Propagating Venus Fly Trap – Leaf-pulls

I did my first leaf-pull when I found a distorted leaf with a blackened trap. Since it wasn’t looking its best it didn’t seem too much of a sacrifice to experiment with it. After a few weeks, I saw a nub forming at the base of the leaf. This soon became a baby dionaea muscipula pink [...]

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Dionaea muscipula pink venus

My pink venus loves the sun. Since moving it to the front of the garden where it enjoys the sun all day, it has responded well and thrown out more leaves and traps. Even the colour has deepened. The plantlet that grew from a leaf I had stuck into the sphagnum moss is growing as [...]

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Venus fly traps

“See, don’t touch!” I read the terse notice. “What a killjoy. What antisocial behavior,” I thought. That was during my pre-carnivorous plant days. Now I am tempted to stick a similar notice for my VFTs. When I read that a Dionaea muscipula (VFT) trap turns black once it’s closed 3 or 4 times, I paled. Have I ever [...]

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