[pbs] Dionaea
Charles Powell, II
powell2 at sbcglobal.net
Mon Apr 30 13:57:39 EDT 2007
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 at 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.
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