Rescue Mission: Saving Dying Venus Flytraps from Walmart

Rescue Mission: Saving Dying Venus Flytraps from Walmart
Join me on an unexpected journey as I rescue nearly dead Venus flytraps from the clearance section at Walmart. In this video, we'll take you step-by-step through the process of reviving these fascinating carnivorous plants, from the moment we find them neglected on the shelves to the rewarding experience of repotting and nurturing them back to health. Learn essential care tips, repotting techniques, and how you can give these plants a second chance at life. Whether you're a seasoned plant lover or new to the world of carnivorous plants, this rescue mission is bound to inspire. Subscribe for more plant rescue stories and tips on caring for your Venus flytraps! #VenusFlytrapRescue #PlantRescue #CarnivorousPlants #GardeningTips #EcoFriendly"

[@allclades]

Have you ever bought a Venus Flytrap or other Carnivorous plant from a big box store? How did it do, is it still alive?

[@plantguy9]

I accidently kept killing flytraps for years. Getting back into the hobby of growing carnivorous plants and found them at Home Depot. I learned a lot more and now they are thriving right now had some flower stalks which I cut off.

[@antwongary3588]

can you tell me why my venus fly traps are all green and they are a good size but won't eat any food and I have four of them that are all the same size all green no death looking and they won't eat at all? Can you tell me what I'm doing wrong?

[@slimcatandme]

I did it's out of the death cube I still haven't repotted it yet. It's thriving sitting in rain water, eating bugs

[@tealbruce7145]

Yes, I have bought three death tubes from Wally world & they are all thriving nicely. They kept producing flower stalks all winter long, so I now have clones too.

[@jamesstricklin1343]

Yes from Lowe's from savannah tn it had one. Black trap itsgrowing new ones

[@MamaTthaOG]

I’ve never had one, but always wanted one, so I finally bought one last week at Walmart. I think I will go back and get some more. I had no idea how to care for one so I have been researching everything I can. I had no idea they needed special water, soil, planters and even live food! I’m so glad I didn’t repot it immediately like I had planned to do in regular potting soil, & instead I looked into how to care for it first, otherwise I would’ve killed it! I ordered everything it needs and should be here any day. Thank you for the information. It helps so much.

[@MamaTthaOG]

I did go buy another one 🥰. And I received all the things I had ordered for these finicky boogers! I hope I can successfully repot them without killing them! I’ve been taking them outside for a few hours a day and they seem to love it. Although, the 1st one had a rough start and all but 3 traps died, but it “seems” to be happy & thriving now. I hope they both survive. 🙏🌱🙏

[@Gareth_thegoober]

thank you so much. you are such a good person for saving these plants, there are only 35,000 left in the wild. you are such a innocent and good soul, i wish you the best and hope you live a long happy life.

[@kailynevyenn8848]

I'm so glad you exist😭 I know nothing about Venus fly traps but I literally just rescued 4 of the same kind you got from Walmart!! Please help me through this journey

[@stevehoppe3488]

How are your VFT's doing now?

[@reginacollins858]

I had a Venus flytrap when I was a little kid and have wanted another one. Now I'm away at uni and, as I was wandering through a market hall, saw a single, struggling Venus flytrap at a plant stall. You best believe it came home to the flat with me!! Now time to revive the little guy. Thanks for your videos! x

[@guydreamr]

Doing the Great Gardner In the Sky's work.

[@lordreaper117.]

I just went to Walmart and bought my first trap yesterday. Out of all of them I saw only two of them that I thought could be salvaged. Took em home and immediately potted them in pearl and Pete. Plus I had a really nice mosaic pot that I needed filled so I’m happy to wait and see the progress it makes in the future

[@Mar13579]

BEST V.F.T. repotting video I’ve seen !!! I love this one, you did a good job ♥️

[@NatureScapes]

Well Done my Friend, Keep the good work going on 👍👍

[@allclades]

Thanks

[@deliciouspancakes3538]

I just got a whole ecosystem of venues fly traps for free because the employee said they were almost dead so this is helping so much because my family and i know nothing about these suckers

[@ladydeanna3775]

I did the same thing. I bought two back in February and they are doing well. I bought two more today and one of their soil is so dried out I’m soaking it in water now and I clipped all the dead heads off of them. I love my fly traps. The first two that I bought have been eating gnats like crazy the gnats came from my succulent soil lol.

[@fbiagentfrank]

I bought one of these at a garden center yesterday and I think they weren't watering them because they're in those containers.....but maybe they dumped a ton of water on them when they first came in because they are dry and dead but also rotten in areas lol. A whole mess. Thanks for the help!

[@kasieleow9608]

Rescued one this morning! Couldn't be happier I found one that had directions that said to water with distilled water and no fertilizer. And had it in peat moss. Was happy. But it was half dead. Got it 20 percent off. Because it was half dead.

[@Brooksforlife]

Imsge being the plant and on your dirt death bed being poisned by water and is all of a second your alive being fed bugs and distilled water. Good job man

[@michaelrehm]

Dude, you are doing EACTLY WHAT I DO, ---Re-plant, put out in the FULL SUNLIGHT, with Well- Water here, in Southern New Jersy, and the results are FANTASTIC! You need to see the Pictures of what I have , Now, for The Venus Fly traps, I Bought, AT WAL_MART, then did the re-Planting, like you did...

[@annwolvin9733]

well, i work in a market and tbh sometimes i dont even have the time to go to the bathroom so we simply dont care about the flowers..... not sure how is it in other countries but its like that in mine

[@allclades]

I completely understand not having the time to care for them properly. I'm sure it's a net positive for the species in the long run even of these individuals don't make it.

[@tlwest21]

I bought one from wally would a week ago. I wish I had researched on YT before because my dumb self out it in regular potting soil and in terracotta and on my screened in deck! I immediately changed all of that and got it repotted in pear moss and perlite and in a lot of sun. I hope I can save her!!!

[@allclades]

It will probably be fine. My very first flytrap I did the exact same thing.

[@relentlesseditz5607]

I rescued one, so I looked up how to pick out dead traps, and here I am!

[@Thruey]

i got 1 from home depot for christmas (which i asked for) it came somewhat healthy but was going into hibernation im pretty sure but now its dying and i see new ones that are growing out but they just die faster than new ones can grow. i water it about once a week sometimes 10 days and i give it as much sun as i can keeping it near windows but in texas it got really cold recently so that might've done something. idk if its a good idea but i actually put in the bathroom when i take hot showers for humidity that seemed to help but now its dying again idk

[@jacklegminercanada3866]

Thank you for speaking on the hazards of tap water. Lol.

[@Gamer-wf3jx]

i bought one today that looked deadish but there is still a little more life in it than the first one you opened in the beginning of the vid

[@Your_VR_dude]

I got a purple pitcher plant in medium condition I had to do a little trimming and then I gave it some rainwater and whenever the soil was dry still alive

[@nb3344]

We got 3 for $5 each and carried them to Russia a month ago! Just removed from the death tube. But we watered and put them in a window. They are about to bloom.

[@Darkblade0926]

Awesome video man! By the way, where'd you get those small pots?

[@allclades]

Amazon

[@Cheriesgardenvegplot]

Do you feed bugs and things to yours or do you leave them to catch their own lunch.

[@jcanter004]

What is the recommended dirt?

[@szanar8422]

Man I really can’t wait for my two Venus flytraps and my trumpet pitcher to wake up from dormancy. I missed seeing them so much that I went and rescued two little nepenthes they were $0.23 each because all the pitchers turned black, but I believe they can recover!! I’m doing my best to save them

[@MysteriaSdrassa]

personally, i plant mine in long fiber sphagnum moss, it has like 0 nitrogen or other minerals in it that can kill flytraps, it also holds water really well but drains good as well, which is perfect for flytraps that like super moist growing medium but not waterlogged like pitcher plants and honeydews prefer, just make sure your that if you use sphagnum moss that it doesn't have any added nitrogen or other fertilizers that will kill any carnivorous plant in no time at all

[@cieras5463]

Every time I give my plate water within 15 hours the plant drinks up all the water. From my experience it hard to let them sit in water , I be afraid they have too much water

[@ladydeanna3775]

It’s fine. My fly traps and sundews soak up so much water it’s crazy but they are all thriving. The sundew is greedy I swear I refilled its water bowl twice in one day but it keeps sprouting new leaves on a daily basis.

[@itsreally2296]

Just got two from Home Depot with some dead leaves too. Wish I thought of asking for a discount darn. Would double filtered Pur water work instead of distilled? Edit: Im waiting to get some soil mix but for the dead ones is it best to cut them off by the stem or just at the head ?

[@allclades]

The filtered water might be okay, it would be best to get a TDS meter and check your water. I'm not sure if it matters where you cut off the dead bits.

[@mrjaredlam1]

Pur water will not work. It does not remove the total dissolved solids. Zero water is the way to go if you are looking for these types of filtering systems

[@GloriaW888]

My Venus fly trap is no longer turning red and I don’t see any antennas inside so they no longer shut to eat. What do I do? 😩

[@andrescolintv]

What’s the mix you’re using for reporting?

[@allclades]

About 30-50 percent quarts sand and peat

[@italklife9583]

Hey I’m kind of new to this planting stuff. Can you use regular dirt on the Venus fly trap? I got mine from Walmart and found almost all black. I don’t have any access to other dirt at the moment. What’s the best option to keep them living until I get proper care for them?

[@allclades]

You can probably just keep the roots in pure distilled water for a few days until you can find some peat moss to put them in.

[@talkingweevil3172]

I went to a store (not Walmart) found a wilting one and the store owner said to just take it for free and try to give it life!😊

[@michaelrehm]

Hi Nature, I , again, did what you did, only, I used a BIG pot, with holes underneath, so the well water could get thru....They are doi Fantastic right now...---How, can I send you the pictures?

[@allclades]

My email address is in my profile I believe, I would love to see how they are doing.

[@michaelrehm]

@@allclades Right now, I had to bring them inside due to Fall. The temperature are too Cold outside, and now they are going dormant in my house; they are in some water, with as much sun as possible, but the traps are going black, which is normal, but not good for showing pictures; they will, however, get better when Spring arrives and I can move them outside again when the Temps warm to ABOVE 50 degrees during the night, and higher during the day, takes a week or 2 before they will be " Picture Perfect" again....

[@kelvinstewart7692]

Let us know how they get on

[@AKight_2019]

I bought one from Walmart and i had it real healthy but I let it dry out for two days . It’s still green but wilted. Will they be fine if I soak them with a cup of bottled water?

[@allclades]

Use distilled water and they can bounce back from a lot Good luck

[@swat007jp]

Update video ?

[@cassandracapobianco6867]

How did you get the manager to do that

[@allclades]

Just asked nicely

[@anshrx9]

I used tap water in its pot now the plant is wilting. Will repotting it in a different soil help?

[@PreciousBeDoingStuff]

Distilled water only

[@Hallie805]

How can you tell if there dead

[@Nativeflyers]

Wow

[@cassandraleexo]

Should i be pulling the black dead heads off my vft or just leave them?

[@allclades]

Up to you. You can pull the whole stem off and try to replant it. Sometimes they will sprout new plants.

[@jaymorgan8013]

I have no luck with these things!

[@guacamole2993]

I wanna be your friend if I can get free VFTs! Great vid!

[@ladydeanna3775]

The two that I bought today had a lot of dead heads but there also filled with baby heads so I suppose they will eventually thrive.

[@th3SyLvEsTeR]

As long as the rhizome is white, the plant will strive, I've got pretty much near death but I took it out the pot, the rhizome was white but the roots were black! I took off all the dead heads from the rhizome and repotted it temporarily until a new bigger pot came. When I repotted it a second time, the plant still looked the same but it grew new prestine lookin roots! So hopefully it'll make a comeback soon.

[@ladydeanna3775]

@@th3SyLvEsTeR one of the ones I just got is like a cluster of heads and one of them was clamped down on another head lol. I had to separate it. I think they are all too close together.

[@alanbaker2600]

You might be able to save them

[@fabbrice]

You should never have repotted which will cause shock and take a month or so to recover. What you should've done was just clip off the dead leaves and leave outside or near a window where they can get 6 or more hours of sun and give enough rain or distilled water

[@2891michaelk]

I wish you actually showed us how you cleaned and repot them.

[@LOLOMGYGBBQ]

Ayo can you help me? I repotted my plants and they started turning black and dying. Not to sure what I’m doing wrong

[@l.r.e.s4357]

Don’t use regular soil, they are bog plants and normal soil got to much minerals that will burn them.

[@LOLOMGYGBBQ]

@@l.r.e.s4357 thank you, I repotted them in some different stuff and it seems to be working out. New heads are growing now.

[@LOLOMGYGBBQ]

@@l.r.e.s4357 thanks very much for the advice. They seem to be a live I think. They grow but they mouths seem to die out before they open. More seem to pop up but they still turn dark.

[@gabbydube5757]

i just got one and i named it BOB!

[@groundingtolive1113]

No tap water but what about rain water?

[@allclades]

Rain water is great for them. The only thing to be careful of is if it runs off a roof make sure it's not picking up minerals from the roof.

[@jessicacalvo6989]

So I have zero traps and a tiny flower stalk in a plant that was given to me what can I do?

[@allclades]

Give it lots of light and keep it in distilled water. That's all you can do. Sometimes they bounce.back

[@TheKonga88]

Put a ventriloquist dummy next to the plant and the dummy will talk to the plant when you are not there and within a couple weeks, it will be very happy and healthy.🌵🤸🏼‍♀️

[@waifuulover]

So I cant use tap water do I use water from a bottle or rain water

[@allclades]

Rain water or distilled water is best. Some folks can use their tap water if the total disolved solids is less than 50 ppm. They sell cheap TDS meters on amazon for like 8 bucks of you want to check to see if your water is safe to use.

[@plantguy9]

Tap water and bottled water have too many minerals in it which ALL carnivorous plants are sensitive too. The minerals are added to add a little bit of taste to the water. Heard that distilled water is flat.

[@19wolfgang25]

whatever happened to them?

[@allclades]

Just now posted an update for you.

[@slimcatandme]

I need to get mine into a new pot

[@allclades]

Sometimes a good flush of distilled water will do wonders as well.

[@slimcatandme]

@@allclades thanks. I think it looks good I've got .16 sec video of it.eating I rescued it from WinCo grocery store, I'm hoping to get more. It's in a container with rain water. Good to know about distilled. It's outside in sunlight

[@Schutz_Hans]

I planted mine in a pot with carnivorous soil

[@TheKonga88]

But be careful because the carnivorous soil will eat your fingers 🥳🤡🦖🌵

[@brunoventina7619]

Why is this channel as dead as theese plants? This is some quality content if you ask me

[@allclades]

Lol... Thanks, it's dead because I dont take care of it the right way. Every once in a while I'll get on here and try to do all the stuff you're supposed to do for youtube, but in the long run I end up just posting stuff I think is interesting to me.

[@brunoventina7619]

@@allclades i suppose thats what bought me here to your channel, if you did what you did for money and not for passion i wouldn't have subscribed

[@testimusicali6445]

I'm so confused about the ""standing in water"" thing. Half of websites/videos i see say always sit in water. But the other half says don't do that. Does it have to do with something like where they come from or species type or something?

[@antwongary3588]

can you tell me why my venus fly traps are all green and they are a good size but won't eat any food and I have four of them that are all the same size all green no death looking and they won't eat at all? Can you tell me what I'm doing wrong?

[@weirdboyrox]

What kind of VFT do you have? Some VFT are really attractive to bugs, while some are not very attractive. Typical VFT are not very good at attracting bugs, but the ones are really good at catching bugs are like VFT "Titan", VFT "Bristle Tooth". Also, you won't get many insects indoor if you have them there. Edit: Some VFT have non-functional traps too.

[@braydentai-oj6gu]

Tap water 💀💀💀😊

[@braydentai-oj6gu]

Edited no smile

[@beatngu3094]

Lowe’s doesn’t take care of them either. Really sad. I just rescued 3

[@JawadItayem]

I just bought one today and I got no idea how to raise them.😢 may you please help me? Thx

[@ians3207]

I'm laughing because I'm being super careful when I move my plant (just got it) and you're just picking em up and throwing them down lol....If you see this comment....As I say, I got mine yesterday and 1 of the traps is starting to turn black, should I leave it until it reaches the end of the trap before cutting it off or the entire leaf as well ? Thanks :)

[@Kevin_Dyke]

Usually if the entire trap if fully black then you can pull it off if you wanted to you could propagate the leaf pulling for a new plant

[@allclades]

I've tried that it only works for me some of the time. But when it does it's cool because... Free plant.

[@weirdboyrox]

I would cut off only the black part since the other part of the leaf can still photosynthesize. That being said, if your VFT has only a few leaves then just wait until the entire leaf turn black. But if you have one that is growing a lot of leaves, then just cut off the black part of the leaves. Otherwise, if you wait until the entire leaf turned black you will have to be careful not to cut the good leaves in a densely packed VFT.