Carnivorous Plants Nyone?

So I know there's peeps on here who grow more than just cannabis...does nyone do carnivorous? They eat bugs....'nuff said.


First 2 pics are of my carnivorous tube plants. I don't recall the species. And of course the bottom pic is of my medium red venus flytraps.

Here's the pic that justifies kind of what I would like to achieve at some point. Just need some Droseras and some other random sundews.

Very interesting stuff! I love carnivorous plants! Is that a young sarracenia in that second pic? so cool. I hope to have a few terrariums like this soon. If I may ask, do you know what genus of bromeliad that is in the final pic? It looks like Tillandsia, but that large one in the middle kinda looks like vriesea rauhii. If you have more pics, lease share.

Not yet but I do plant on getting some pitcher plants soon. Murder plants......fucking awesome.

Mineralz, what sort of medium are you using in that terrarium? I'd kinda like to set something similar up myself.

Organic Altruism said:

Mineralz, what sort of medium are you using in that terrarium? I'd kinda like to set something similar up myself.

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Most carnivorous plants like a somewhat acidic yet NUTRIENT DEFICIENT kind of medium. I use straight up sphagnum peat moss and wetten thoroughly. I'm starting a small tote with a wick system here soon so it can autowater. Basically you're trying to emulate a swamp. As long as there's consistent moisture and the soil drains/flushes well you should have no issues

Organic Altruism said:

Very interesting stuff! I love carnivorous plants! Is that a young sarracenia in that second pic? so cool. I hope to have a few terrariums like this soon. If I may ask, do you know what genus of bromeliad that is in the final pic? It looks like Tillandsia, but that large one in the middle kinda looks like vriesea rauhii. If you have more pics, lease share.

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I know that from left to right it goes --> small Dente flytrap, heliamphora minor(red tubes in the back), sundew (either spatulata or capensis) next to the heliamphora, Red Dragon venus flytrap in the middle foreground, another sundew next to the red dragon, small nepenthes pitchers on the log, and I cannot for the life of me remember the air plants, but i'm sure you're right on the bromeliad. I got a bunch of plants when I bought the live plants for my aquarium so there was a lot to go through.

Check out http://www.predatoryplants.com/default.asp and http://www.petflytrap.com/. There are a few others if you're looking for specific species, but I haven't dealt w these long. They like to go dormant for a few months also so it's a slow and steady process, but they are a beautiful sight.

Thanks so much for the reply and all the info. Looks like I have a whole new project this spring!

im completly DIEING to get a hold of the ones that are sticky and turn inside out slowly to eat the bugs! please help me identify so i can get a hold of one!

I've recently caught the bug for these brilliant plants (pun intended) and found if you stick to the subtropical varieties, D.capesis etc, you don't need a terrarium, mine are thriving just in my grow rooms with humidity of around 50% and I've even got some outside the grow room where the humidity is 30-40% and they're doing great.


The larger D.capensis in the collection were all divisions from a single plant a few months ago and are pretty much all flowering, I'm gonna have 1000's of seeds. The smaller D.capensis are albi's and were divided up this week from a single plant as were the D.aliciae, which were much trickier to divide and separate the leaves, so aren't recovering quite as quick.
The Pitcher plant with the big wide traps looked like the smaller one a few months ago.
And the tiny VFT's were sewn a couple of months ago and sprouted 1 month ago, they've actually grown quite a lot, you need a magnifying glass to see the 1st trap.

They need plenty of light and I've noticed they prefer a blue 4000k light to a redder 3500k, but the main reason mine are doing so well is their food. They're getting all the fungus gnat they can take......lol, I also fed the pitcher and VFT a couple of live meal worms each, but that's since I bought them months ago. I wont be feeding the pitcher plants again till the gnat problem had gone, I also noticed a housefly in one of the traps, so it's feeding itself at the moment like the drosera. The vft on the the hand can't catch FGnat, so I'll keep giving them a meal worm occasionally.

Had some flytraps once, kinda forgot about em. .thanks, now I gotta dig out the terrarium.

Yeah, actually just picked up 2 today. A venus fly trap and a sundew. Wondering if I need to take any precautions like quarantine before placing in my tent along with my cannabis plants?

ColaKoala13 said:

Yeah, actually just picked up 2 today. A venus fly trap and a sundew. Wondering if I need to take any precautions like quarantine before placing in my tent along with my cannabis plants?

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If your room is a totally bug free/sterile zone and you quarantine other plants, then yes, I would, my room is full of all sorts of bugs good and bad, so I'm fairly laid back about it. The ones I got had little black bugs in the soil, which I've not been able to identify, they could be beneficial, but the fact is, I don't know. I have now seen them in the soil of my cannabis plants, but I've not noticed any detrimental effects..........'yet'.

One point to consider.................DO NOT rely on these to eradicate any type of pest!.................They're good to have as a side interest, the sundews are good as a living fly paper, so you can identify any bugs that do land on there, but I think you'll find you end up having to feed the VFT, any pest that feeds on MJ is too small to trigger the trap mechanism of the VFT