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Best place to buy a venus fly trap?

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Can anyone recommend an honest place online to get a healthy flytrap?
 
SandRgeckos.

Steve used to produce quite a few. I can't recall if that's the correct name of their company but they are/were active over at geckoforums. If that's not the correct name ask Marcia if she has contact info for Steve and Rose. I'm sure she has it.
 
Steve, have you checked places like Walmart, Kmart etc. Seems to me that I see them around town every so often.
 
kmurphy said:
Steve, have you checked places like Walmart, Kmart etc. Seems to me that I see them around town every so often.
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Yeah. Even tried Lowes and Home Depot. Nothing.
 
carnivorousplants.org has seeds. It's a 30 dollar membership to get access to their seed bank but after that you get seeds packs for 3-6 dollars.

My membership expired but while I had it there were always plenty of droseras, sarracenias, and venus flytraps. Occasionally they'd have pinguicula and nepenthes available. They are wonderful and I've had a lot of seeds grow into beautiful plants from them.

They also have great forums and guides for growing carnivorous plants.
 
If you have a wholesale nursery lisc. and can meet the minimum order requirements (144 I think), plus shipping,
the company which produces the most Venus Fly Traps in the USA is Agristarts,
I have found that they thrive best when planted in true composted peat moss; not the dollar a bag stuff from the discount garden center labeled peat, but rather the good stuff. You may need to do a lot of searching of grower suppliers to find a good brand. I used to use European Peat for growing most carnivorous plants but with the rising costs of petroleum/shipping it is no longer cost effective.
davesgarden.com has a lot of good solid useful information for gardeners, from gardeners, the $5.00/yrly membership tends to weed out a lot of the rif-raf one may encounter on gardenweb.com.
 
Barry Rice is indeed very knowledgeable. I would also recommend Peter D'Amato's "Savage Garden" book for info.

I've purchased many different plants from Sarracenia Northwest (www. cobraplant. com) over the years and have never been disappointed.

Here's an old photo of one of the plants I originally purchased from them.
 

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O good grief! I just saw that Steve's original post was in 2007 - now I just feel like a doofus :)
 
Connie and I are actually talking about trying out hand at making some small bogs for the purpose of growing insectivorous plants. We're thinking about sinking small plastic children's pools into the ground with some drainage holes drilled into the sides. I've read where some people recommend an inside and outside pool with a hole in the bottom of the inside pool, creating a sort of moat around the inner pool. Not sure that would work here, as I would hate to be promoting healthy populations of mosquitoes. So open water will be a no-no.

We will have to use bottled distilled water if the rains aren't frequent enough, as the well water we have here is heavily mineralized. We do have a small water distiller for drinking water, but I don't think it could keep up with the volume needed for both our needs and the plants' needs.

So I'm thinking I don't want to sink a lot of money into the plants, as there is a pretty good chance that our fumbling first steps in this will probably kill them off. Plus if Connie finds a baby green anole killed by any of them, then the plants will be history.

Anyone know how well venus flytraps grow from seeds? I see quite a few people selling seed packets for them.
 
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