I love my plants dearly and so many of them at that! But my husband is only really interested in venus fly traps , he’s commented how they are pretty cool lol, so I decided to get him one but i didnt know how to transplant it from a medium to moss so thank you so much! I hope he likes it!
Brilliant! Let me know how you get on or if you have another questions, remember to give them water very low in minerals, like Revers osmosis, rain water or distilled! aim to keep the media moist but not wet and you should be good! Ill have more care videos out in the future 😁
My Dad sent me the link to this video and I planted my first Venus Fly traps following your directions. They have been outside in Virginia in the USA and have almost tripled in size! The Sphagnum moss really is a great substrate from my limited experience with it. Thanks for the educational videos 👍🏻
thanks Ian, yes it is a nice substrate indeed. its best I believe in climates where the sun and temps are not too brutal otherwise it can dry out too fast and the moss tends to deteriorate much faster also.
I lived near the one place on earth where they grow in Carolina. I searched for them, but just had to buy some. I like them a lot, glad to see how toi make them live.
Fantastic! I have managed to turn 1 flytrap into 3 using carnivorous plant compost but this method looks a lot simpler and less messy. I may have missed it, but did you put drainage holes at the bottom of the cups?
You lucky begger! 🤣 Are you just trying to make me highly jealous!!! Yeah you can, and nothing looks as nice as live Sphagnum Moss with carnivorous plants.
should i wear gloves when handling sphagnum peat moss cause google said i should wear protective gloves, long pants and long shirt since it can carry fungal disease
I've never heard of this LoneWolf, and neither from anyone in the carnivorous plant community. It sounds like hogwash, sphagnum moss naturally contains iodine, has been used for centuries as bandage packer to keep wounds clean as it has antifungal properties. Buy a good sphagnum moss, the new Zealand stuff is very good.
That's normal for them to look shabby during winter dormancy. Mine looked a mess also, full of dead leafs. Just give them a clean up, and repot the ones you think need it. Happy growing G!!
Best Video about repotting that i have seen. No one else goes thru the detailed steps as you do. Also showing the plant each step along the way. Thank You !
I'm super new to having plants (and keeping them alive) but I was given a venus fly trap and it's a bunch of them all squished together. They all seem droopy and don't respo d when flies land 9n them. Is it even still alive?
hard to say, Venus flytraps will be entering dormancy now and they do tend to slow down a little with there trapping mechanism. However a slow trap can be signs that the plant is not getting enough direct strong light. Venus flytraps love strong direct light, many think they make good semi shade window plants but this is a big misconception more light the better! It could also be suffering from incorrect watering, make sure they are receiving rain water or reverse osmosis, distilled. Generally tap water is very high in salts, which will kill the plant. or it could be receiving too much water or too little... 🤣 I know... they temperamental little things. shoot me a pic on twitter or insta, links are in the description if you like.
Thank you so much for the video! I bought a Venus fly trap on an impulse and I didn't know what to do! Just came back from the store for the moss and I hope my little guy will thrive!!!
Yo Alex! I use the same brand of moss and basically do the same thing you are doing. I re-potted most of mine in that moss this year, except for a few. That brand (Besgrow) is really good. My flytraps are really starting to take off now under the lights, I'll be acclimating them t outdoor Sun in the next week or so! 13 years for me growing these plants!
Nice one Tommy! I think it's 12 years for me, I remember finding flytrapcare.com and was like oh wow a community of people that actually are as obsessed as I am...lol. Before that I would buy a plant at the garden center and they would just be dead a few weeks later and I couldn't fathom it. I'm trying a few media's this year, LFS, Coco pith with silica which I had since last year with nice results and I'll try Coco pith with silica with some blond peat mixed in also. Need to plant my seeds also. Keep putting it off...
Hi, I enjoyed this video but I have a few questions, are you using rain water or distilled water to soak the moss? Can you reuse the moss if it drys out? How often do you change the moss? Sorry if I missed that information if it was given in the video. I have vft and I think it's time move to a bigger pot. She's in a 3inch but she is growing so nice, she been eating good too lol no I don't feed her at all she gets on her own! Thanks for the information provided.
To soak the moss, rain/ distilled/ reverse osmosis will be all fine, the same water you use to water the plants. The moss can be rehydrated if it dries out and it depends on your climate and how long the moss lasts. in a cooler climate where the sun is not so strong and intense, most can last a long time and if you top it off with live sphagnum, that can look beautiful, and it's alive and will keep growing. Here where I live tho... the temp is so high in summer and the sun so strong it deteriorates the sphagnum much faster and I can see some of my pots from last year, I reckon next year I will have to re-pot. I will lily plant them into a Coco quire and silica mix that I have the others in. Coco quire needs a lot of pre-treatment though before it can be safely used as it's full of salt. I would just stick to sphagnum if I were you and you seeing good results. New Zealand Sphagnum is the best.
New to this. Got a kit given to me, and I now know I’m doing it all wrong. Luckily they seem to be growing ok, but I’ll need sphagnum moss and pure water before I kill them. Thanks for the information.
Excellent. I plan on making a care series in time, various videos covering the care and propogation of Venus Flytraps. Be sure to join flytrapcare.com forum also, many of us there, it's a wealth of knowledge that place!
New to it from USA I used peat at bottom so moss on top and around the plant root but I didn’t rap it like a taco I just stuffed it in the whole I hope they make it got them from hardware store soil was turning black lost like two traps but I fill the four remaining traps and looks like it helped the flower spike grow pretty long after the first couple feedings I cut off just cuz I replanted and I was in bad shape but looking good now we will see
what water do u use for venus flytrap? people say cant use tap water, if so, should i buy distill water from supermarket? also if i have to use grow led for it, how many hours per day should i give them?
I run my light for 16 hours a day and have a few small vft divisions under it im bringing on as well as other things. Yes in general you can not use tap water because it is very hard, meaning it has a high mineral content. there are areas that do have tap water very low in minerals and can be used for vfts. but in most places, the tap water is not adequate. Yes, distilled water will work well, once you start growing your collection though it might be more economical to install a reverse osmosis system. you can also collect rainwater and use this.
Thank you, the first google result and this answered everything, no need to look further, I bought a VFT last week here in South Africa and decided to transfer it to my own pot as i did not like the pot it came in. I made so many mistakes during that process and my plant started turning dull from what was bright green because i added potting soil from our garden and I used wellpoint water. Thanks to your video I have just done replanting it in Peat and Pearlite and already it looks better. I could not find Spaghnum 4 hours at 4pm so i urgently bought peat, the plant looks happier now. Thank YOU!
Oh nice its ranking on Google! brilliant stuff 😃 I'd like to make more Venus flytrap car vids, problem is its super niche and doesn't get much traction, but I could try and make them quicker and not tart around too much. Make sure you give them a good rinsing with pure water, reverse osmosis, rain water or distilled. Hope that they continue to recover :-)
They are just styrofoam cups! And I burn with a hot rod holes in the bottom. It took ages for me to find a supplier here in Spain that sell big cups. They are ideal as they insulate very well, especially here as it gets extremely hot in summer. Also they are deep and Venus Flytraps like Deep pots.
Both but recently I been bottom watering much more often. Top watering is more time consuming and you want to avoid wetting the crown and do it early in the day so the sun can dry them off and it does not promote rot of fungus. Top watering has the benefit of clearing away mineral build up provided you discard the water that's coming out of the bottom. Bottom watering is faster, and helps keep the surface drier so as to avoid fungus issues, but in time, depending on water mineral content, even though very low, in time can build up to dangerous levels and it helps to flush the soil out from time to time.
I’m very new to plants, so if you don’t mind my asking how do you go about watering a plant from the bottom? Like you don’t flip it upside down and water it from the bottom do you?
@@Jame629 he did!! I have him in the new greenhouse at the moment, before that under the grow lights. Coming on very well, still tiny but not as tiny as before 😂 I'll try and make a follow up video soonish with prize draw.
rain water, distilled or revers osmosis. carnivores plants need water very low in minerals. i aim to keep the media moist but not wet, it should feel moist but not feel swamped.
What are the chances I had the exact same bag of sphagnum moss for my reptiles in the house 👍
I love my plants dearly and so many of them at that! But my husband is only really interested in venus fly traps , he’s commented how they are pretty cool lol, so I decided to get him one but i didnt know how to transplant it from a medium to moss so thank you so much! I hope he likes it!
Brilliant! Let me know how you get on or if you have another questions, remember to give them water very low in minerals, like Revers osmosis, rain water or distilled! aim to keep the media moist but not wet and you should be good! Ill have more care videos out in the future 😁
That little plant is so darling….do hope he does well. I am new to VFTs. Live in Scotland but have got a grow light to keep my plants under.
Pet moss perlite and sand
Baby Venus 🎉
My Dad sent me the link to this video and I planted my first Venus Fly traps following your directions. They have been outside in Virginia in the USA and have almost tripled in size! The Sphagnum moss really is a great substrate from my limited experience with it. Thanks for the educational videos 👍🏻
thanks Ian, yes it is a nice substrate indeed. its best I believe in climates where the sun and temps are not too brutal otherwise it can dry out too fast and the moss tends to deteriorate much faster also.
I lived near the one place on earth where they grow in Carolina. I searched for them, but just had to buy some. I like them a lot, glad to see how toi make them live.
That baby plant🥰🥰🥰
Hello . Is live moss suitable for insectivorous Venus?
Yep, works very well. You can use it as top dressing also.
Fantastic! I have managed to turn 1 flytrap into 3 using carnivorous plant compost but this method looks a lot simpler and less messy. I may have missed it, but did you put drainage holes at the bottom of the cups?
is it safe to use sphagnum moss from outside? i live in scotland and theres lots of it on the ground
You lucky begger! 🤣 Are you just trying to make me highly jealous!!! Yeah you can, and nothing looks as nice as live Sphagnum Moss with carnivorous plants.
Great video, and great catch with the little one!! I’d love seeds!! (U.S.).
should i wear gloves when handling sphagnum peat moss cause google said i should wear protective gloves, long pants and long shirt since it can carry fungal disease
I've never heard of this LoneWolf, and neither from anyone in the carnivorous plant community. It sounds like hogwash, sphagnum moss naturally contains iodine, has been used for centuries as bandage packer to keep wounds clean as it has antifungal properties. Buy a good sphagnum moss, the new Zealand stuff is very good.
@@GreenthumbsGarden well actually i had bought sphagnum moss on amazon so its prob not from new zealand
@@GreenthumbsGarden anyways i'm excited my venus fly trap was just delivered today and i put it near a couple windowsills with a grow light over it
Very detailed video!
Thanks Gary, I'm thinking to do a whole Venus flytrap care guild and propogation series.
My flytrap is looking a little rough after the winter. I’m going to try repotting it using this process tomorrow. Thanks for the video.
That's normal for them to look shabby during winter dormancy. Mine looked a mess also, full of dead leafs. Just give them a clean up, and repot the ones you think need it. Happy growing G!!
So you dont use any other stuff like turf or so?
Not when growing in LFS, you can add half perlite to the mix some do.
Hi from alberta canada 🇨🇦
Hi! 😁
Best Video about repotting that i have seen. No one else goes thru the detailed steps as you do. Also showing the plant each step along the way. Thank You !
thanks Darrel 🙃 glad you found it usefull!
Thank you for the information
You're welcome, glad you enjoy the content @memawcrabb 😀 Happy growing!! 🌱
USA thanks for your tips! Love your channel. New to Venus Fly Traps
Thanks for subbing! flytrapcare.com is a brilliant resource too!
great tutorial, works for my venus flytraps
Glad it helped 😃
Beautiful video man. Explained exactly what I needed!
Glad you liked it!
I would love some seeds or a plant!! Yes I’m in America
Great vid!! Love your plants and your accent...Regards Duncan from Alberta Can.
Thank you! Cheers from Malaga Spain!
I'm super new to having plants (and keeping them alive) but I was given a venus fly trap and it's a bunch of them all squished together. They all seem droopy and don't respo d when flies land 9n them. Is it even still alive?
hard to say, Venus flytraps will be entering dormancy now and they do tend to slow down a little with there trapping mechanism. However a slow trap can be signs that the plant is not getting enough direct strong light. Venus flytraps love strong direct light, many think they make good semi shade window plants but this is a big misconception more light the better! It could also be suffering from incorrect watering, make sure they are receiving rain water or reverse osmosis, distilled. Generally tap water is very high in salts, which will kill the plant. or it could be receiving too much water or too little... 🤣 I know... they temperamental little things. shoot me a pic on twitter or insta, links are in the description if you like.
Thank you so much for the video! I bought a Venus fly trap on an impulse and I didn't know what to do! Just came back from the store for the moss and I hope my little guy will thrive!!!
Great job! Remember only use rain water or distilled, or if you have a reverse osmosis system that works very well 🙂
Yo Alex! I use the same brand of moss and basically do the same thing you are doing. I re-potted most of mine in that moss this year, except for a few. That brand (Besgrow) is really good. My flytraps are really starting to take off now under the lights, I'll be acclimating them t outdoor Sun in the next week or so! 13 years for me growing these plants!
Nice one Tommy! I think it's 12 years for me, I remember finding flytrapcare.com and was like oh wow a community of people that actually are as obsessed as I am...lol. Before that I would buy a plant at the garden center and they would just be dead a few weeks later and I couldn't fathom it. I'm trying a few media's this year, LFS, Coco pith with silica which I had since last year with nice results and I'll try Coco pith with silica with some blond peat mixed in also. Need to plant my seeds also. Keep putting it off...
Hi, I enjoyed this video but I have a few questions, are you using rain water or distilled water to soak the moss? Can you reuse the moss if it drys out? How often do you change the moss? Sorry if I missed that information if it was given in the video. I have vft and I think it's time move to a bigger pot. She's in a 3inch but she is growing so nice, she been eating good too lol no I don't feed her at all she gets on her own! Thanks for the information provided.
To soak the moss, rain/ distilled/ reverse osmosis will be all fine, the same water you use to water the plants. The moss can be rehydrated if it dries out and it depends on your climate and how long the moss lasts. in a cooler climate where the sun is not so strong and intense, most can last a long time and if you top it off with live sphagnum, that can look beautiful, and it's alive and will keep growing. Here where I live tho... the temp is so high in summer and the sun so strong it deteriorates the sphagnum much faster and I can see some of my pots from last year, I reckon next year I will have to re-pot. I will lily plant them into a Coco quire and silica mix that I have the others in. Coco quire needs a lot of pre-treatment though before it can be safely used as it's full of salt. I would just stick to sphagnum if I were you and you seeing good results. New Zealand Sphagnum is the best.
I'm late to the game, but how did the baby flytrap fare? Thanks for the video, I'm following your advice an reporting my first VFT today!
doing good, will update this week in a vid
New to this. Got a kit given to me, and I now know I’m doing it all wrong. Luckily they seem to be growing ok, but I’ll need sphagnum moss and pure water before I kill them. Thanks for the information.
Excellent. I plan on making a care series in time, various videos covering the care and propogation of Venus Flytraps. Be sure to join flytrapcare.com forum also, many of us there, it's a wealth of knowledge that place!
New to it from USA I used peat at bottom so moss on top and around the plant root but I didn’t rap it like a taco I just stuffed it in the whole I hope they make it got them from hardware store soil was turning black lost like two traps but I fill the four remaining traps and looks like it helped the flower spike grow pretty long after the first couple feedings I cut off just cuz I replanted and I was in bad shape but looking good now we will see
let me know how it goes! the reason for wrapping it is to ensure the roots are in good contact with the media and don't dry out.
Gonna copy your technique 👍
what water do u use for venus flytrap? people say cant use tap water, if so, should i buy distill water from supermarket? also if i have to use grow led for it, how many hours per day should i give them?
I run my light for 16 hours a day and have a few small vft divisions under it im bringing on as well as other things. Yes in general you can not use tap water because it is very hard, meaning it has a high mineral content. there are areas that do have tap water very low in minerals and can be used for vfts. but in most places, the tap water is not adequate. Yes, distilled water will work well, once you start growing your collection though it might be more economical to install a reverse osmosis system. you can also collect rainwater and use this.
Did you put holes in the bottom of the pot?????
Hello from Canada!! Thanks for the great content, love your videos😇 Sending lots of good energy over there.
Thanks so much!!
Love this video so informative and such tender care!
Glad you enjoyed it R! 😄
Does retail dried sphagnum works?
yeah, just check it has no fertilizer additives.
Fantastic ! Got my venus Fly trap last year and it needs re-potting your video made it so easy and straight forward thank you ! 😊
great! thanks Liz :-)
Thanks for the information! I just got my first plant 🥰
You're welcome, glad you enjoy the content wflower2226 😀 Happy growing!! 🌱
Thank you, the first google result and this answered everything, no need to look further, I bought a VFT last week here in South Africa and decided to transfer it to my own pot as i did not like the pot it came in. I made so many mistakes during that process and my plant started turning dull from what was bright green because i added potting soil from our garden and I used wellpoint water.
Thanks to your video I have just done replanting it in Peat and Pearlite and already it looks better. I could not find Spaghnum 4 hours at 4pm so i urgently bought peat, the plant looks happier now.
Thank YOU!
Oh nice its ranking on Google! brilliant stuff 😃 I'd like to make more Venus flytrap car vids, problem is its super niche and doesn't get much traction, but I could try and make them quicker and not tart around too much. Make sure you give them a good rinsing with pure water, reverse osmosis, rain water or distilled. Hope that they continue to recover :-)
Very informative video, thanks 😊
Thanks John, glad you enjoyed it 🙃
Irish???
About to repot mine! You are extremely helpful
Glad it was helpful! 👍
Love the cups! did you make those? Great idea for this Texas heat!
What are they called? Or where can you buy them?
They are just styrofoam cups! And I burn with a hot rod holes in the bottom. It took ages for me to find a supplier here in Spain that sell big cups. They are ideal as they insulate very well, especially here as it gets extremely hot in summer. Also they are deep and Venus Flytraps like Deep pots.
Thanks, your energy for the hobby is contagious
Glad you enjoy it! :)
Love it!! Can't wait to see how the little one does!
Dont have to wait, here is the update lol. ua-cam.com/video/RU_V2yrZkog/v-deo.html
Great info. Question: Do you water these from the top or just sit them in some water?
Both but recently I been bottom watering much more often. Top watering is more time consuming and you want to avoid wetting the crown and do it early in the day so the sun can dry them off and it does not promote rot of fungus. Top watering has the benefit of clearing away mineral build up provided you discard the water that's coming out of the bottom. Bottom watering is faster, and helps keep the surface drier so as to avoid fungus issues, but in time, depending on water mineral content, even though very low, in time can build up to dangerous levels and it helps to flush the soil out from time to time.
I’m very new to plants, so if you don’t mind my asking how do you go about watering a plant from the bottom? Like you don’t flip it upside down and water it from the bottom do you?
Like 107 send me him 😅🤣🤣joking cool video
Oh wow its true!! Now I need to re-watch that video in the morning and see what my big mouth went and said... 😂🤣🤣
@@GreenthumbsGarden sending the little fellow positive vibes dude definitely would love a follow up video If the tiny trap made it 👍💚
@@Jame629 he did!! I have him in the new greenhouse at the moment, before that under the grow lights. Coming on very well, still tiny but not as tiny as before 😂 I'll try and make a follow up video soonish with prize draw.
@@GreenthumbsGarden well done excellent news that is so cool thanks 😅
What should I do as far was watering goes?
rain water, distilled or revers osmosis. carnivores plants need water very low in minerals. i aim to keep the media moist but not wet, it should feel moist but not feel swamped.
@@GreenthumbsGarden Thanks!