i bought a venus fly trap today.but what can i feed it?
Hi, you should feed it bugs and one bug per month, keep it in a dome because they need very high humidity, distiled water and rain water only, do not use tap water because the clorine in the water is poison to it and will kill it, you can buy distiled water at grocery stores they are about 1$ for 4L, you will have to put it dormant as soon as you see green leaves starting to turn into black leaves, remove the venus flytrap from the pot and clip of the old leaves, put the distiled water in a misting bottle and mist it make sure to leave the spaghnum moss around it, then put it in a plastic bag and seal it, leave it in the refrigerator for 4-5 months and then when the time is passed pot it up again do not put it in regular potting soil because there is too much nutrients in it, there is enough nutrients with the bugs, slowly introduce your venus flytrap to the outside when all danger of frost is passed, oh and they love to be misted, mist them with distiled water only and when you need to water it use a tray and feel it up with distiled water and let it let the pot sit in for 15 minutes and the water will evaporate up, do not put the distiled water in the fridge because if you do and you water your flytrap the water will be cold and freeze the roots, do not use a fertilizer because it will kill the flytraps because it is an overdose of nutrients they are already getting fertilized by the bugs. Repeat the process evry year. If you see little baby flytraps growing on the side just slowly seperate it and pot it up in spaghnum moss and treat it like the mother venus fly trap. I hope this helps.