r/carnivorousplants

The white thing is the seed

They were mostly black, almost dead. Had to trim the bulb because it was rotten, saved 4 of them. I’m also trying to grow them inside, under a light. Is it possible to safe them?

So we have done amazing since my last post. Upped the grow light to 17 hour duration and imo they are doing amazing. Still haven’t moved to peat moss yet (in the works) but they seem to be doing great and the VFT are benefiting as well. One drosera has even flowered so I’ll be collecting those seeds soon.

Plan is to purchase an actual grow light I can put over a big planter which these will be moved into if anyone has any recommendations i would love to hear them.

My first ever carnivorous plant! I have had it for a bit over a month! Is it doing well! I believe this is a cape sundew.

Just got back into carnivorous plants and needed some advice. I started out with this cobra nest, used one of those ring plant lights at first thinking it would be enough but switched to the sensi clip on double light, the images are from this past Saturday to today (a little over 3 days of growth). I think it’s enough, I used to kill these plants pretty quick but now it seems like I’m doing pretty good with them. I’d like to have a rainbow of colors and I’m looking for recommendations, the area where I have the light clipped on has room for 2 additional lights that would be 10in apart covering a total of 32in so getting these plants blasted with light won’t be an issue even for the larger cultivars. The pot will be 12in long, 8in wide and 8in deep. I will split plants as needed and the pot is good to be put in the garage for winter dormancy. Any recommendations? I’d also like recommendations on any other plants I should add, I’m heavily debating UG cuz I love the flowers on the plants in my aquariums.

As the title says, my cape sundew has exploded in growth since getting her at the end of April.

Originally had her under a pretty weak LED light in a west window, but I eventually moved on to a Miracle-Gro A19 grow light.

I just got back from vacation and during my 3 week absence it has:

- First and second flower stalks have started to bloom

- Pushed out a third flower stalk

- partial fasciation (or bifurcation?) on one leaf

- its seven earlier babies are all getting to be a decent size

I'm eventually going to take my pings out of this bog so it's just sundews. Recently bought a drosera gigante a I might add in to add some more high and different colours.

I got it from Joel’s Venus Flytraps on Etsy. It arrived looking sad which was expected but it’s not bouncing back at all, it even may look worse than when it arrived in this photo.

I’ve given it normal light, acclimated it for a couple days since it was in darkness during shipping, have given it only a constant supply of distilled water to sit in and it’s never dried out.

The seller tried to act like I did something wrong when I followed their care sheet. What gives?

It has never not looked like a sad clump of shit.

Edit: specifics…

Watered with distilled water, has never dried out, light amounts come out to around 900-1000+ FC in the spot it’s at under full spectrum lights since that was recommended after shipping for a few days instead of full strength immediately.

I’m new to carnivorous plants so maybe this is a dumb question.

I was at my local plant shop and fell in love with a nepenthes Miranda. I was too scared to commit $50 for it so I ended up getting a tiny little Asian pitcher for $10 instead.

Ever since I’ve been thinking about that Miranda! They sold out instantly and I’ve been on the hunt since.

There’s a town just about 30min outside of my city that has ONE nepenthes Miranda. Unfortunately, someone moved it and it went unnoticed by the staff for some time, so it got stressed and lost all its pitchers.

Considering I’m unlikely to see another until next spring/summer… would you get it or would you wait?

What risk am I running getting one without any pitchers?

It does appear to have some new growth, so that’s promising?

I have been selling rocks on Etsy for about 6 months and it seems like most of them are going to people who are building terrariums and aquariums. (I am not trying to advertise here, I am hoping to learn more in the hopes of getting better at something that I am enjoying).

I recently had someone buy one and they said it was for a pinguicula -- I had not heard of this before, although I am aware of carnivorous plants in general.

Should I be cleaning the moss and lichen off so that there is a "clean slate"? Or is that just removing good material that might be useful for the pings to grow on?

TIA

These are a Sarracenia and Venus flytrap. I've soaked and rinsed this coconut shell about 10 times with pure rain water (I tied it to a table during two tornadoes as well) and tested it to see if it leeches minerals, and it didn't. Since I planted the little guys, I've been watering them with collected rain water (I test the TDS beforehand, it's always 0) and coming back to a TDS of 54-57! They're burning :( I'm starting to think it's either the moss I planted them in or the ceramic dish, which is oozing some kind of brown goop from the unglazed bottom. Please help!

EDIT: Guys, the pot is glazed. The unglazed part of the pot is the bottom, the side touching the table.

Still get a buzz seeing it over the years.

Pun absolutely intended!

I hope it isint bad for my garden if mantises ocasioaly fall prey to him

Be still my heart, it'll be her first flower if so. What do I do besides panic? 🤣 Also, is this drosera capensis? Thanks guys.

So how long does the Venus fly trap flower and bloom? And do I need to cut it off when it’s a stalk to propagate it or let it grow into a flower and harvest the seeds? I mean I’m still trying to navigate taking care of a Venus fly trap. But it’s pretty cool.

I feed it a fly since I saw an open mouth.

Can I separate these basal shoots? Didn't even think about doing it til I unpotted it, thought there was one but turns out there are two