How to Grow Venus Flytraps Indoors
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- Опубліковано 18 тра 2021
- We recommend everyone grow Venus flytraps outdoors if possible but if you can’t, Daniela will explain how you can best grow them indoors. For more information or to order checkout www.californiacarnivores.com
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Those flowers stems are insane. Never seen anything of that scale and I've owned VFTs for several years. Good job.
I have to grow my flytraps and pitcher plants indoors because I live in an apartment with a north facing balcony that gets no sunlight. They do a good job getting rid of all the small flies and ants that sneak in.
This was very usual , I just got my Venus flytrap a few days ago , I’ve been catching bugs go it too eat , just gave it a stink bug and it caught a fly .
They don't want to eat stink bugs.
@@NinjaSushi2did the plant say that
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How do you know this? @@NinjaSushi2
Mother Nature knows best but by dedication to all their needs, indoor growing can be done. I grow mine outside until winter and because it gets super cold & snowy here, I put them in the window of my unheated stairwell. 🌱
I heard snow helps the dormency? Is your place lower than -50c?
@@tomasramirez2914 Snow helps to insulate the plants in dormancy. We occasionally get temps that low...we are on the border of planting zone 5a and 5b. The most dangerous is our constant freeze/thaw weather cycles. 🌱
Hey thank you for the great info, I just placed an order the other day and ordered seven different Venus fly traps and an Australian pitch plant. So excited to get them and put them on display in my public green house. I really appreciate the work you guys and girls do a California carnivores. Thanks big time have a great day
Thank you so much!
Hi, in which website or store these are seeds are available?
Thank you
as the sun moves every hour, You can use mirrors to re-direct the sun light towards the plant to maintain efficient growth and to prevent loss of sun light
It would be great if you did a video all about grow lights. Proper wattage, distance from the plants, bla bla bla. I’ve got 40w-4 goose neck and keep messing with it because I don’t know what distance I’m looking for. I’ve read and watched and done quantum physics trying to get to work the numbers out, but there isn’t anything simple out there. If you have one, I can’t find it. If you never do one, thank you guys so much for all the information you DO have, and everything you do for the community! You guys are wonderful!
Thank you! It’s a complex issue because there are just so so many of them out there and it’s a big subject but it is on our list to do a video about them!
@@California_Carnivores your public eagerly awaits! Good luck tackling such a controversial topics lol
I have a super cheep indoor VFT setup next to my bed.
• 100w corn LED bulb
• Mylar over cardboard in the shape of a reflector.
• Gosund smart plug set at a day/night cycle
Plants are actually coloring up!
PAR at 12in from bulb is around 200 - 250
Mine is indoors year round. I put it in a window that doesnt seal all that well during the fridgid MN winter months and this plant is doing so well. Got it at walmart in one of those plastic cyclanders and ive kept it in that its entire 3 years of existance. Im now learning more about them and will try a different set up. Fingers crossed it does well in its new pot.
Don’t leave it on the plastic thing! it doesn’t like that
A south facing window is also a different way of giving hood light
Don't feed them alot, bad advice, they need about 1 bug per month when they are little, 2 or 3 if there big per month
If grown outdoors, they should catch plenty of bugs 😊 if you don’t see bugs in the traps, which is very unusual in outdoor plants, you can definitely feed them!
Bro I literally put mine in a bonsai pot and on my window sill and it’s vibing it’s easy asf
What!!? But they need deminiralised water and special soil... i think its going to die :0 like this!
@@littlepumpkinseed I give it distilled water and it’s still alive
@kyanjdwyer2214 ow oke! And in normal soil? :) how do you do it for the winter period?? Just leave it and let it regrow it??
@@littlepumpkinseedno it’s not in not in normal soil did u even read the comment..
Every other video I've watched says to feed them 1 mouth at a time, once a month. Definitely not a lot. Also distilled water seems to be pretty important
If you grow them outside, every leaf is catching bugs all the time. They love to eat and are voracious! We have always fed our indoor VFTs lots of mealworms and it really benefits the plants!
@@California_Carnivoreslive mealworns?
@@kaylynnenelson8559 yes! We feed them live food because that is always the best, they will often pop back open without digesting their food if it doesn’t move when the trap is closed
The plant you are holding can be in danger cuz of the seed pod but if you cut it it's fine
We trim off most flowers but this is part of our botanical collection so we let it bloom and make crosses with it! We harvest the seed when the flower turn black and eventually the seed pods split open!
Awesome!
What about pitcher plants?
Sarracenia don’t do that well indoors because they require super full sun. If you want to grow them inside they purpurea hybrids which do better. And if you want to grow tropical pitcher plants, they do really well! We have a few videos in our feed about growing them and lots of tips on our website!
@@California_Carnivores thanks!!
@@California_CarnivoresI live in S. Florida 😅. I have no winters. Is it okay if I place my fly-trap in my fridge for winter dormancy ?
I have a massive fly problem. How many plants should I have to make up for the fact that I live in subtropics and have a large dog?
You’ll want a few large Sarracenia to help but they won’t be the end of flies totally
How often should I feed? Being that they like to be outside especially because of the full sun. Aren’t they getting all the bugs they need? Should I be feeding them as well because they get the food from outside to
If you grow them outside you shouldn’t need to feed them at all! Indoors I’d feed them once every week or two
So how do I know which carnivore plant is native to my zone, and which one to get?
I wouldn’t try to get anything specifically native to your area but just get the plant that will do best in your climate! Sarracenia and flytraps do well outside in zones 8-10 generally and can be grown in other zones with modifications of care. Highland Nepenthes, Pinguicula and sundews can be grown year round as houseplants!
The garden center that I bought mine from said to keep it in a terrarium?? Mine is indoors right now. You say the opposite? If I were to bring it out for the summer should I put it in a regular pot?
They don’t do well in terrariums because they like lots of sunlight, airflow, and insects! If you bring them outside, make sure you transition them to more light slowly so as to avoid shock and keep them sitting in deep saucers of distilled water. They can stay in the small pots they came in or you can pot them into a mix of peat moss and perlite
I bought your book..❤
Thank you!
I keep my vft dormant in the fridge for under 10 degrees celsius without any long periods of natural sunlight or artificial gro lights.
feed them alot? like how often? cause I watched a video and the lady said only feed them once a month per plant.
You can really feed them quite a bit safely, the minimum would be once a month but you can feed any open trap. If you grow them outside you’ll see that almost every trap has a bug!
in the winter the grow light should be on for 8 hours or so correct ?
Yes, try timing it with your natural sunrise and sunset to be in tune with winter day lengths!
Thanks for the tips I have a fly trap and am growing it. Do you think that my trap is healthy I just repotted it you can see in my video?.
Look at those flower stalks
VFT’s spend lots of energy digesting bugs... best to just give lots of sunlight or a proper grow light... max of 1 bug per plant per month, unless it’s outside catching it’s own.. Distilled/RO/rain water only..!!! Must have winter dormancy...
Is it possible to just grow it on a sunny South facing windowsill during summer? With humidity ofc
It can work but you’ll have to watch your plant and see how it reacts, if the traps don’t close well, it grows long wobbly petioles, or loses color, it needs more light
I just got a mini Venus fly trap terrarium kit and it said i should keep the opening tapped up whenever im not watering it, is that bad? Im growing them from seeds and i wanna make sure they survive. It also said to keep the soil moist so ive been spraying it gently with a mister filled with distilled water. I have them in a bright room for now till i can find a better stop or a lamp.
Venus flytraps from seed can be tricky they do need a lot of humidity and you don’t want them to dry out. They can take up to a year to germinate from seeds as well!
Where i live it averages 100+ degrees during the summer sometimes even 110 can i still let them outdoors?
If there’s no night time drop in temps and it’s just over 100 every day for more than a week, that can be a bit much for a flytrap. We just had a week here in the 90-105 and we’ll have another one coming up and they’ll be okay where we are because it cools down at night and we get a few days in the 80’s to calm down the heat!
Shortening the photo period indoors on your grow light triggers dormancy. What hours would you recommend to trigger dormancy? 10 11? hours of light ?
The best thing to do is the fridge dormancy because it’s the combo of shorter photo periods and cooler temps
I’ve heard mealworms can eat the trap ? Is there a certain kind of meal worm to feed it ?
We don’t normally see mealworms eat the traps. We always get the regular kind from the pet store and feed hundreds to our plants.
@@California_Carnivores ok perfect. I’m glad I asked you guys since you clearly do a lot more feeding than most people. Have a great day and thanks for the reply
So you want to grow venus flytrap indoors? My suggestion to you is.... don't. It can be very costly and depending on your space, it may not even work for you. You need a grow light, which depending on what you are going for can be relatively cheap to hundreds of dollars. On top of that they can be a pain to set up. You are also going to either need a very cold windowsill or a refrigerator to induce dormancy (even better if you can somehow get a grow light in there) even then... it tends to be a lot more hassle than it's worth. My suggestion is go for a tropical carnivorous plant like certain types of sundew, pinguicula, or nepenthes. You still have to deal with the grow lights and making sure they are on for a certain number of hours per day, but they don't need dormancy, so you can skip the hardest and most risky part of the process. Learned all this from experience. VFT's are good to germinate indoors, and you can skip up to two dormancies. You can shave a few years off the maturity time of the plant this way, before putting them outside, but actually taking care of a mature one long term?.... no.
When the nursery first started, we saw very few people successfully grow VFTS indoors but over the last 5-10 years we’ve definitely seen more and more peoples who are willing to put in all the work. You are definitely right that it is far more work to grow them indoors!
I mean.... So far mine have been doing pretty well and even take care of getting rid of kitchen pests from our fruit. Granted I bought them before I knew what I was doing and then just had to figure it out. So far they've grown really well. We don't have many options for sunlight since we live in an apartment but we're making it work.
My experience is not that at all. And I'm not using grow lights or anything at all. Just sun and (distilled) water.
For people that live in a cold midwest area. Can you take them out for a few hours of sun and bring them back indoors during the summer?
It’s best to pick a consistent place for them. They don’t love being moved around. You can move them outside for the summer so that they can feast on bugs, just try to leave them outside for a a few months if possible.
What about a terrarium with a removable top and side vents? Would that work or still a no?
You can try it! Just keep an eye out for fungal growth and if you want it to live for more than a few years, you’ll want to give it a chilly winter dormancy.
Does it have to be pearlite, or will pumice stone work just as well?
You can use sand or pumice, we prefer sand as a substitute in this mix.
would insect based fish food and maybe some grindal worms be fine? I don't really know where to get live bugs
Flytraps need live prey to trigger the digestive process ideally. If you want to feed them inert food, you will need to gently massage the trap once it’s closed, without bruising the trap, to simulate the wiggling of the insect. This should help. We get live mealworms from the pet store. Another option is to foliar feed your plants; mist them with diluted Maxsea fertilizer once per month instead!
Do you still feed them if they are left outdoors?
We don’t! They catch so much food they don’t need it
Do you have to mix the perlite with anything else or by itself? I'm getting mixed answers on Pinterest
We like a mix of four parts peat moss and one part perlite!
Flowers aren’t good for the plant?
Correct me if I’m wrong
We like to pinch them back on Venus flytraps
What are the tall stems? I’ve never seen that before on a Venus fly trap.
Those are the flower stalks 😄
I’m in Florida so if I keep the plant outside all year, is that ok?
It depends a little bit on where you are in Florida, if your area doesn’t get cold winter nights, you’ll need to provide a winter dormancy.
How often do you water them
We always keep them sitting in a saucer of water
can they eat dead bugs i bought them leeches will it grow?
They don’t do well with dead bugs as they need the motion of live prey in the traps after they’ve closed to trigger them to digest. You can feed them dead bugs and then gently massage the traps after they close to try to mimic this
Hello Ms.Ribbecke. I am specifically interested in having a Chewbacabra (which you supply and I have not ordered yet). I would like to have it mostly indoors ( garage ) with occasional days in the back yard. I live in Elk Grove not to far from you. I have visited the web site of Carnivero for grow lamps which you suggested in another thread. I'm just starting so it will only be this one plant. Soooooo....my question is this: on the Carnivero site they list many grow lights. The Florawave P80 appears (to my untrained eye) to be a good choice for my present needs. Would you agree?
For just one Venus flytrap, check out the Yescom 225 panel on Amazon, it may be a little cheaper and simpler to start with!
But the florawave is a wonderful and well built light, you can’t go wrong with it if you decide to get one!
They don't really need that many bugs. Feed them once a month. Put live food in only one of the heads.
They can eat a very limited amount and get by but the more you mimic the amount of food they would eat in the wild, the bigger the traps will be and the more traps it will grow 😊
If you want a point of reference my outdoor VFT's catch about 2-3 bugs a week on average.
Do you think that I could use a sansi 24w grow light? And can I use osmocote? Or is osmocote just for pitcher plants?
I haven’t tested that light so I don’t know if it will be sufficient. We recommend the square paneled Yescom lights on Amazon. Osmocote won’t work for Venus flytraps.
Osmocote is for sarracenia and nepenthes. For any kind of Carnivorous plants (except pinguicula) you can use Maxsea 16-16-16 diluted in distilled water. You use 1/4 teaspoon of the powder for 1 gallon of water. Put it in some kind of mister or spray bottle and lightly spray the leaves about once a month. Less is more when it comes to fertilizer. I don't necessarily know how harmful not doing what I am about to say next is, but try to keep the spray on the leaves as much as you can and try to avoid spraying the soil. My plants have grown crazy using this stuff.
I always thought they were meant to be in a terrarium 😩I got one from a grocery store and it came in a plastic container and then it died 😢
It’s a really common misconception! Check out our ultimate guide to growing Venus flytraps and give them another try!
Or you could just put them in a windowsill
feed them alot? i thought you have to feed every few weeks?
Venus flytraps grown outdoors would feed constantly! You can feed them a lot inside but if you’d like to get on a schedule you can feed them every few weeks!
Can they trive outdoors during the fall, Texas weather 60°??
Thrive
They are cold hardy down to 25 degrees and go dormant in winter so they can be left outside in areas that drop into the 60’s
Mmm...what about the summer..indirect sunlight..and we r hitting triple digits THIS WEEK🤔🤔😑😑??
What kind of soil would you recommend for the transplant?
We use four parts peat moss to one part perlite
@@California_Carnivores okay thank you!
How much light do I give them in winter?
If you grow them outdoors, leave them in the full sun for winter. If grown under lights, mimic the natural day lengths of winter and if you do the fridge dormancy method, no light is needed
@@California_Carnivores ok thank u
Where are you find this plants how can i buythis ❤
Checkout our website for all of our available plants www.californiacarnivores.com
How much and how often to feed ?
Maybe once every two weeks only feed one or two traps
If you grow them outside you’ll see every trap has a meal! So you can feed them a lot but we like to feed the ones in our greenhouse once a week and we feed a few traps on each plant
What indoor light would you recommend? Theres so much bs products and info out there :(
YESCOM 225 or Marshydro for a premium indoor light
The YESCOM light is great - it’s usually available on Amazon and is a little square paneled light. You can also get great lights from Carnivero
Viparspectre 600w
Anyone know What’s a good grow light on Amazon????
We’ve always liked the Square panel yescoms but they’ve been discontinued. We haven’t had a chance to try alternatives yet but I recommend joining a Facebook group like Carnivorous Plants Community because they have a lot of good recommendations and resources
@@California_Carnivores thank you! Will do!
Hi, I have a question. Is water from river good or not? We don´t have any rain water right now and I dont like buying a destiled water in plastic bottles, because for me it is waste of money and it is not ecological. So if the water from river is good for carnivorus plants it would be better solution for me. Thanks :)
It depends a lot on the minerals and salts in the river. Carnivorous plants don’t like water with dissolved minerals or salts and some fresh water can be too high in these but some is safe. You can get a TDS meter and check
Just get a gallon of distilled water it's like 1$
@@monke1919 not in my country 😕it is like 3$ for liter
@@luneticfox3036 dang. Well I guess get a tds meter and use it with your river water. If it's below 30 ppm you can use it
@@monke1919 I'll try it, thanks
How many bugs are we talking. I have a bunch of baby Dubia Roaches that I feed mine, but I’m not sure how often. Weekly, bi-weekly?
I’d feed them every week
Ive been told by an expert vft grower, if cared for right, they dont evrn need to eat. Every couple weeks is fine. Not every week, rarely ever.
@@hales6547 I have also heard this regarding feeding.
Can I feed them earth worms?
Those may be too big. You want insects to be a little smaller than the traps.
I'm so bloody confused, when I first got into carnivorous plants, everyone was saying they need full direct sunlight, now I'm seeing people say they need shade, what's going on?!
It can be a little nuanced. Flytraps do like full sun but there are some situations in which they can appreciate full morning sun with protection from afternoon sun. If you live in a very hot, very dry place like Arizona for example. Also, if you bring home a flytrap in the height of summer, you may want to put it in less sun as it adjusts to its new environment, to reduce burning.
My pitcher plants prefer filtered sun and/or shade (the nepenthes, that is). My sarracenia pitcher prefers full sun, along with the venus flytraps.
Feed them a lot? There’s so much mixed information on UA-cam
If they’re grown indoors you can feed them a lot, if they were outside every trap would catch a meal! So you can feed them a lot of bugs safely
Can they eat ants? You know the big red ones
If they’re large enough, yes!
Mine won't eat bugs 😔
It may be that it needs more sunlight if it’s not trapping well!
Water with distilled water!!
And honestly, I grew mine outside for the summer one year and they died outside. I rescued a few from a big box "home" store this spring, they're indoors and just fine. I didn't even bother to put them outside this year.
Yes, always use distilled water!
Mine has only grown leaves and baby heads but the heads don't get any bigger than a small little pfft and then it stops growing. I live in Florida. It gets sun all morning and afternoon. Open air flow, I keep them Moist but they don't grow up!
Did they get a winter dormancy? Are they inside or outside?
@@California_Carnivores I keep it outside during the day, it gets full sunlight. I haven't had them through the winter yet.
@@joey.renaud Usually when the traps don’t form properly and the plant is small, it’s a light issue because these plants like full sun. But it sounds like your plant is getting lots of sun. If you want to email a photo to admin@californiacarnivores.com, I can take a look
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Age of cleave.
Long story short, have a basic understanding of horticulture before trying to do it. Could have made the clip a lot shorter.
Bwhahahaha *just holds up Botany in a Day* ends clip
Venus Flytraos DO NOT need live prey to eat well. In fact , they can go without eating a bug at all and still sustain the same level of nutrients. If you feed them a lot you’re expending ALOT of energy from them.
You can foliar fertilize the leaves if you’d prefer not to feed them 😊 In our 30 years of growing experience, 1000s of Venus flytraps can’t overfeed on bugs when grown in the right conditions, mainly when they’re getting enough light. If you grow them outside, you’ll see they catch unbelievable bugs! And they use the energy well to make more plentiful and bigger traps. Which we also see when we visit them in the wild 😃