Bought a terrarium container. Gravel, charcoal and sphagnum moss inside. Is this suitable for my venus fly trap?
I’ve read that they don’t do well in enclosures like this. If not are there plants that thrive better in them?
by Thisisaghosttown
Carnivorous Plants
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No. You could get some tropical drosera.
They are from North Carolina, not a sweat locker
Where did you find this terrarium?
VFTs hate terrariums. They need a good airflow and low humidity in the air. If you don’t give them that and put them inside a terrarium, they will die of root rot within a couple of weeks.
How do they catch if enclosed? I might use that for a jewel orchid or small growing variety of maidenhair fern. Or, semi aquatic plants like gotu kola could be fun.
Most people just grow them in pots kept in standing water.
They don’t require high humidity (they can tolerate as low as ~10% relative humdity), but they do want about as much light as they can get. With proper lighting (ideally, direct sunlight) on a terrarium like that, you’re likely to steam-bake the vft, since the glass will trap a lot of the heat.
Vfts generally grow low to the ground, in very damp conditions. As water evaporates from the soil, it raises the local humidity, so even in an extremely dry environment where the relative humidity can dip into the single-digits, the humidity at plant level can be significantly higher.
There is fly in flytrap