any help with looking after a venus flytrap plant please.?

Answer 1

Go here:

http://www.botany.org/bsa/misc/carn.html

here is how to take care of it....

The Venus Flytrap is one of the easiest carnivorous plants to grow. If you wish to grow one or more, they have only a few requirements such as, wet roots, high humidity, full sunlight, and poor, acidic soil. It comes shipped to you as a bulb or rhizome. Plant it root side down so that the top of the bulb is even with the soil. A recommended soil mixture is one that contains sphagnum moss and sand. Do not add fertilizer or lime. Your plants will do better if you transplant them into new soil every few years.

In order to provide high humidity for your Venus Flytrap, plant it in a terrarium or in a glass container with a small opening. An old aquarium or fish bowl make good containers for this purpose. You need to watch your terrarium in the summer because the temperature inside the glass may get too hot. Two hours in the sun may be sufficient. If your plants wilt, then they need to come out of the sun sooner. Just the opposite is true for winter. If it gets very cold in your area you may need to move your plants away from the window or cover them at night in order to keep them warm and moist. However, your Venus' Flytrap will experience a dormant period in the winter, from Thanksgiving to Valentine's Day so it needs fewer hours of daylight and cooler temperatures.

Another way is to plant it in a pot and place the pot in a larger container such as a bucket. Partially cover the top of the bucket with a piece of glass or Plexiglas. Don't cover the entire top because air needs to circulate.

If you grow your plant outside, it will get enough insects to eat. If it rains the container may fill up with water but this will not hurt the plants, they can live underwater for months. If you grow your plant inside you will need to feed it insects. A couple of houseflies or small slugs per month is enough during the growing season. Do your plant a favor and do NOT feed it hamburger! Indigestion, rot may occur and usually your plant will die. Find a "just right" sized bug instead!

Answer 2

They need high humidity, and lots of light without heat. They do very well in a terarriam, and keep moist. They do go dormit in the winter time, and at that time do desire cold conditions. They can only feed a couple of times then the spore does die, cut off spore to continue growth to other feeders. They also bloom a flower, cut flower off a soon as possible to also continue growth. They do produce their own sense to attract small bugs, do not feed hamberger this is not encouraged, force feeding enables the plant from doing what it is to naturally do. They are very delicate. Good Luck they are a really neat plant.

Answer 3

Transplant to a larger pot with spagnum moss. Keep the feet wet with a tray under the shallow pot. The plant likes lots of all day light, some direct sunlight. Catch flies and put them in the pocket using a tweezers. Wash daily with spring water, (not tap water). Keep out of the frost.

http://www.thegardenhelper.com/flytrap.html

Answer 4

Venus flytraps have to be in the right conditions. Outside their condition (basically a hot and humid bog) they are hard to grow.

Answer 5

Just got one myself, keep it moist, use distilled water, not tap water, see the link below:

It is currently digesting 2 flies it caught the other day.

Answer 6

use distilled water to give the plant, and keep away from dogs, my dog ate my venus fly trap

Answer 7

It only needs to eat once about every six weeks, so don't worry about it being underfed unless you've never seen it eat anything.

I feed mine parmesan cheese, and it seems to like that well enough...

Answer 8

Hire someone else to feed it! Haven't you seen Little Shop of Horrors???

Answer 9

And don't feed it bacon bits. My daughter tried that, lol. The poor plant died.

Answer 10

http://www.cobraplant.com/venus-flytrap.html