o yes......i nearly forgot.....rain water is also very neutral as long as it is not the first rain of the season (dust in air)and not in a heavily industrial area with lots of air polution (acid rain)...JHB metropool, Witbank, Middelburg transvaal......all very badly poluted arear!!

The Animal wrote:

I've been thinking of getting me some plants again...

And was wondering, how many people here have carnivorous plants as well?

What do you have? How do you keep them?

TH

Do you know about the following?

California Carnivores

Terra Forums

World Environmental Organization

Dave's Garden

Kiwi Carnivores

Florida Carnivores Plant Society

Village Garden Web

Carnivorous Plants in the Tropics

International Carnivorous Plant Society


And, if you don't like these, or they're not enough, try Googling

carnivorous-plant forum OR message-board OR mailing-list

to get over 160,000 more hits. (Be sure to retain the caps. Copy and paste is best.)


I hope this helps. Best of luck.


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I had a couple of carnivorous plants, but unfortunately I neglected them and they died. I would like to start again sometime, because it's really a cool hobby!

I did some research on them and it's actually very easy to care for. Some basic rules as to not to touch them, keep them wet all the time, keep them out of the cold ect ect.

Hey I have a venus flytrap or had one it got mites and died but it wasent that hard caring for it just 3 flies a month and removing all the dead leaves and heads and if you want to water it put a dish with water on the bottom of the flower pot make sure its got the holes in the bottom and there should always be a 1cm water laing on the bottom the plant will suck it up as it needs it as for the mites well I don't know I realised them when it was too late but just go google mites there should be some info of getting rid of the thing.

I have heard that you can also give them after defrosting meat the 'bloody water' left in the bag. How true is that ??

....erm.....i can do a lot of things but most of them are not advisable!! i would sugest that you do not do that as you will be atracting VERY large numbers of vlies.....more that wat your plant needs and you should not spay any poisons in their proximity! IMO