Venus fly traps

I've heard the zipper in your pants called "penis fly traps"...

Good reason to not go commando r1

r1's penis is known to slurp flies, just like venus fly traps.

Do you have to feed it meat?

No, r4, I leave mine outside and it eats flies. The healthiest plant eats about two-three flies a day.

FEED ME MEAT - UNCUT, PLEASE!

Here are my tips:

1) Repot in a carnivorous plant soil mixture-- I bought mine on Amazon for $7. It's made of perlite and moss. Venus fly traps cannot live in potting soil of any other kind.

2) They take distilled water or rainwater ONLY. Regular water will kill them. They need to be kept moist all the time or the will DIE.

3) A friend of mind keeps telling me to feed it hamburger. Don't do that! It's better to let them eat when ready. They need moisture more than meat (unlike the WHORE at r6).

I love them too. So much I stopped buying them because I killed them

And I remember being amazed that they're from South Carolina and not Southeast Asia, South America or South Africa

Ive had one for a year that I repotted in standard potting soil and I’ve been watering it with tap water and it’s doing great r7

That's great to know, r10!

ANOTHER classic DL thread...

R1 I immediately visualized someone putting their dickhead in one to get tickled.

r13 has a history of getting his dickhead tickled in the most surprising places.

We had wild Sundew plants in the northeast, also carnivorous, but not as dramatic and glamorous as a Venus Flytrap.

The Sundews were a lot smaller and more passive. They sat there like tiny, hairy, sticky, spoons, waiting for the bugs to land. When they did land they stuck to some kid of plant based superglue. And died. Slowly.

If they ever grew big enough they would eat us too. We'd die. Slowly.

Feed me Seymour!

Was that^ every kids' first exposure to carnivorous plants?

It wasn't mine. Mine happened during an episode of the original Avengers, John Steed and Emma Peel. A MAN EATING PLANT! I was in elementary school. And I have always had second thoughts about ferns.

I really love ferns but it took a while. Like escargot.

I was at the public library the next day, right after school.(our school library was limited and Mrs. Dupont The Librarian had brearhtakingly bad halitosis)

I got a couple of pitcher plants to keep the venus fly traps company.

I'm worried about what might be in OP's basement

r17, mine was, "Day of the Triffids", watching it on Creature Features on WGN with my Dad.

I am NOT for sale!

You might find this thread of interest, OP

Would you like a Cadillac car?

Or a guest-spot on Jack Paar?

How about a date with Hedy Lamarr?

I grow a number of different plants: Drosera, Pinguicula and Utricularia, but alas, no Dionaea. As mentioned above, they don't like tap water, and prefer to grow in sphagnum moss.

They are all over the Tablelands in Newfoundland.

I want to get a sundew next.

A botanist friend keeps a carnivorous plant garden in a barrel planter next to her side garden. It includes venus fly traps, sundews, and pitcher plants in a mossy, damp soil. It's beautiful when all the plants are thriving at the height of summer.

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