🪴Hello my beautiful Poppers! Meet my Venus' Fly Trap! I absolutely love this guy! Taking proper care of a Carnivorous Plant like this is super easy if you know what your doing.🪴
📋Here is a condensed BUT informative breakdown of How To Properly Take Care Of A Venus' Fly Trap! ⬇️⬇️⬇️
💧First thing’s first. Your Venus flytrap requires distilled water BUT all you really need to know, is that you should water your Venus flytrap with water that has undergone reverse osmosis. You can buy gallon jugs from your local grocery store (usually about $0.99)💧
🚨Avoid spring and tap water – the mineral content is too high, and it will damage and eventually kill your flytrap.🚨
🏜 If you live in a drier region, it’s best to acclimate the plant to lower humidity levels. Start by removing the flytrap from its container for a few hours, then returning it for the rest of the day. Each day, remove the plant for a couple extra hours. After a few days, you can remove it entirely. ⏳
❓How and what do I feed it, you ask?! Keep on reading and I'll tell ya! ⬇️⬇️
🪰Stick to bugs. Don’t feed your flytrap meat, or anything other than what it would naturally catch in the wild. Anything else will cause the traps to rot before the plant can extract sufficient nutrients from the food. Make sure the bugs are 1/3 to 1/2 the size of the trap itself, so that the trap can completely seal around the insect.🕷🕷 Anything bigger, and the trap will have a hard time sealing and may rot. Anything smaller, and the prey may escape between the teeth.🕷
🐛 If live prey like crickets or mealworms isn’t your thing, try dead insects that you can rehydrate by soaking in water before feeding to your plant. I use dried Mealworms that my local Nursery told me to buy.🪱
🥢If you’re feeding the plant dead insects, you’ll need to slide a toothpick between the teeth and gently rub the inside surface of the trap to stimulate the trigger hairs manually.🥢
🏡If you’re growing indoors, a simple rule of thumb is to feed 1-3 trap per week at most!☝
🪴🏥 If you overfeed, your plant may produce smaller traps until it has a chance to recover. I just try to imagine how sleepy and lazy I feel after a big meal – it’s kind-of like that.😴
😱 By the way, each individual trap is good for 1-3 meals before it dies. Traps take about ten days to digest prey and stay closed the entire time. It's easy to tell if your plant is dying because they start to turn Black! 🖤
📢 Okay, so there are the basics for feeding and watering a Venus' Fly Trap! I hope you like this one and that it wasn't too icky for ya?!🪱
❓Have you ever owned a Venus' Fly Trap?
❓What would you feed it?
❓Do you have a favorite plant in your house? Let me know in the comments below! ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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