extreegrowerrr
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Venus fly traps need to go dominan in winter time...plant in pure sphagnum peat moss never feed fertilizer only pure distiller water keep the medium soaking wet with Full sun and you will have beautiful fly traps...easy
Thanks very much for the quick reply and info - I'll check that site out right away.Yeah, those sundews will take care of any gnats, I have a mate who used them in his mushroom farm.
Just have them always standing in water, up halfway or more up the pot is fine and never give nutes of any kind..Your bugs are their nutes. When your flytraps die, they are not dead as someone mentioned, just dormant..Dont let them dry out and they will wake up again. You can/may have to spray them with your plants too as aphids and mites can also attack them. Yeah I have some wild sundews near me and a few on the porch..Some nepenthes as well, those would be epic to have but not in your grow, just around.
Do a google search for "Pan's Carnivores"..That guy has plants that would blow your mind. And cheap cheap in dollar rate..
Hi & thanks for joining in.Venus Flytraps take a long time to mature from seed, be patient. In the meantime you may want to try and get plants, there are a variety of sites on the net that sell them. I’ve grown a lot of carnivorous plants over the years, don’t have any at the moment.
One of the most amazing things I’ve seen was a sphagnum bog in Canada that was just covered with Sundews, and big ones. It was like I was on a different planet.
Sadly, these will be the only things I'll be growing (for now). I must wait until "legal" hits here in Cannaba, I mean Canada. Spring 2017 is the timeline for legislation.Most of these require fairly large insects, mites gnats thrips etc don't get taken out. Green fly will devastate them in days. They are fine for house fly's or adventurous spiders but don't pin your hopes of controlling a grow with these plants.
Do a google search for "Pan's Carnivores"..That guy has plants that would blow your mind. And cheap cheap in dollar rate..
Another thing if your looking for bug remedies is more bugs! An example...
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A praying mantis can destroy bugs (and humming birds apparently), but I don't know if they would attack anthing that gets into an indoor grow. There are tons of natural preditors that farmers use to get rid of unwanted insects. Lady bugs eat tons of afids a day is another example. But I guess I did start this thread about killer plants so I'm already off topic.