How Do You Care For A Carnivorous Plant?
Carnivorous plants are thought to be an advanced species, hard for the amateur botanist. This article will take you through the magnificent world of carnivorous plants. • Buy your plant. When you buy your plant, it may be in a small container with a dome cover. You might think about moving it to a larger terrarium just in case you want add more plants later. The domes are not needed but the plant may need to be slowly acclimated to the outside humidity. Remove them slowly. If the nursery can sell exotic tropical plants with no domes, they should sell North Carolina’s own Venus flytrap without them as well. • Prepare your plant’s container and soil. Most experts recommend a potting mixture of 60% peat moss and 40% perlite, or clean sand. You can now add your plant to the pot. • Use a spray bottle and wet the top of the potting mixture well. If you are growing in sphagnum moss then you don’t need to water as much because of water retention, but that does not mean let it get dry. Water fr
