How to Repot and Care for your Venus Flytrap.

[@jrpLDN]

Perfect, thank you 🪴

[@Leafy17]

Very well made! Question, how often do you think a venus fly trap should be repotted?

[@plantanarts]

Every 1 to years and it’s best to repot during dormancy period or closer to the start of spring. However if you buy it now from Home Depot I would repot it as that medium probably has too many minerals from the tap water big box store use to water these plants and these plants don’t like tap water. Use distilled, rain or reverse osmosis water only.

[@Leafy17]

@@plantanarts alright sounds good. I've been taking care of mine for 3 years and still going strong. There's alot of misconception and lack of info online about how often these little predators should be repotted. Mine just came out of dormancy, so I'll repot him next fall.

[@ginakelsey]

Looks like she's using soil

[@Leafy17]

@@ginakelsey not what I asked and my question was already answered

[@AnthonyDoesYouTube]

Looks like it needs a special type of soil though, ​@@ginakelsey

[@iwatcher69]

When they ask, tell your Venus flytrap winter has arrived.

[@plantanarts]

😂😂

[@JohnWill-qf2cn]

I added you,but I was going to tell you that I've seen a few other videos, and they strain the peralite, taking it from a milky white, until it's clear,but I don't know if it is necessary?

[@ptitenoli9219]

I reppoted it yesterday. Just saw your video now. I didn't soak the peat moss... should I do it again? T_T

[@Queesers]

I just bought mine should i repot it now?

[@Nike_707]

It's time to repot for me because i found multiple pants growing in the same pot.. however, I only tried repotting once. I never touched the traps or anything, but they all closed and wilted..that was an year ago and I'm a little scared of that happening again, but I wonder why that could have happened tho.

[@plantanarts]

@@Nike_707 they die back during fall/winter and then push out new traps during the warmer months of the year. During the fall most people remove their traps and just leave the rhizome alone and hold back on watering until spring comes around.

[@y0._.]

​@plantanarts is it a good idea to leave the rhizome alone?

[@Sevendytwo]

How should the soil feel in terms of water?

[@plantanarts]

@@Sevendytwo not soggy, once I wet it I basically squeeze out most of the water and press it as I put it in the pot so more water comes out of the drainage holes too. It should feel like molding clay with very little moisture. And then once it’s potted you can keep it on a dish with about an inch of distilled water all the time

[@Sevendytwo]

@@plantanarts haven't watered mine since I over watered the first time, think it should be fine now with a few millimeters of water

[@plantanarts]

@@Sevendytwo yeah some people don’t keep it sitting on a tray with water and they just keep an eye on it to make sure it doesn’t dry out completely so you should be good.

[@kigaeres]

Hey, I'm very new to plant care and have no experience. I just wanted to know why it needs to be distilled water? Ty :>

[@kitina]

Regular tap water contains chlorine and minerals. Carnivorous plants require water that is low in minerals so the safest is distilled or reverse osmosis water. Rain water is good too as long as it's clean

[@plantanarts]

Because venus flytraps grow in bogs, and bogs are known to be low in nutrients and minerals. Not that there aren't any nutrients and minerals in bogs but other plants there consume these nutrients before the flytrap plant can and the minerals found in bogs are very little compared to the ones found in tap water. That's also why the Venus flytrap gets most of its nutrients from insects. Also, the minerals in bogs are not as harmful compared to the minerals and salts in tap water. You can measure the total dissolved solids, (minerals, metals, salts, ions) found in your tap water, using a TDS meter. It won't specifically tell you how much of each there is but it gives you a pretty good average of all the solids found in your water that are not an H2O molecule. Carnivorous plants are recommended to be watered with water that has TDS levels of 90 PPM or lower, (rain, reverse osmosis, and distilled water meet this criteria) tap water TDS reading levels vary from area to area for example mine reads about 240PPM and it is considered safe to drink, I think anything higher than 400PPM is not considered safe to drink. Same idea goes for carnivorous plants, they will die from all the excess and high amounts of minerals they are not used to growing in.

[@plantanarts]

I hope my lengthy response makes sense. The same goes for orchids because if you think about it, these plants (well some orchids) grow on the surfaces of other plants and the only water they get is rainwater, low in TDS reading levels. Also buying distilled water can get so annoying, so if you want you can buy a zero water filter which is better than the Brita filter, I just ordered one. but basically, that will filter out most of these minerals leaving you with safe-to-use water for your Venus flytrap and yourself.

[@kigaeres]

@@plantanarts thank you so much! :D

[@kigaeres]

@@kitina thank you! :>

[@sandraseo8820]

Always full sun, never partial

[@Warlock-ke2sw]

Defiently should have wetted the peatmoss before doing it. Bless!!!!

[@ImDeskin_NotYou]

Eeww, what is that crappy soil from the home depot??