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Venus flytrap is a perennial herb. After the seeds have germinated, they will reach maturity after 4 to 5 years, and they will begin to bloom and bear fruit. With good care, the Venus flytrap can live for at least 20 to 30 years.
Planting requirements
1. Light: Swamp plants, the native environment has no shade from tall plants, and likes sunlight. When planting at home, the three seasons of spring, autumn, and winter can be full of sunshine. In the southern summer, it should be shaded by 50% or placed on the indoor sunny window sill. Or use a 40W lamp tube for artificial light cultivation at a distance of 750px from the plant, and the irradiation time is 12 hours/day.
2. Moisture: Try to use soft water such as pure water and rainwater. Use the basin immersion method (called the "waist water" method in Hong Kong and Taiwan) to create a small environment similar to the native land. The specific method is: place the Venus flytrap pot in a tray or glass jar, and pour water to a depth of 75 px , And hydrate regularly.
3. Humidity: greater than 50%, the native environment of the Venus flytrap is considered to be a swamp-type grassland, with relatively high humidity. If you can use a large water tray to make the waist water, the nearby humidity will be higher, and you can also use the topsoil of the basin. The upper layer of sphagnum moss also helps maintain air humidity.
4. Substrate: peat without added fertilizers, granular material (perlite, gravel, etc.) is 1:1 or pure sphagnum moss, the substrate must be replaced once a spring, it should be noted that Venus flytrap prefers sour soil . When potting, the bottom of the pot should be covered with broken tiles.
5. Temperature: The growth temperature is 15℃~35℃, the suitable temperature is 21~35℃. If you want to let it dormant in winter, it must be controlled at about 5℃ (0~8℃). But according to years of maintenance experience, not going through dormancy has no obvious effect on normal growth in the coming year.
6. Feeding: Please don't force them to eat too much, they will prey on their own. Feed arthropods (insects, spiders, etc.) on up to 2 leaves. Their digestive juices are difficult to digest meat that people eat daily, such as beef and chicken.
7. Fertilization: The roots of carnivorous plants are extremely salt-tolerant. Applying fertilizer directly into the substrate will cause plant death, and low-concentration liquid fertilizer should be sprayed on the foliage. If you use a commercially available fertilizer for foliage plants, you can apply it at 1/5 of the recommended concentration, and spray it every two weeks during the growing season.
Cultivation medium
1. Venus flytrap prefers the cultivation medium with good water retention and acidity. It can be cultivated directly using peat soil or sphagnum moss, that is, only a single cultivation medium can be used. However, sphagnum moss is more expensive and has a shorter service life, but it is cleaner than other cultivation media, so sphagnum moss is more suitable as a cultivation medium for leaf cuttings or seedlings. Large plants of Venus flytraps are more suitable for lower cost peat soil. Some peat soils have a finer texture. Therefore, using peat soils only may cause poor drainage and easy accumulation of water. We can add a small amount of pearlite or granular soil to peat soil, or mix peat soil and sand in a one-to-one manner. In fact, the Venus flytrap in the original place grows on sandy soil, and the cultivation medium using a mixture of sand and peat soil may be the best choice. Venus flytrap prefers acidic cultivation medium, so the choice of sand is mainly quartz sand, silica sand or river sand; sand containing calcium, such as coral sand or shell sand, should not be used.
2. The fresher the seed, the higher the germination rate
It is best to sow in spring and place it in a sealed and transparent container with sphagnum moss; the seeds are sown on the surface of sphagnum moss (remember not to be too dense). The humidity is subject to the sphagnum not dripping (meaning the maximum saturation of the sphagnum). Cover with plastic wrap, poke a few small eyes on the plastic wrap with a toothpick, and place it in a place where the light is strong but not direct sunlight. The better quality seeds will germinate in about a week. When the height or diameter of the plant is about 2 cm, it is transplanted into a common flowerpot, and it needs to be domesticated after transplanting.
Sowing step
1. Prepare the flowerpot for sowing: fill the substrate with the flowerpot and place it in a glass jar or basin with pure water left, so that the substrate absorbs water until the surface is wet, and then spray the surface with a spray bottle (mist spray) .
2. Sowing: Carefully open the seed packaging, spread the seeds evenly on the surface of the substrate, and cover with 0, 3 cm of culture soil.
3. Water spray: Use a spray bottle to wet the surface (mist spray) and spray carefully to prevent the seeds from being washed away.
4. Cultivation: Put the seeded flowerpot together with the glass jar or water basin on the inside of the window sill facing the sun. If it is a water basin, add a plastic cover with an opening at the top to moisturize. Pay attention to timely replenishment, usually about 10 days to germinate (20 degrees).
5. Adult seedlings: The seedlings can be transplanted when 2 to 3 true leaves are grown.
Seedling Management
Substrate preparation: Use clean sphagnum moss as the substrate, soak it for at least 24 hours before transplanting (boiled water is best, so that it can be disinfected), squeeze the sphagnum moss water (or spin-drying machine) during transplantation, and wait Planted.
Preparation of tissue cultured seedlings: Wash the medium on the tissue cultured seedlings with clean water (pay attention to the moisturizing of the plant during washing and transplantation, and prevent the plant leaves from wilting), and the tissue cultured seedlings shall not be soaked in chemicals.
Transplant: Cover the base of the plant with water moss (not too high, it is better to cover the root), and have a certain degree of firmness (pinch it with your fingers, it can sag and rebound afterwards), after transplanting, water it thoroughly Ding root water.