tiggs&oscar
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Joined: Tue Apr 24, 2007 6:51 pm
Location: Scottish Borders

My plants are having a growth spurt right now, my venus flytrap has flowered and despite finding out too late I shouldn't have let it flower ( it is a 30cm stem with delicate white flowers on the end) the plant is ok.

My pitcher plant has sent out plenty of new leaves and I have been keeping both in saucers constantly wet with rainwater and also dripping some into the pitcher funnels. Today, I got two dead flies from a spider web and popped one into a pitcher funnel where it should dissolve and the other onto the flytrap. After jiggling the fly gently the flytrap snapped on it so thanks Sweyn as you were right about feeding them with dead flies.

I'm raising tomato plants inside this year so I will keep the carnies next to them along with a potted marigold to divert the insects!

TO



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