Growing a Venus Fly Trap Indoors in a Dry Environment

Step 6: Planting

Venus fly traps require some very specific planting conditions. They need soil that has zero nutrients; they're evolved to live in a nutrient-poor environment and derive nutrients from the insects they eat. They also need to be watered with distilled water, as the nutrients in tap water build up over time and can be hazardous. I suspect that purified bottled water (not spring) will work as well, but I've only ever used the distilled water you can by in gallon jugs at grocery stores. I took a mixture of 1/2 peat soil and 1/2 pearlite, soaked it in distilled water in a ziploc bag, and spread out a layer in the bottom of the terrarium about an inch and a half thick. I made a hole to the bottom and

Comments

[mseba]

use aquarium lamps for growing plants led lights are not the same.... nice done

[mrmerino]

I am not totally sure, but I am like 90% sure that chlorophyll just needs red and blue light to survive, green is useless.

[mseba]

not sure but i think u are wrong.... for ex. "flora glo" is a neon specially made 4 growing plants it imitates the natural light... i do not think we are taking about surviving here, its about growing....

[fjchorn]

Nicely done, do you think the leds will have the right type of light to power your plant?