Open Venus flytrap?
Hello!
Yesterday I bought a Venus flytrap from IKEA. The plants were very close together, so I quickly removed the soil and removed the less healthy ones, scattering only the larger ones in the same soil. When I bought them, almost all of the traps were open. When I replanted them, they were closed, even though I hadn't touched them. The next day, I noticed that some of the traps were slightly deformed, and they're still closed. How long will it take for them to reopen? There doesn't seem to be any "meat" inside them.
I'm worried they won't open again.
PS: The photo shows an open trap that doesn't close. I tried catching a fly, but it didn't work. 🙁
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Please be patient for a few days, you have an environment with fruit flies…
Fruit flies would not make sense, because this plant would have a more lush bite per fishing leaf.
I've been dpotan because they usually don't appear alone…
I'll give you both thumbs that your Venus flying trap will thrive well with your loving care
A fruit fly in nature would probably not even be enough to trigger the contact spikes in the leaf inside. A simple pea fly would be the fruit fly against almost a titanium…😎
(also from potential nutrients)
Once you have separated and stuffed these plants into completely different soil/nutrient soups, this is a massive environmental shock for the plant.
In addition, depending on the size, your secreted leaves will also have different levels of development in their age conditions.
Give the already open leaves a fly and then observe what happens with it.
Venus fly trap, sundew & Co. are highly qualified specialists who do not develop and open their fishing leaves to the optical ornament.
If I'm not mistaken, the fishing leaves of these are also sometimes working just once after an insect has been given. After that, the plant decomposes it itself and slowly forms a new leaf.
LG
Thank you, as I said, this is the same earth. I'll be patient and waiting. Should I put a dead fly in? There's only one open anyway that doesn't go.
Yes, try it carefully with a fresh and juicy bow tie on a tweezer. In this case, touch within a few seconds with the fly 2-3 of the sensor hands on the inside of the open sheet in the red region for triggering its catch mechanism.
Take a strong magnifying glass for this, because these fine catches are considerably heavier with the naked eye than the long-toothed frays at the edge of the leaf.
It is likely that the fishing sheet will gradually enter completely after its release, but this is also quite normal depending on the type of Venus Fly trap.