Venus Flytrap
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Where do you get these, and how often do you feed them? Never occurred to me to buy carniverous plants, but that's cool.
I had a dendrology (identification of trees) class in college and remember seeing pitcher plants in the middle of sphagnum bogs in northern michigan. If you've never been on one, it's like walking on a waterbed.
I had a dendrology (identification of trees) class in college and remember seeing pitcher plants in the middle of sphagnum bogs in northern michigan. If you've never been on one, it's like walking on a waterbed.
Shytheed Dumas said:
I know for a fact you can get them in the garden section at Wal*Mart.
I spent an hour or so one day entertaining myself by poking them and making them close up on my finger.
...boy, that sounds like some kind of fetish if you read that in the wrong mindset, doesn't it?
SHUT UP MIKE.
JustAnotherVictim
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i never figgured out how to take care of mine. every time i fed it the "mouths" would turn black and shrivel away, then the whole plant died. guess i'm better with mechanical things.
Those are cool looking traps. I had one years ago (the regular ones). My mom gave it a piece of hamburger....thats killed it
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Yellow 13 said:
You need one of these, reminds me of the movie "Tremors"
Where the hell do you find this shit?
got mine at lowes in the garden section. the key is to let em eat whenever they want to. i work at a convenience store part time so flies are easy to come by. it looks like the pitcher plant already got four, and one of the flytraps is still gnawing on a mosquito i gave it two days ago.
basically, if you don't feed them, you just have to make sure the soil is good and healthy for them to draw all the nutrients out of. they mainly eat bugs to support life in harsher soil conditions.
not sure how big these things get, but i left for school this morning and everything was fine. i come back this afternoon to find a little sprout at the base about 2mm big. this evening i'm looking at it and its already tripled in size. fast little things.
as for my war on bugs, i had another thread about the interesting ways i killed the bastards.
basically, if you don't feed them, you just have to make sure the soil is good and healthy for them to draw all the nutrients out of. they mainly eat bugs to support life in harsher soil conditions.
not sure how big these things get, but i left for school this morning and everything was fine. i come back this afternoon to find a little sprout at the base about 2mm big. this evening i'm looking at it and its already tripled in size. fast little things.
as for my war on bugs, i had another thread about the interesting ways i killed the bastards.
Shytheed Dumas said:What, were you trying to feed it Skoal?
im going to jack this thread real quick....last year my mom went outta town and i had a bunch of ppl over, this kid shawn fed my paraket(sp) skoal and within idk 2 days i guess the damn thing fell over dead, no lie. i felt like shit, im guessin because of all the smoke and my house like mom doesnt allow smoking...haha idk im rambling it made me think of my bird though haha