Carnivorous Plants: Looking for advice on getting a carnivorous plant, 0 by starsplitter7

starsplitter7 wrote:
In the spring the VFT are usually looking a bit ratty from their dormancy, but they come back gorgeous. My biggest problem is that it doesn't get cold enough here, so my plants go in and out of dormancy. They would do better with colder weather and stay dormant. We get down in the 20's and teens, but only for a few days, and it can be below freezing one night and 75 two day later. That's a major problem for the plants.

You can make cuttings of VFT, but I have never been successful. You peel leaves off the rhisome. I buy my seeds from the International Carnivorous Plant Society for $2 per package. But you have to be a member.
http://www.carnivorousplants.org/

It takes about five years or the plants to get to their size at the store.

Your plants would do best outside, and when things are really bad in the atrium. It isn't good to let them come out of dormancy. It is best to keep them below 40. But no freezing winds which dehydrates the plants. You can also put them in an unheated garage. They would need to be mulched where you live.

Here's some pictures from Sarracenia Northwest in Oregon. They have milder winters than you do, but I want you to see that snow and ice do not hurt these plants. This is from their caresheets:
http://cobraplant.com/index.php?main_page=page&id=8&zenid=6e...

This is the same Plant. Winter and summer.