Hi, I’m new to Carnivorous Plants💚 Are these ok like this? My 4 year old is very proud of himself for creating this little savage garden, and I really don’t want his plants to die. He already named them😅 Any tips are welcome!
You have some incompatible plants planted together. The nepenthes cannot live on the same water table and yearly temperature requirements as the flytraps and sarracenia. It’ll rot if kept as wet as they are and will die in the winter. Those flytraps and the sarr need full sun which makes the terrarium a bad choice. If that goes into the sun it’ll cook everything inside. Lastly, the flytraps and sarr need to go dormant which means lower temperatures as the days get shorter, so they’re best grown outdoors.
AgaveLover82
You will need a very strong grow light. You have these plants indoors behind plastic. These are outdoor plants so you need to provide 12+ hours of strong light. Then many of these will need dormancy. If you don’t provide dormancy they will not live longer than a few years. Also, you may want to provide a small fan so they don’t rot because they need to have constantly wet soil.
smalllpox
This has to be rage bait from the previous 5 posts like that
thesundewd
For the sarracenia and vft a terrarium isn’t great. The nepenthes could do ok in the terrarium for a while. I’d do a bog bowl for the vft and sarracenia, and either put it outside in the sun or under a grow light. And move the nepenthes into the middle of the terrarium for now until it starts to outgrow it, if you don’t want to totally ditch the idea. Later you could redo the terrarium with more appropriate species once you get the hang for general carnivorous plant care.
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You have some incompatible plants planted together. The nepenthes cannot live on the same water table and yearly temperature requirements as the flytraps and sarracenia. It’ll rot if kept as wet as they are and will die in the winter. Those flytraps and the sarr need full sun which makes the terrarium a bad choice. If that goes into the sun it’ll cook everything inside. Lastly, the flytraps and sarr need to go dormant which means lower temperatures as the days get shorter, so they’re best grown outdoors.
You will need a very strong grow light. You have these plants indoors behind plastic. These are outdoor plants so you need to provide 12+ hours of strong light. Then many of these will need dormancy. If you don’t provide dormancy they will not live longer than a few years. Also, you may want to provide a small fan so they don’t rot because they need to have constantly wet soil.
This has to be rage bait from the previous 5 posts like that
For the sarracenia and vft a terrarium isn’t great. The nepenthes could do ok in the terrarium for a while. I’d do a bog bowl for the vft and sarracenia, and either put it outside in the sun or under a grow light. And move the nepenthes into the middle of the terrarium for now until it starts to outgrow it, if you don’t want to totally ditch the idea. Later you could redo the terrarium with more appropriate species once you get the hang for general carnivorous plant care.