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EJ
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| Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 11:10 pm Post subject: Carnivorous plants |
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Does anyone have any experience of successfully growing carnivorous plants? My darling received a pack from my mum for Christmas and he adores them, but between us well always manage to kill them!
I know they should be watered with rain water, but I am never sure if they should go out into the garden in the summer or remain in the house...full sun or shade.....greenhouse or coservatory??? So much to learn!
 
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eileen
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| Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 1:48 am Post subject: |
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I have a couple of pitcher plants in the house EJ and they're doing really well.  I water them with tepid, tap water and they thrive on it. However, I have 'soft' water here in West Lothian so if your water is hard then maybe distilled or rain water would be a better idea.
Must remember to take some piccies for you.
I also have some carnivorous plants outdoors -pitcher plants (different kind from indoors), butterwort, sundew and I did have some others from Mexico and a Venus fly trap but I think I may have lost them to frost.  When all this rain finally stops I'll nip out and try to get piccies of them too.
Here are some sites that may help Ava with growing his:
www.rdrop.com/users/mvz/growcp.htm
www.bugbitingplants.com/carnivorous_plants_care.php
www.petflytrap.com/care.html
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EJ
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ooo Eileen, sorry I missed your posts, somtimes my 'puter doesn't tell me there are new threads to read.....
Anyhow, great great meat eating plants you have there! Ava and I are sooooooooooo impressed! He is going to check out the websites you listed and we shall have to take photos if, as and when his plants start to grow!
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eileen
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Keeping my fingers crossed for you EJ. Carniverous plants have always fascinated me. I hope to start collecting some British 'wild' insect eating plants this year. 
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LaurensMG
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| Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 2:05 am Post subject: Nice... |
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I have always loved carnivorous plants. I had some venus flytraps, until I went on a week long vacation and they dried up. They make excellent house plants but usually require high humidity, making them perfect for a terrarium. And you are correct about the rain water, most tap water contains excess minerals which can easily kill your plants. I always used unmineralized bottled water which never did anything to my plants. And someone correct me if I am wrong but I believe these plants do best if protected from allot of direct sunlight; they do require a good amount of light just not too much direct sunlight.
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madcow305
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I love carnivorous plants too. Thanks for the advice guys, I'm having alot more success with mine now.
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