Venus Fly Trap Growing
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Mini Terrarium
Many Venus flytraps are sold in mini terraria. These are usually small plastic domes which ensure a high humidity around your plant.
Advantages
Ideal for situations in which your flytrap will be growing in a low humidity environment. Low humidity environments are harmful to Venus flytraps.
Your flytrap will not need watered as often due to less loss […]
Removing flower stalks
When Venus flytraps flower, they are often left in a poor state for a considerable time afterwards (often up to a year). They usually do not grow as quickly during this time and are likely to look sickly, limp and are more susceptible to dying.
To avoid this, most growers remove the flower stalks before the […]
Growing in poor conditions - Week 6
Our experiment has entered it’s sixth week and will be shortly heading into the middle of the summer when they will be exposed to the most sun.
The test plants are looking fairly healthy but have lost some of the red colouration from their leaves in comparison to our control plant which is in a sunnier […]
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