Can watering my Venus Fly trap hurt it?
Answers: Yes, it is okay. VFTs are boggy plants that love moisture and humidity. Sounds like you are doing great. Let you river sit for 24 hours before using it though.
Unless your VFT is a Red Dragon after letting your water sit out will suffice. Only the Red Dragon requests a totally mineral free water.
FYI...in recent times in overnight case you are unaware of this later you should know that you should never feed your VFT any features of fertilizer or repot it in anything excluding 1/2 perlite and 1/2 peat moss. Fertilizers kill carnivorous plants. Also, when VFTs hibernate for the winter they look as though they own died so don't throw them out. If you are keeping your VFT outside in full sun, as resourcefully you should, then purely put it in a garage or garden shed for the winter, but brand name sure you keep them within their saucer of water while they hibernate. However, if your temps stay above 20 degree for the winter then they can be not here outside to over winter.
"Of the three most commonly available Flytraps on the market (Typical, Dente, and Red Dragon), the Red Dragon is the least possible tolerant of hard sea (over 100 ppm).
We are not sure why, but when we experimented with growing these three variety of Flytraps in tough water (125 ppm), the Red Dragon showed considerable signs of distress and deterioration inwardly a few of months, while the Typical and Dente forms remained healthy and robust." http://www.cobraplant.com/venus-flytrap....
Don't use stroke water. Only distilled. They will die otherwise.
http://www.cobraplant.com/venus-flytrap....
Sounds resembling you are doing a great job.
Dionea muscipula like wet soil conditions. It comes from a fenland environment.
But you must not use tap hose down. It's toxic to them. Use only pure precipitation water or distilled dampen.
take out the rocks from the tray..they might be tallying mineral hardness to the river, which is bad for your plant.
you dont have need of to let the dampen sit 24 hours before using it, because you are NEVER going to use tasp sea..right? ;)
you need to use precipitation water or distilled hose down only.
The rationale you cant use tap wet is because tap marine contains minerals, known as "dampen hardness".
if you use tap wet with your VFT, the pure marine evaporates, leaving the minerals bringing up the rear. (which do *not* evaporate)..over time, the minerals build up to higher and high levels, eventually bloodshed your plant.
thats why you have to use lone rain sea or tap dampen, which has no minerals.
solitary chlorine evaporates out if you let hit water sit for 24 hours..minerals dont step away from tap river...
and you cant use filtered, bottled, or dampen treated by a "softener" either..softeners solely replace one mineral with another.
if you buy it at the store, it MUST read out "distilled" on the bottle.
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Unless your VFT is a Red Dragon then letting your wet sit out will suffice. Only the Red Dragon needs a totally mineral free marine.
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i.e. simply not true..
all VFTs entail pure water..
everywhere you read that, its not true.
for everything you ever wanted to know something like VFT's,
see:
http://www.sarracenia.com/faq/faq2000.ht...
Scot
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