Dionaea
Charles Powell, II (Mon, 30 Apr 2007 10:57:39 PDT)
Venus fly traps are fairly easy to grow, if given their like - pure
water, lots of sun, and winter dormancy - lost of any of these will
kill them in the long run. Growing medium can be a sphagnum peat/
coarse sand mix at about 1:3 or 1:4, or a peat/sphagnum moss mix, at
about the same ratio, with or without sand, or straight sphagnum
moss. The traps will trigger 3-4 times before dying and if they
don't get anything to eat (like your triggering the traps for fun)
your slowly killing the plant. Their native to a small region in
Virginia, not far from DC, and there are many, many different
cultivars now days - check out some of the carnivorous plant
discussion groups.
Best,
Chuck
On Apr 30, 2007, at 9:00 AM, pbs-request@lists.ibiblio.org wrote:
I am responding to the above discussion on Venus Fly Traps - I have
seen
them growing wild in the Appalachicola State Forest here in FL and
they prefer
open sunny locations with moist acidic soils, not too different
than where you
would find pitcher plants. They die back during the winter months
and come
back up in the spring. I don't know if they need a winter
dormancy, like our
pitcher plants seem to need in order to thrive long term or how
much cold
they can handle - but we get some solid freezes each winter that
far north.