I've had this for for close to 10 years. It's surviving but not thriving. I'm in Toronto Canada so it spends winters indoors under quality LED growlights and summers outdoors in the shade. It's growing in a mix of sphagnum moss and perlite. Always watered with rain water. Is there anything I could do to help?
Am wondering if anyone would know what it means when just the petals of the flower fall off a Ping? At first I thought it could have been due to a heatwave we just had but now it’s happened again, do I need to be worried? I had been told u want to make sure the tray always has water in it, is that wrong?
For context it’s been doing just fine on my window sill until now which is why I’m wondering if it could be overwatering somehow or something else
Repotting Help
Just repotted my first two venus fly traps that I’ve had for about a year along with a bunch of other new carnivorous plants. I put them all in a mix of peat moss and perlite. I also got these nice pots to put them in (plastic don’t worry) but now I’m second guessing myself, are they too wide and deep for the size of the plants? Dimensions: Large pot - 20x20 cm length and width, and 8cm in height. Small pot - 5x5 cm length and width, and 5cm in height. All of them have one drainage hole in the bottom. Any help would be much appreciated, especially for the non venus fly traps. Please be nice this is my first post ever :) thank you!
(3 venus fly traps, 1 cape sundew, 1 spoon leaved sundew, 2 butterworts)
I have two Venus fly traps that I rescued from Sprouts a few years ago. They were pretty healthy for a year+ and then we moved. I repotted the larger one a week ago because it was in the tiniest pot. The plant is covered with tiny white bugs, even inside the traps. These are likely spider mites. My alocasia plant was infested and these were close by. I gently brushed off the white bugs with a paint brush and watered it well. It's become yellower and the traps look lackluster. The trap that looks black (on the left side) caught a large fly and has been dying off. I pulled off any dead leaves and really infested parts. What is happening here? I've been caring for these for a while but I'm not an expert.
update: planted in carnivorous plant mix and crushed peat, it is under my lanai in bright light. It's Florida so it's pretty hot even in the shade, humidity varies but right now it's pretty humid. I water with distilled water every day. Keep it sitting in a saucer of water. The pot is clear plastic so I can see how the soil is drying out. The traps were red when I bought it but have never been red since I took it home.
It looks like all of the soil was pulled out and the flytrap was on the ground a few inches away and looks stepped on. If it is a bird how do I stop them from doing this? I’ve lost 2 flytraps this way now I only have an indoor one and the bigger one that is way more established.
Hey people!
About a month ago, i bought this set of plants. Since then, i’ve noticed a slowdown in their growth, particularly the Dionaea muscipula (see the small leaves in the attached photos).
What could be the reason of this less vigorous growth in the Dionaea?
The plants get direct sunlight for only a couple of hours a day, followed by bright indirect light for the rest of the day. They are watered with distilled water.
From the photos, it might look like the dionaea isn't eating at all. However, just a few days ago, the traps were full of insects that came out right after it rained.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated! :)
Species are Drosera capensis all red, Drosera binata, Drosera spatulata, Dionaea muscipola.
Also sprayed some insecticide outside the unit on their trail in so they can now be eaten or poisoned... Wrong house guys 😂
I noticed a couple days ago my plant was looking a lot less healthy i guess :( the leaves are kinda wrinkly, half the traps are shut..
Today is like 10x worse than a few days ago. all the traps are shut, the leaves are quite yellow, some are turning black, they’re all very droopy. The second picture is what he looked like about 2 weeks ago
Idk what i’ve done wrong! I’ve got it indoors yes but i have a grow light on it for minimum 12 hours, like 15cm above the plant. I give it distilled water, and have been pretty good keeping it hydrated, although i think i did go a week between filling the water tray last ugh, so maybe that’s why?
My rooms not cold either, idk if its dormant or something but i wanted to skip dormancy this year because i just bought it (some guy with some article said it was fine to skip) (but ill still probs do it next year).
Hes still in the original pot too, so i don’t think it could be the potting mix that’s bad?
I heard these like little flying insects can be bad for your plant too? There’s a few really tiny nearly microscopic flies that are attracted to my light that have kinda fallen onto my plant, so could that be why? I’m not sure what they are tho.
Any help on what’s gone wrong would be appreciateddd i was really hoping i could keep this guy healthy :(( or is this normal and a temporary thing? Like could the old leaves die and new ones grow if i keep going with what im doing? pls dont be mean i am very new to this lols…
I got these in the mail a week and a half ago. I followed the directions for unpacking and acclimating to the humidity. I've also been adding distilled water to the plate, the soil has been moist the whole time. I usually keep them in a window that gets direct sunlight in the morning and I put them in the back yard yesterday to get as much sun as possible. So how are they looking? What can I do to make them thrive?
Edit, this is a Venus Flytrap, a Drosa capensis and a Sarracenia pitcher plant.
Hello. A while ago I got 3 droseras capensis red and when I got them they were all fully red but since then the new leaves are not turning red and I cut of the dying red leaves. On the other pictures are readings from ppfd app for my grow lights. Is there something that I can do for them to turn red except put them in real sun?
Edit: Sorry the ppfd measurements are wrong after hopefully calibrating it right it is around 800 - 950 ppfd.
Do any of these pings look like they need repotting? I'm new to these, as they are my first. When they arrived, it did not look like they have much of a root structure. They all have doubled in size since I got them.
Help! My sundew has no sticky dew, though some leaves have tiny, barely visible droplets. I just bought this sundew yesterday. I am giving it direct sunlight and distilled water but i am scared that it wont help. What do I do?
My ventricosa posing with its food. The nepenthes equivalent of men holding fish photos.
This was about a month ago, and the ventricosa has enjoyed its meal. The cockroach is now but a mere husk inside the pitcher, and the ventricosa is shooting out its biggest pitcher yet.
MY VERY FIRST EVER VENUS FLYTRAP FLOWERS!?!?
It is labeled as Albomarginata, but I doubt that. Any ideas?
I'd also love to know if it is a lowland or highland species.
Thanks in advance!
I noticed the pot I have my original pitcher plants in has cracked. Should I report now or wait until winter.
I’ve bought several pings and have propagated all of them so the bulk of my pings come from leaf props. I’ve ordered from 2 (maybe 3 sellers, I can’t recall) sellers and one of the sellers I was most impressed with. The other seller in the past Ive thought the pings were small and/or not in the best shape. Being somewhat new to pings at the time, I didn’t know if the condition I received them in was standard so I never questioned it. I would pot them up and wait for them to stabilize and perk up. However after propagating my own pings and shipping some to friends, it’s made me wonder if I should question the quality of the pings I’ve received. So I just received my Pinguicula Moranensis Var. x Cycloseta yesterday, I paid for 2 day express shipping so it wasn’t boxed up and in transit for long. I bought one and I’m going to assume that a second smaller one was included maybe bc I received the larger one which is on the smaller side. I’m curious if anyone thinks this is normal or if maybe I should go with another seller in the future. You can see in the first 2-3 pics the melted leaves (which I know is probably typical with shipping pings) and I placed a dime next to them for scale. They arrived with dried up/no roots.
Pic 3 - After potting them up
Pic 4 - dried up/dead roots?
Pic 5 - immediately after removing pings from container and opening up paper towel
I recently found this sundew on Maryland Eastern Shore in Worcester Co. I don't think this is D. Intermedia. Maybe D. Capillaris? There is a known population in this County.