Carnivorous Plants: Messenger on Carnivorous plants?, 1 by tommyr2006

tommyr2006 wrote:
Here's the next report and photo. Although there seem to be more traps (albeit smaller) on the green messenger treated VFT the non messenger plant had larger and longer traps. Certainly the Messenger does not harm VFTs, that much we now know. As far as growth it seems to help a bit with producing more traps. I will end the experiment here.

Just for everyone's info a FINE MIST of Messenger was applied so as to stay on the leaves. Larger drops roll off and do no good. This is NOT fertilzer by the way. It's a Harpin protein that helps plants better resist diseases and make better uses of fertilzers. Naturally we don't give VFTs ferts so it doesn't apply. Next year I may try this on some Sarrs....

Hope this was informative.

Tom