Tips On Growing Carnivorous Plants

Carnivorous plants are those that actually feed themselves not through photosynthesis but with something more meaty. This kind of plants helps to solve the insect problem, and at some occasions even adds tropical charm to your outdoors. How about some tips on growing carnivorous plants, right in your own garden? Sundew Known As Drosera

Growing Carnivorous Plants

There are many different carnivorous plants out there in the world but all of them share same characteristic eating habits. Usually, this kind of plants is found on the soil that is scarce in nutrients, that way they have adapted by trapping their prey and deriving the nutrients from what they consume. It is essential to learn more about the type of the carnivorous plants and their eating habits beforehand, so you can recreate these conditions in your garden. Water the carnivorous plants with purified water or let the rain water them. Even though the carnivorous plants take nutrients from insects they eat, they also have green leaves which allow them to get energy from photosynthesis, so that means the sunlight is essential for them. However, they have came up with a better solution for eating. There are five major ways of feeding that these plants can be distinguished by:

• Pitfall traps - trap prey in a rolled leaf that contains a pool of digestive enzymes or bacteria;
• Flypaper traps use a sticky mucilage;
• Snap traps utilize rapid leaf movements;
• Bladder traps suck in prey with a bladder that generates an internal vacuum;
• Lobster-pot traps force prey to move towards a digestive organ with inward-pointing hairs.

Dionaea Muscipula Known As Venus Flytrap The common characteristics of the area where these plants grow are bright sun, high humidity, and moist, acidic soil. However, the sunlight should not be direct or it might burn the leaves. It is also essential to check the chosen plants for hardiness zones, so that your plants would feel comfortable in your climate. If you live in a desert climate, grow carnivorous plants in a closed environment, like a greenhouse because this would provide them the needed humidity level. It is essential to buy the carnivorous plants from the nurseries as opposed to just collecting them from the wild, as most of the carnivorous plants are considered endangered species.