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Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. When I was a child, I liked lizards, rats, and frogs as pets, and I also enjoyed the occasional Venus Flyt
by NoZebra120vClip 3y ago
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
When I was a child, I liked lizards, rats, and frogs as pets, and I also enjoyed the occasional Venus Flytrap from the nursery. I considered some pitcher plants recently, but I had to weigh their effectiveness against cockroaches, and the need to build a whole tropical environment with lights, heat and humidity.
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- zacharycohn 3y agoPitcher plants don't need a tropical environment! There are many that are even from Canada. Ours is doing great in an indoor Seattle environment just sitting on a windowsill that only gets an hour or two of direct sun per day.
- zukzuk 3y agoThat is very much not the environment sarracenia purpurea evolved in. I can't imagine it will survive very long. They need a lot of direct light, and they definitely need a winter dormancy period. They do not make great houseplants, at least not for more than a few weeks or months. Tropical pitcher plants (Nepenthes) do make decent houseplants, although they struggle through the dry indoor Canadian winters here. They do seem to capture a lot of the fungus gnats I've been fighting with lately (I can see dozens and dozens in each pitcher), but not nearly enough to make a noticeable difference.
- zacharycohn 3y agoAccording to Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarracenia_purpurea https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarracenia_purpurea), sarracenia purpurea are from Canada and the north-half of the east coast of the United States.
- joecool1029 3y agoI've spotted them now numerous times around New Jersey and the first time I ever noticed one was on vacation in Newfoundland, I spotted it in bogland leading up to a landlocked fjord near gros morne (western newfoundland). I just never remembered seeing a flower like that facing the ground, so found it interesting and shot a picture and ID'd it later on. So yeah, they absolutely grow wild but aren't an extremely prolific plant, best places to see them are usually near bogs and ponds.
- thebruce87m 3y agoMy Sarracenia thrives on my windowsill in Scotland. It has grown a lovely flower two years in a row.
- mst 3y agoBeing in NW England this seems a promising endorsement of surviving the levels of sunlight we get down south.
- thebruce87m 3y agoI’m sure you’ll be fine. Both the Sarracenia and Venus Fly Trap I own have lasted years and flowered every year, although with the VFT you have to cut off the flowers or they use up too much energy. I put the VFT outside once for it to snack and it ate a slug. Would have loved to see the look on the slugs face when the plant bit back. Mine even survive on tap water which goes against advice, but I guess Scotlands tap water is different from most places. Just keep them in an inch of water the whole time, easiest plants ever.
- Loughla 3y agoI'm pretty sure there are pitcher plants in my woods in the Midwest US. I can't imagine they need tropical environs.
- Order 3y agoLove this Groucho Marx quote - just read it recently in Consciousness and the Brain (Dehaene)