QUESTIONS

Originally Posted by arvin555

I sometimes try to blow them off. But I found manually removing them often will trigger the trap to close again. If you will be removing, use tweezers I guess. Have fun giving your VFT a dental cleaning

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Arvin

ive had that experience too..

well, if i see dead flies on traps i just leave them there. they somehow dissapear or slowly slip off the plant?

perhaps some birds come and eat it.. lol

[arvin555]

I have no idea how long it takes for VFT to have reddish color when exposed to sunlight, but my almost 1 month old regular VFTs still doesn't show red, but some others like big vigorous variety is showing red color already. Just be patient, I even have 3 month old VFT that still doesn't show red on traps.

As for water tray, occassionally either let it dry for 1 day then fill up or what I do is dump old water on tray then after that water the plant so extra water is collected on the tray. Now though rainy season so I just dump the water, next day already full again.

If you visit your plants everyday, you can dump water every 3 days, and mosquitos will not breed in them. The problem is if you have many many water trays to do this.

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Arvin

[kentosaurs]

Ok i have no problem with every 3 days.

3 months is a long long time oh well i'll just be patient and time will pass by and results will come out..at least i hope it will show some results.

Ken

[marvin1997]

Can you water VFT with water that you wash rice?

[arvin555]

Marvin, Why would you want to do that? Water used to wash rice is not that clean, plus usually that is tap water that you use. My suggestion don't scrimp on the type of water you use for your VFT, best is rainwater or Reverse Osmosis water.

Ken, I saw your OT post in the D. Prolifera post of David about your VFT leaf cutting. I'd like to say congratulations yes that is the start of your new VFTs, those stubs or nodules. But do be careful though, they are very delicate, I had 3 of those before and only 1 eventually became a grown VFT. Anyways keep up whatever you are doing (or not doing)

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Arvin

[Tarence]

Marvin.......i think you are thinking about the traditional method of fertilising `auntie` plants by pouring rice water over the plants ? Naw, i would keep rice water away from CPs.

[marvin1997]

my mom says that there are nutrients in the rice water and she uses filtered water

[Varhoon Vystra]

Depends where U keep them just like whay plantlover said.