I bought one of those in 2014 and it’s still living in that original container. Although the plastic is yellowed and green with algae these days. I just water it with distilled water every few months and ignore it. That seems to keep it happy.
They'll dry up pretty fast outside in our low humidity climate unless you're constantly and I mean constantly watering them. 4 yesrs ago bought those venus fly traps and pircher plants from Lowe's. They did perfectly fine for about a year and a half indoors on our south facing window in the laundry room. The pitcher plant even some good large sized pitchers. When I decided to put them outside it was constant watering and they slowly declined untl I gave up and they died. That's growers on YT who are on the west coast all grow them either in elaborate greenhouses with fans, humidifiers and air conditioners or indoors with grow lights. They"ll do fine indoors bro. I was a black thumb when i started growing plants 4 yrs ago and managed to keep these alive for over a year and a hakf and get 5-6 fly traps per plant with food sized pitchers on my pticher plant.
They are perennials. They are native to Eastern NC and SC. They need to go through the winter and die off, but they will come back in spring. They aren’t as healthy if you don’t let them die off in winter for 3 months and then revive in Spring. Even if you keep them indoors. You can put them in your fridge in December and bring them out in March. 😊
@@melissaupton9104 I just put mine outside in the winter on my fence. But they still will roast in our dry climate in the summer and dry out fast on windy days like we had this week.
My dad bought one of those EXACT venus fly traps for my older brother on his birthday. He didn’t ask if he even wanted that responsibility or not. We named her Ruby and she sits on the windowsill where she gets a bunch of sun, but has been dying ever since we got her. It’s been nearly a year and she only has one living mouth left. Thank you for the video, I’ll see if we can save her and get her outside.
Not only that but Venus flytraps need to be repotted mine was also dying and I changed its pot and it grew more heads make sure to use pea moss since the plant gets its nutrients from the sun and bugs it doesn’t need fertilizer or soil it does tend to live in a more humid climate I don’t feed mine bugs and I keep it inside and just with repotting and lots of sun it thrives
i keep mine inside. hanging in the window.I got him to rid my place of all the annoying ass flys that plague my flat. named him sneaks's cuz they are many.. have a friend that thought it was pretty cool.. left his outside for 1 night and they died.
Found this video trying to find a video on someone repotting a Venus Fly Trap. I've read care guides, I know "how" supposedly lol to do it, but I wanted to see someone actually do it. I agree indoors ins't a very good place, but I do want to keep my indoors, and in fact I have a really nice grow light meant for aquariums. I had the fish tank for about 7 years and when all my pets went to be with their maker I rehomed the plants in the tank and it sat for a year... I've decided the light would be perfect to keep a VFT inside. I really do think it'll be adequate, I actually have another one and I've been keeping a few small cactuses happy and healthy for about 8 months and it's given me the courage to use this spare light. I'm sure many would say that's bad and it won't work, but considering I picked up my VFT from a big box store it's like you said, if I didn't take it in somebody else would have and I don't know that it would've ended better for the little fella. Also if I notice it's not happy inside I do live in Florida and I can provide it with soul crushing amounts of intense light if needed lol.
Honestly they aren’t to hard to take care of but they require lots of sun destilled water and bugs occasionally all of the needs can be provided by a solar light and a homemade destillation process
Ive had mine just like that in that container for 3 years and its thriving! I clean it up all the time. I pull the dead pods and stems and water it like once a week.
@@renegadedisciple187 It would make your plant bigger and better and healthier it probably dies off a lot because of being in such a small area you should consider replanting it it doesn’t take long to do
Cold hardy to zone 7, it’s a plant that should be outside for all of America and only brought inside somewhere like a garage or basement in colder areas in winter. In fact, those in hotter climates should try to replicate a “winter” period of about 3 months in order to fulfill the plants natural needs. Being native to the coastal plains of the Carolina’s it naturally experiences a winter every year and has grown quite accustomed to it.
If I had the means to buy all those plants I would but I don't know how to take care of them. I could always learn how to take care of carnivores plants.
I bought a little pot worth of them today, they don’t look so good, I’ve given them 2 queen ants today and plan to drastically increase that number. My room is a perfect warm climate for these guys.
I have one now I got almost dead in one of these and I can't save it 😢I put it in petemoss and Pearlite, only give distilled water, even got it outside but it's been cloudy and idk how to save it
This looks like Sprouts where I bought the exact same one. 🥺 I'm scared to re-pot it and I live in the desert. I don't think it would survive the dry climate. I named him Vinny. He seems pretty happy.
I just bought one, I live in Michigan and have a few house plants and on my back steps I have chives, tomato plants that are about 6 ft tall, sage, and now a single fly trap, my tomatoes get picked at by the blue Jay's that come in the morning while that grass is wet but u have my fly trap in front of my slider door, I feel like it might be doomed if I just leave it outside, mine looks alot less healthy than these coming from the store, crazy they have so many where your at, I had like 6 to pick from
i just got one and it's looking a bit less healthy. i water it with water from my electric tea kettle once it has cooled for a few hours. i am tryna find info on substrate to repot. and i know it wants a decent bit of light throughout the day... and a generally lively ecology around it to provide bugs.
@@natesofaThe substrate to repot is called “peat moss”. Home depot sells small bag of it. Needs to be just very slightly damp. Don’t overwater or the roots will rot.
Believe it or not, they are supposed to go dormant in cold weather months. They grow back in spring. Mine has been in the snow last winter and it grew back. Its dying again, but will grow back.
i found two on the mark down in Michigan for 2.50 and bought one because the other looked so bad. The one I bought came with a bonus baby plant. Iv been learning about them and nursing them back to health but still I wish I would have got both of them. I really feel like they’re being tortured in these lil plastic boxes.
Considering that they're an endangered species: producing them for selling helps conservation by creating a financial incentive for lots of people to learn how to grow them and for there to always be a reserve available for planting if some wetland in their native area were to get rehabilitated. So I respectfully disagree with your otherwise reasonable frustration
@@joewymn1232yea I think we got that. I think they’re like me, living in a dry area like Nevada with no humidity whatsoever. so what would be recommend then?? You’re answer was no help at all.
@@joewymn1232 upon further research I’ve learned that’s it’s actually a common misconception that need humidity. And I can leave mine outside as long as it’s moist and in the shade if it’s above 100. So not only was YOUR input useless it was also incorrect.
@@parzival1225 your research is wrong and like all newbie plant growers your amount of sunlight is way to low next time try to give actual input you look foolish ive also have grown traps 30 years professionally so next time ask a pro not google😂
Dude I would be pretty annoyed seeing that and I’ve seen people negotiate with the managers to buy them all or the majority of them for a reasonable price to save the plants and they add them to bog gardens and see how they grow
Which in many climates they would for at least half of the year. In Canada we can get bone dry air during the winter, it would give me nose bleeds. Once I installed aquariums around the place I stopped having the nosebleeds because they're a source of humidity for our indoor air and that's helped our plants too
Spread the awareness! I've never liked this form of selling them, its not right. And they're supposed to be on the endangered species list. This definitely isn't helping with that.
Dang chill out! Why be so angry and unhappy? If you care so much then make videos on how to properly care for them and maybe encourage people to buy them and take good care of them! Sheesh! Life’s too short to be so angry.
Taking care of them is time-consuming, complicated, and expensive. I'm surprised that they sell them in Canadian Walmarts without any proper educative support (responsibilites, special type of irrigation, elongated pots for the roots, full indirect sun, the chomperz is where it gets its fertilizer vs the roots is were it consumes water, nutritious soil will fry the roots leading to early death, etc.) for beginners and proper packaging (such larger sizing, a mini kit that can be used for the venus trap, ...), etc.
These are all clones... so who really cares. If I propogate my magic 4 leaf clover plant to sell and you let it die... who gives a F. I still got mine.
