but got two different sundews due to the wrong type shipped initially, plus got a different type of fly trap which I guess is a hybrid type. Also picked up "Steve", a rescue fly trap (who was recently starting to bloom but we are about to hibernate, so, no to that), and now added another rescue two days ago that was bone dry and floppy wilted which they sold to me for 53 cents. It's got 3 leaves/traps that are probably okay (they perked up after watering), plus a baby leaf coming in. It just might make it, and I'm going to try. If that works it'll be the best 53 cents I ever spent! I also have one Sarracenia that I got recently.
So in less than a year I have 8 CPs. Yikes! But I love them, and they are quite cool additions to my regular plants family. I'd like to try to grow the seeds from Thing 1, but my big project now is to get all these fly traps and the Sarracenia ready for fridge dormancy. The sundews, I'm told, can stay out all year. Also one of those is blooming, and though I only got it a little over a month ago, it gorged itself on those gnats and is growing like crazy and very dewy, so we'll let that one go ahead with it.
So I went from zero to eight in less than a year, but I am very much enjoying them. I love to see what they caught once the traps re-open. It's been a hard time for me with my Mom's health being bad, so I think I needed something to bring me some joy and see life and growth and all that, especially with the rescues that looked like they were dead or dying, and watching them get healthy.
Anyway, I seem to be doing pretty well with these guys, and am glad to find this forum so I can learn more and do the best for them.
I am happy to find this forum, and already found a bit of useful advice for my planties.
I am in Wisconsin, USA. I started around Christmas last year with one fly trap, thinking it could catch fruit flies ( I had pet spiders at the time and was raising fruities for them, and there are always strays). I soon found out they won't catch fruities, but also learned to avoid tap water, and provide lots of light. The plant started to thrive, and bloomed within a month. A friend told me that would kill it, but by then the flowers were opened already. Learned more online, and saw that it wasn't necessarily doomed. That plant is "Thing 1" because I also have a "Thing 2" that looked like it needed help, so I bought it. Both got to play outside over the summer, caught their own food, and both are doing great.
Then, I got some new ones online, because I really wanted a sundew to help with the gnats and fruit flies. I ordered one sundew, but got two different sundews due to the wrong type shipped initially, plus got a different type of fly trap which I guess is a hybrid type. Also picked up "Steve", a rescue fly trap (who was recently starting to bloom but we are about to hibernate, so, no to that), and now added another rescue two days ago that was bone dry and floppy wilted which they sold to me for 53 cents. It's got 3 leaves/traps that are probably okay (they perked up after watering), plus a baby leaf coming in. It just might make it, and I'm going to try. If that works it'll be the best 53 cents I ever spent! I also have one Sarracenia that I got recently.
So in less than a year I have 8 CPs. Yikes! But I love them, and they are quite cool additions to my regular plants family. I'd like to try to grow the seeds from Thing 1, but my big project now is to get all these fly traps and the Sarracenia ready for fridge dormancy. The sundews, I'm told, can stay out all year. Also one of those is blooming, and though I only got it a little over a month ago, it gorged itself on those gnats and is growing like crazy and very dewy, so we'll let that one go ahead with it.
So I went from zero to eight in less than a year, but I am very much enjoying them. I love to see what they caught once the traps re-open. It's been a hard time for me with my Mom's health being bad, so I think I needed something to bring me some joy and see life and growth and all that, especially with the rescues that looked like they were dead or dying, and watching them get healthy.
Anyway, I seem to be doing pretty well with these guys, and am glad to find this forum so I can learn more and do the best for them.
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