Some Carnivorous Plant Pics.

Just thought I would throw up some pics of my son's Carnivorous plant collection. He does an AMAZING job.

very interesting, any further info on em?

f'ing cool man i would like to try some. my dad told me you could feed it raw meat

Those in the pics are various forms of Sarracenia, Drosera, Flytrap, and Nepenthes. I can for sure post more pictures later.

Raw meat isn't the best actually. He keeps fruit fly cultures and lets ghose go in with the plants from time to time. Also he feeds whatever he finds crawing around.

so awesome....thanks for posting!

amazing...

cooool man!! thanks

Super Cool man I didn't even know some of those existed. good to see the venus fly trap in such great condition everytime I grew one of those they died.See if you can get some insects in those traps and take some pics man.Your son must be a natural greenthumb

would be awesome but they gotta be a pain in the ass to feed. any other way to feed them other than flies?

drolove said:

would be awesome but they gotta be a pain in the ass to feed. any other way to feed them other than flies?

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You can feed them insects but not beetles I found out probally would be best to use tweezers for spiders and such so you don't get bit or stung

HIGHFLY said:

You can feed them insects but not beetles I found out probally would be best to use tweezers for spiders and such so you don't get bit or stung

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ya but i dont want to have to go chase down bugs for my plants. normally im taking precautions to get rid of bugs lol. i guess what im trying to say is do they make food substitutes for them? do they even actually NEED to eat bugs?

When they are seedlings the really don't need to eat. He releases wingless fruit fly cultures in the domes and the plants will eat those in a couple of days. In the summer the trays will go outside and they will become mass murderes destroying any little bug that comes into their path. Some people will grind up betta pellets into a powder and sprinkle that over their plants. He doesn't do that. We like to keep things organic.

Wow great pics man. Ive never been able to keep the venus flytraps alive. Any tips?

Bright light. Just like weed they love light. A difference though is they like to be a bit more humid. Also they do well in solo cups vs. the store pots because their roots are pretty long. Feed an ant or something once in a while. Stay away from anything that will rot. Bugs, not hamburger.

Last week I was looking these up, if I had the room I'd probably do some Sarracenia since they are the most aggressive.

nice i was thinking about doing a bunch outdoors and see how they do. then i dont gotta feed them

drolove said:

nice i was thinking about doing a bunch outdoors and see how they do. then i dont gotta feed them

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Another good way is to put something dead or smelly by it to attract flies

Glad I too found this in the thousands of posts here .. Very impressive collection of Insectivorous plants your son has there .. I love Botany well outside of the Marijuana field of study .. Plants simply amaze me and the carnivore plants even more so ..

Professor - I agree 100%. We have tons of plants around here. A nice garden, giant pumpkins, I have a large orchid collection, SUPER hot peppers. We grow all sorts of stuff.

Here are some more Carnivorous pics...

This is a Pygmy Drosera in flower. Of the ones he has I like the Pygmy Drosera species the most.








Some Drosera affinis leaf starts. Pretty cool really, float a leaf and in a month or so a new plant will grow.


A small 'Fused Tooth' Flytrap seedling.

whats the best medium to grow in for those kind of plants?