Hi! My carnivore plant is dying. She is under bright indirect light, watering once a week (but soil is quite wet). She was repotted 2 weeks ago. What could be happening?
From my understanding, these need to be kept in nutrient poor medium, like pure sphagnum moss, and need to be constantly wet with rainwater or distilled water. Most keepers keep them sitting in a tray with water always available.
Uschisewpie
You are killing it in several different ways. Wrong substrate, wrong watering habits, wrong light requirements. Please, please, please research new plants you get to avoid this situation.
These are very specific plants. They are NOT indoor plants and need full outdoor blazing sun for hours to survive. Because they are native to bogs, they like constantly wet feet. Sit them in a bowl of rain, distilled, or RO water only. Spring, drinking, or tap water will quickly kill them. They also get all of their nutrients from critters in their traps. They must be planted in 100% sphagnum moss or another substrate that is completely devoid of nutrients for them to survive. They are also native to the Northeast US and need a winter dormancy where they lose all their paddles to survive. Feed them a mealworm once a month. Otherwise do not trigger the traps.
Available-Sun6124
What kind of soil did you use when you repotted it?
Akhil_Parack
I have planted mine in spagnam moss. Is it good
TrevorMcBoonish
They also usually can’t handle beeing kept indoor for too long as they need direct sunlight.
But yes you probably killed it with the new soil if it isn’t peat, sphagnum or a special carnivore mix.
Nutrients are deadly.
This is how I kept mine, in full sun for a few hours and then out of the sun for a few hours. They are tricky. They are from bayous so they need wet environments. I repotted it with new soil just regular chunky mix I used for all my plants. I had mine on some pebbles. Just keep the water level to touch just the bottom of the pot.
You also do not need to feed them bugs. After one trap eats a bug it dies to give the rest of the plant nutrients, if you have a big plant with many traps you can feed it to see how to works but it’s not required to keep them alive. Mine lasted a bit with lots of growth but I forgot it in the window with full sun for too long and it died
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Are you watering when the soil is wet?
She’s hangry.
From my understanding, these need to be kept in nutrient poor medium, like pure sphagnum moss, and need to be constantly wet with rainwater or distilled water. Most keepers keep them sitting in a tray with water always available.
You are killing it in several different ways. Wrong substrate, wrong watering habits, wrong light requirements. Please, please, please research new plants you get to avoid this situation.
These are very specific plants. They are NOT indoor plants and need full outdoor blazing sun for hours to survive. Because they are native to bogs, they like constantly wet feet. Sit them in a bowl of rain, distilled, or RO water only. Spring, drinking, or tap water will quickly kill them. They also get all of their nutrients from critters in their traps. They must be planted in 100% sphagnum moss or another substrate that is completely devoid of nutrients for them to survive. They are also native to the Northeast US and need a winter dormancy where they lose all their paddles to survive. Feed them a mealworm once a month. Otherwise do not trigger the traps.
What kind of soil did you use when you repotted it?
I have planted mine in spagnam moss. Is it good
They also usually can’t handle beeing kept indoor for too long as they need direct sunlight.
But yes you probably killed it with the new soil if it isn’t peat, sphagnum or a special carnivore mix.
Nutrients are deadly.
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This is how I kept mine, in full sun for a few hours and then out of the sun for a few hours. They are tricky. They are from bayous so they need wet environments. I repotted it with new soil just regular chunky mix I used for all my plants. I had mine on some pebbles. Just keep the water level to touch just the bottom of the pot.
You also do not need to feed them bugs. After one trap eats a bug it dies to give the rest of the plant nutrients, if you have a big plant with many traps you can feed it to see how to works but it’s not required to keep them alive. Mine lasted a bit with lots of growth but I forgot it in the window with full sun for too long and it died