FlytrapCare Carnivorous Plant Forums

Hello there, growers! Happy hump day.

I have a questions I'd like your imput on based on your experience, plus some pictures.

A while ago I saw on a youtube video that it's a good idea to feed the traps on your plant before repotting it. Since you were likely to trigger the traps, might as well give them something to eat while at it. Made enough sense, so thats how I've done it.

However, about two weeks ago I got two new flytraps (couldnt help it, heh) at walmart and I didnt have any mealworms to feed them before repotting them, so I just repotted them without. It all went well.

I have noticed that those traps now look healthier than the previous 3 I got about a month ago which I did feed before repotting. Those 3 look a bit sick (I'm attributing it to transplant shock) but still with some new growth coming so I am confident they will spring back.

What do you think? Is feeding them before repotting them a good idea or rather could it be making the trap more stressed on top of being repotted?

These are the three traps I fed (Cleopatra II, Apollo, and Achilles II)
And these two are the ones I didnt feed (Athena, and Artemis)
It could also all just be that the two new ones were already healthier from the store.


Also, anybody has any idea what this thing is? Lol. It was planted in the same pot as one of the red plants when I received it. I just planted it again in the same pot with the same medium it was in (minus the big flytrap it was with) and its... Growing. But I have no idea what kind of plant is.

Keeping it in the same cage where I'm keeping the flytraps. I covered with some 40% shade cloth to protect them from our intense heat.
Family photo! Happy growing, everybody!

The plant is likely redirecting energy to the roots to increase water uptake to battle the transpiration that it is now experiencing from the repot. Now, rather than being digested, the bug is rotting, which is not good for the trap. Just give it as ideal of conditions as you can and it shouldn't have any long term problems.
The mystery plant is a type of fern, pull it.

As per usual Chef Dean is spot on, daft as it sounds it takes a lot of energy to close traps and digest food, so if you suddenly uproot it and change its environment, that too will stress the plant. So rather counter-intuitively they can get a worse set back.
And yep - pull the fern.
Cheers
Steve

ChefDean wrote: ↑Wed Jul 24, 2024 1:26 pm The plant is likely redirecting energy to the roots to increase water uptake to battle the transpiration that it is now experiencing from the repot. Now, rather than being digested, the bug is rotting, which is not good for the trap. Just give it as ideal of conditions as you can and it shouldn't have any long term problems.
The mystery plant is a type of fern, pull it.

Thank you very much for your imput! That makes a lot of sense. I wont feel my plants again before repotting and let these three spring back.

And aww, I was kinda hoping I had gottem some other carnivore plant seed in the tray. Ferns grow like crazy so Iwill pull it out.

evry weeek just feed all trapps with bugg and flytap will grow big and srong i get very bigg big traps with the fedding buggy to trapevery

@Frogjammer, Do you really need to feed AI images?

Love this ^^^^ response!

i dont need to feed ai images. i was talking about my b52 plant and my sawtooth pant nice jokek tho

lol, i love the surprise fern!