wim

I've just started growing bananas, but I've been growing carnivorous plants for over 23 years. A Venus Flytrap is an easy grower.

Just a few rules
- only give it rain water. Tap water or water comming from a (drilled) well may contain chalc and other salts, and even the smallest amount of nutrients (salts) at its roots may kill it.
- if you want to transplant it only use peat, perlite and coarse sand. Rinse the sand several times to remove any salts present. 4 peat/ 1 perlite /1 sand
- that is, a carnivorous plant will dy as soon as there are fertilisers (any salt, chalc) that reach its roots. So you must not fertilise it.
- put it during the growing season in full sun
- it's a swamp plant, keep its soil always wet
- during winter, allow it to go dormant and don't try to feed it during that period or the traps will rot
- if you want a big plant, you can feed it living insects, spiders, ... Only living insects will provoke the plant to digest the captured prey, otherwse the plant will think i'ts a leaf or twig and it will reopen its trap without even trying to digest whatever is captured.
- don't close the traps on purpose with your finger, twig, ... Each trap can't close more often than 5 to 6 times. It takes a lot of energy from the plant to close a trap, you'd only weaken your plant without giving anything in return

So in a nutshell, only give it things that cost nothing, but give plenty of it
- water, use the cheapest (rain water), it's a swamp plant give it lots of water
- licht, sunlight is free, put it in your sunniest window

Happy growing

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With kind regards
Wim