I am growing mine indoors, here’s my info: Venus fly traps do require a period of at least 3 months of dormancy. Usually mid November-February. You never want your plant to be dormant in a space less that 30 degrees Fahrenheit or it will freeze it but if you can find a cool garage or a cooler windowsill, that will work well. I’ve seen some put in freezer but I would save that for last resort. During this time, you will reduce the light it gets significantly and let dry out before filling tray with water. Once February comes about, you can start to slowly introduce it back to more light for a few hours until you get it back to its original space and setup. Any other questions, leave them below!
You have a sundew in the nursery bought flytrap!! Make sure it is not a tropical variety bc if you put it into the cold when you make the flytrap go dormant it will kill it if it is not temperate. 💖💖💖
Thank you for all your tips and tricks! I just might try and have a Venus fly trap again! Btw, have you ever tried growing plants like strawberries or tomatoes in a garden?
How would you suggest helping them with dormancy when living in central florida (zone 9b)? We had a bit of colder weather but not 3 months of 35-50 degrees
I just bought a Golden Pothos plant and a Lemon Lime plant. My pothos’ roots are already out of the pot and dark. Should I use Perlite and orchid bark or something else? I need help in care. I’m scrolling through these vids to help my plant
Thank you for telling people to get one from a local nursery! I work a small nursery and spend so much time keeping our carnivorous plants happy and teaching customers how to do the same - it boils my blood seeing those plants trapped in plastic death prisons at big box stores!
@@PlantswithKrystal yay!! I’m looking forward to it 💖🌟 I love your content, you always suck me into CZcams shorts with your beautiful personality and well loved plantlings!!
I need to separate mine, but I've been terrified of repoting it, so this is definitely helpful. ETA: repoitted mine, and apparently, I had *14* individual plants. They are thriving and I have 7 flowers coming up (in this case the flowers are fine because the plant is clearly healthy)
@@Ant392 unfortunately you're probably going to want to get some. Regular soil isn't going to work. Recommended is peat moss mixed with sand or perlite. You can also get a carnivorous plant pre mix, too
I have a plant crisis and you were the first source I ran to once I tried to do damage control. Things were finally going well. I thought I just beat spider mites, nope. Suddenly two plants are infected with what I believe to be centipede or milipedes. My Hoya wax plant died out of no where right after being watered (granted prior it had not been watered for a bit but I suspect soft rot) and my lemon tree which hasn't given me fruit in years suddenly dropped all of its leave out of no where. How do I contain the bugs? And where do you go with plant questions? How do I know if soft rot or root rot killed a plant once it is dead? Thank you for taking the time to read this comment! Tommorrow I discover if I still have a star fruit plant
I am STRUGGLING with my VFT!!! I got it as a freebie in the same pot as a drosera I bought. It was doing well (super tiny about an inch and a half across with 4-5 leaves, all had traps.) I fed it a tiny pantry moth that i wouded and its all been down hill from there. Now I can only keep the leaves alive long enough for a new one to start and no traps. I literally have one leaf about 1.5cm long with no trap (I cut it because it was black) and a tiny little sprout of a leaf coming out. Only thing I left out was that when the traps started dying I took it out of the drosera pot because it seemed like the traps were dying because they were hitting the edges of the pot - not the case. When I repotted it, it was so happy, until it wasn't. My most recent thought was that I put it in too big of a pot. So I repotted it again into one of those measuring cups that come with cough medicine. That was 2 days ago and a day after I did this it started growing a new leaf. My newest theory is that I kept water available at all times under the pot, so no I am letting the very top of the soil to dry before I water. I have never had so much trouble with a plant! Anyone with advice will be appreciated.
Krystal, I have a couple of questions for you. Do you bottom-feed all of your plants? And when you repot a plant do you water it right afterward or wait 5-7 days? And, when replanting a plant that is reaching and you cut some of the bottom of the stem off do you let it form a scab on it before planting it or just go ahead after cutting it and plant it immediately? I'm sorry for so many questions but I recently found your channel and I love watching you! You have so much knowledge about plants and I would love your advice on what to do! Thanks! Have a great one! 💛 🪴 ☀️
I have one from walmart and its overall really healthy, im feeding it love bugs and small cockroaches and its growing sprouts and growing an inch every month! Edit:i just read your info and I'm glad i got this venus in may and have a crazy plant lady as a mom! 😂
Do you have or know anything about Lithops? I was scrolling Etsy and looking for things to grow and propagate that I can’t find locally. I came across them and just had to get the tiny little dudes. They might be called living stones but they look like little butts.
I bought a VFT from Walmart that almost every trap was black and the soil was dry I asked them for a discount as the price was $6 they said they would do $3 I asked them for $2 they agreed as I told them I didn’t want to spend that much if it was going to die. I cut off all the dead traps so it looked like a rhizome ball and roots changed the soil to fresh soil (peat and perlite) now few months later it has green growing and even has its first tiny trap starting to appear so it looks like it will make it.
I would cut that flower stem to promote growth even more, as it takes lots of energy for it to flower. You can put it in normal tap water in a vase and it might still flower though.
Love this but some futer advice drop them blurpull lighting and get a full spectrum. Them lights seriously have poor affects with lack of spectrum like green. Very important for penetration.
Hi! I recently bought one of them from my local home depot in one of those plastic boxes. I unboxed it and left it in its original pot for about 2-3 weeks and then decided to replant it. I replanted it in a terracotta pot with a standard potting mix (The websites I looked at said it was okay) and about a day later, it died! I still have it but all of the traps are dead. I am really interested in Venus Fly traps though so I may have to try again with one from a nursery. Any tips or advice on what I did wrong the first time?
Minerals are toxic to Venus flytraps and terra cotta pots have minerals since it’s from the ground. I would stick with plastic pots, distilled water, and a carnivorous mix. Hope this helps and you have good luck with your flytraps!
Do you use the sphagnum moss for a lot of plants? Kind of random ? but I do like to mix my own soil & want to know if I should add it to my supplies. 😁
...ok so it's February now and my fly trap has been getting grow light and water all winter.... 😱 What do I do now??? She seems healthy and happy.... do I try to let her go dormant now and wake her up in the summer?
mine in one of those plastic box containers killed my Whole Crop of Medicinal plants because it had Spider Mites😱😱😱 I am going to do mine by seed when I do them again cuz I REFUSE having That happen again and The Best way is by popping my own seeds. I think I want blue or purple ones this time cuz why not.
So I got a Venus fly trap before but it died during dormancy due to underwatering (I used up my supply of rainwater )And recently found another one from b and q (uk shop)Anyways I know that it’s probably just come out of dormancy as it has small traps and looks weak but a question i have is what are bugs that I can find in my yard to feed it?I tried ants and small flies but they always escape the trap because of how small they are ,keep in mind I can’t get mealworms or bloodworms because of my Mum being terrified of them (she won’t let me get them)All I have fed it so far was a small ant that didn’t escape and also some fish food because I heard they could eat that.
Also!!! Unless you plan on growing venus fly traps as a hobby cut down the flower! Venus fly traps have bery limited energy because of having to eat, so cutting the flower off puts that energy into making more mouths and growing bigger! Also, they drop mouths frequently, so don’t be afraid when one of them turns black, just prune it!
I pulled one before it killed the others and made a mistake and pulled a healthy and large one. It has no root. How do I get it to root? I was told you pull them when they black
i have the best home for mine cause i have a huge window in my room with huge i mena extremly huge it has alot of sun coming in a lil break then more sun in the summer and good water aka rain water ill put a bucket outside to fill with rain water i heard venus flytraps need rain water is that correct?
I would get the actual plant vs seeds especially if you’re just starting out. I buy mine from my local nursery or have gotten from Californiacarnivores.com
Hii ik you probably won see this comment because it's a rlly old video but i brought one a couple days ago and have noticed tonesss of super tiny bugs. Is there any way i can identify if these are good bugs or bad bugs? If so how
I am growing mine indoors, here’s my info: Venus fly traps do require a period of at least 3 months of dormancy. Usually mid November-February. You never want your plant to be dormant in a space less that 30 degrees Fahrenheit or it will freeze it but if you can find a cool garage or a cooler windowsill, that will work well. I’ve seen some put in freezer but I would save that for last resort.
During this time, you will reduce the light it gets significantly and let dry out before filling tray with water. Once February comes about, you can start to slowly introduce it back to more light for a few hours until you get it back to its original space and setup.
Any other questions, leave them below!
You have a sundew in the nursery bought flytrap!! Make sure it is not a tropical variety bc if you put it into the cold when you make the flytrap go dormant it will kill it if it is not temperate. 💖💖💖
Thank you for all your tips and tricks! I just might try and have a Venus fly trap again! Btw, have you ever tried growing plants like strawberries or tomatoes in a garden?
How would you suggest helping them with dormancy when living in central florida (zone 9b)? We had a bit of colder weather but not 3 months of 35-50 degrees
I just bought a Golden Pothos plant and a Lemon Lime plant. My pothos’ roots are already out of the pot and dark. Should I use Perlite and orchid bark or something else? I need help in care. I’m scrolling through these vids to help my plant
Ahmm. Hello, I'm actually curious about your growlight. What does the color mean? Does a type of plant need a type of color?
can we grow one large enough to feed coworkers to it?
Oooo like Audrey II?
Little shop of horors stylw 😆
Feed it anabolic steroids!!
I wish I could find one for annoying neighbours and my sister’s in-laws lol…
I with you, we need a man eating plant
Thank you for telling people to get one from a local nursery! I work a small nursery and spend so much time keeping our carnivorous plants happy and teaching customers how to do the same - it boils my blood seeing those plants trapped in plastic death prisons at big box stores!
So you don’t care about that women owned company?
Can we get a plant tour??? !! Look at all the beautiful blooming orchids on top of the grow cabinet!
Yes! I will be doing a plant room tour in longer format very soon.
@@PlantswithKrystal yay!! I’m looking forward to it 💖🌟 I love your content, you always suck me into CZcams shorts with your beautiful personality and well loved plantlings!!
I would love that! ❤️
@@PlantswithKrystal i cannot wait!
I need to separate mine, but I've been terrified of repoting it, so this is definitely helpful.
ETA: repoitted mine, and apparently, I had *14* individual plants. They are thriving and I have 7 flowers coming up (in this case the flowers are fine because the plant is clearly healthy)
What type of soil should I use?
I don’t have moss
@@Ant392 unfortunately you're probably going to want to get some. Regular soil isn't going to work. Recommended is peat moss mixed with sand or perlite. You can also get a carnivorous plant pre mix, too
I love the way you bring life to your talking it’s so lovely to hear your interacting with your plants. I love mine
I started getting into plants because of your videos I never felt confident you make everything straight to the point and easy to follow!💗
Ty for considering us southern hemisphere folks who have autumn just around the corner ❤️
I have a plant crisis and you were the first source I ran to once I tried to do damage control. Things were finally going well. I thought I just beat spider mites, nope. Suddenly two plants are infected with what I believe to be centipede or milipedes. My Hoya wax plant died out of no where right after being watered (granted prior it had not been watered for a bit but I suspect soft rot) and my lemon tree which hasn't given me fruit in years suddenly dropped all of its leave out of no where. How do I contain the bugs? And where do you go with plant questions? How do I know if soft rot or root rot killed a plant once it is dead? Thank you for taking the time to read this comment! Tommorrow I discover if I still have a star fruit plant
A plant nursery might be good to ask. I don’t know a whole lot about infestations but, but I would definitely try a plant nursery.
@@lilyisalittleflower446 thank you!
Your expression. You are getting so intimidated by these. Love this and love you
I Love This! I seriously need to get out and buy one of these!
Thanks for making this video! You are the best!
I always wonder why those plant store are the worst to keep alive plant. Beautiful job krystal ☀️
Thank god i found your channel again, haha. Your stuffs always so helpful!
Thank you for these tips. Now I did get mine from the Home Depot. To my surprise, I got new traps!!! Your tips have come at a good time.
I am STRUGGLING with my VFT!!! I got it as a freebie in the same pot as a drosera I bought. It was doing well (super tiny about an inch and a half across with 4-5 leaves, all had traps.) I fed it a tiny pantry moth that i wouded and its all been down hill from there. Now I can only keep the leaves alive long enough for a new one to start and no traps. I literally have one leaf about 1.5cm long with no trap (I cut it because it was black) and a tiny little sprout of a leaf coming out.
Only thing I left out was that when the traps started dying I took it out of the drosera pot because it seemed like the traps were dying because they were hitting the edges of the pot - not the case. When I repotted it, it was so happy, until it wasn't. My most recent thought was that I put it in too big of a pot. So I repotted it again into one of those measuring cups that come with cough medicine. That was 2 days ago and a day after I did this it started growing a new leaf. My newest theory is that I kept water available at all times under the pot, so no I am letting the very top of the soil to dry before I water. I have never had so much trouble with a plant! Anyone with advice will be appreciated.
Krystal ! YOU ARE AN INSPIRATION !
Thank You 😊
💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗
Just thank you for everything!!
Please please make longer videos.. I love your channel so much and you're so helpfull 😊
I bought one for my son from the big box store and it was dead within a couple weeks. He was so sad. Now I know to buy them else where.
They often deliberate have bad instructions on them. So you kill them and buy another one.
The Venus fly trap is very nice 👌
Krystal, I have a couple of questions for you. Do you bottom-feed all of your plants? And when you repot a plant do you water it right afterward or wait 5-7 days? And, when replanting a plant that is reaching and you cut some of the bottom of the stem off do you let it form a scab on it before planting it or just go ahead after cutting it and plant it immediately? I'm sorry for so many questions but I recently found your channel and I love watching you! You have so much knowledge about plants and I would love your advice on what to do! Thanks! Have a great one! 💛 🪴 ☀️
It’s so prettyyy❤
Even she's so pretty
I got mine from Lowe’s because it looked so lonely… It’s so happy now!
I have one from walmart and its overall really healthy, im feeding it love bugs and small cockroaches and its growing sprouts and growing an inch every month!
Edit:i just read your info and I'm glad i got this venus in may and have a crazy plant lady as a mom! 😂
Do you have or know anything about Lithops? I was scrolling Etsy and looking for things to grow and propagate that I can’t find locally. I came across them and just had to get the tiny little dudes. They might be called living stones but they look like little butts.
After you said "little butts" I knew EXACTLY what plant you were talking about 😂😂😂
@@MissPersephoneParker they were so cute, I had to get them, it was a bulk order of 50 for $20. 😳 I couldn’t stop myself
A skilled delicate plant mom touch
What grow lights do you use? I like the colors! Do you have any videos of your setup?😊
could you get a bonsai and show us how to care? I got one from Walmart and it seems to be doing well, but your always so good at explaining
Im in love. That’s all. 😅❤
I bought a VFT from Walmart that almost every trap was black and the soil was dry I asked them for a discount as the price was $6 they said they would do $3 I asked them for $2 they agreed as I told them I didn’t want to spend that much if it was going to die. I cut off all the dead traps so it looked like a rhizome ball and roots changed the soil to fresh soil (peat and perlite) now few months later it has green growing and even has its first tiny trap starting to appear so it looks like it will make it.
Hi Krystal! I’m thinking about getting a Pilea (Pancake Plant) and I was just wondering, what soil would you recommend using? What brand as well?
I would cut that flower stem to promote growth even more, as it takes lots of energy for it to flower. You can put it in normal tap water in a vase and it might still flower though.
Love this but some futer advice drop them blurpull lighting and get a full spectrum. Them lights seriously have poor affects with lack of spectrum like green. Very important for penetration.
So cutie⚘🤗🌷
Hi! I recently bought one of them from my local home depot in one of those plastic boxes. I unboxed it and left it in its original pot for about 2-3 weeks and then decided to replant it. I replanted it in a terracotta pot with a standard potting mix (The websites I looked at said it was okay) and about a day later, it died! I still have it but all of the traps are dead. I am really interested in Venus Fly traps though so I may have to try again with one from a nursery. Any tips or advice on what I did wrong the first time?
Minerals are toxic to Venus flytraps and terra cotta pots have minerals since it’s from the ground. I would stick with plastic pots, distilled water, and a carnivorous mix. Hope this helps and you have good luck with your flytraps!
Thank you so much! I can't wait to try again with this new info and I'll let you know how it goes! :)
question!! can I use distilled water for common plants ? like succulents ?
Do you use the sphagnum moss for a lot of plants? Kind of random ? but I do like to mix my own soil & want to know if I should add it to my supplies. 😁
I got mine in the box and after I put him in his spot he caught a fly, that was an area where there were about three Flys. The fly is still in there.
Could you please talk about those lights in the closets?
...ok so it's February now and my fly trap has been getting grow light and water all winter.... 😱
What do I do now???
She seems healthy and happy.... do I try to let her go dormant now and wake her up in the summer?
Que iluminación usas marca cuanto tiempo a que distancia etc
@PlantswithKrystal >>> 👍👍
Cool
Thanks!!!
Why not the other option in the beginning?
Is it necessary/recommend to soak your peat moss when trying to repot?
I'm not sure if it would be less work owning a pet lizard...
When you are just getting into plants and just so happen to find this channel….
Happy to have you here!
Do you rinse out the roots with tap water or distilled water
If I buy from a local nursery do I need to repot out of soil and into your sphagnum moss/perlite mix?
No not at all. The one I bought from my local nursery is set up nicely in a carnivorous soil mix. The one in the box was a mess 😂
You talk about the dormancy period how to you do it can come out of it?
mine in one of those plastic box containers killed my Whole Crop of Medicinal plants because it had Spider Mites😱😱😱 I am going to do mine by seed when I do them again cuz I REFUSE having That happen again and The Best way is by popping my own seeds. I think I want blue or purple ones this time cuz why not.
So I got a Venus fly trap before but it died during dormancy due to underwatering (I used up my supply of rainwater )And recently found another one from b and q (uk shop)Anyways I know that it’s probably just come out of dormancy as it has small traps and looks weak but a question i have is what are bugs that I can find in my yard to feed it?I tried ants and small flies but they always escape the trap because of how small they are ,keep in mind I can’t get mealworms or bloodworms because of my Mum being terrified of them (she won’t let me get them)All I have fed it so far was a small ant that didn’t escape and also some fish food because I heard they could eat that.
That grow light white shelf you have in the corner where can I get one of those ?
Have you ever grown dragon fruit seeds
What can you do if you can't get spagnum moss and perlite
What if the whole thing went black and now there's nothing left 😭
Same. Dormant forever. 😑
Does it really change its leaves every period or not and how long does the change period last?
Will it/can it survive with out bugs/meaty creatures?
They other guy said to just leave them outdoors cause they like sitting under the sun? So idk im confused now
How about peatmoss?
Where do I get those shelves
What happens if she doesn't go dormant? Will she be ok?
Also!!! Unless you plan on growing venus fly traps as a hobby cut down the flower! Venus fly traps have bery limited energy because of having to eat, so cutting the flower off puts that energy into making more mouths and growing bigger! Also, they drop mouths frequently, so don’t be afraid when one of them turns black, just prune it!
But wouldn’t you want to save the traps in boxes??????
I got mine a couple days ago and she has caught a few fruit flies.. am I over feeding without even feeding her? Any suggestions?
I pulled one before it killed the others and made a mistake and pulled a healthy and large one. It has no root. How do I get it to root? I was told you pull them when they black
FYI, this only close 2-4 before they die, so don’t poke it.
The bottom half can’t be seen due to the text.
Will Pineneedles work?
In the southern part of the US you can leave these suckers outside.
So no pot soil?
Where is you grow light cabinet from
Mine died because gnats kept setting them off, and they can't catch them. 😒
What if i want to buy it in june does it still have to go into dormancy?
i have the best home for mine cause i have a huge window in my room with huge i mena extremly huge it has alot of sun coming in a lil break then more sun in the summer and good water aka rain water ill put a bucket outside to fill with rain water i heard venus flytraps need rain water is that correct?
Do you have a sensitive plant because I planted mine over 1month ago and it not growing help😭
someone please tell me where she got her plant stand with the lights??!! been waiting for her to post about it haha
It’s from ikea. It’s called the rudsta. I spray painted it white. The lights are grow lights from Amazon.
Do you happen to have pitcher plants lol. Ive just dived into that world and i have no idea what im doing 😂😂
Where can I buy venus fly trap seeds ? Or the plant ?
I would get the actual plant vs seeds especially if you’re just starting out. I buy mine from my local nursery or have gotten from Californiacarnivores.com
Hii ik you probably won see this comment because it's a rlly old video but i brought one a couple days ago and have noticed tonesss of super tiny bugs. Is there any way i can identify if these are good bugs or bad bugs? If so how
Weird question but can they bite you lmao?
😂🤣always gotta smell....yyyyyukkk.Still luv you though.💚❤️
Each trap can be set off 3,4 times. Maybe 5 if the main plant is really healthy. If you have gnats, go sundews. Stupid gnats....
Thank you, this is a helpful recommendation. Where I live, we have a lot of gnats over summer.
I just got to ask is there any available apartments near you😂😂😂
Lmaooooo
Plant people are exhausting. Too many rules to plant care. I don’t have time to take care of plants when they’re all so temperamental.
Could you please do some videos on pitcher plants??? I want some so badly but mine dont grow and end up dying
I've heard that the pitcher plant Nepethes Ventrata is a bit more forgiving than other ones. The hybrids are a bit hardier.