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Akai Ryu Red Dragon Venus Fly Trap Plant - Dionaea | 
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| Brand: Hirts: Carnivorous Plants
Category: Lawn & Patio
This item is no longer available
Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 74593
ASIN: B0012YEKAY
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| Features:
| • | You will receive: 1 Red Dragon Venus Fly Trap growing in a 3" pot. | | • | Carnivorous Plant | | • | Live plants are shipped on Monday and Tuesday. | | • | Home grown by Hirt's | | • | Research the growing conditions for this plant before purchasing! |
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Product Description
Nature provides this remarkable plant with "traps" to lure and capture it's food. The traps are covered inside by tiny hairs and a sticky sweet smelling substance attractive to insects. When an insect touches the trigger hair, the trap is activated and closes around it's victim. After digestion of it's meal (whick takes several days), the trap will open again for a new catch. PLANTING AND CARE: Keep moist at all times, rainwater or distilled water are preferred. Plants should not be fertilized (so therefore should be separated from your other plants). The insects it catches provide natural nourishment. Select a sunny window for your Venus Flytrap. In replanting only use sphagnum! Peat moss will do in a pinch. Put a plastic saucer underneath the plant to hold water and keep it's humidity proper but do not stand in a dish of water.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 2 more reviews...
 Flytrap July 17, 2008
James Eskew Jr. (Anderson, In)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I received my plant today and it is small but looks healthy after the shipping. I look forward to watching it grow!
Needs a terrarium -- learn from 1-star reviews June 25, 2008
Margaret P. (Boulder, CO USA)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
My plant looks pretty much like the left-most picture shown -- very cute, a mixture of some green and some dark red with some brick red. Unless your humidity rivals that of a bog, you will probably need a well sealed terrarium to grow this plant. It sounds to me like the 1-star and 2-star reviewers didn't use a terrarium, and their plant died of dehydration. Explicit planting instructions were provided, with details like "don't ever fertilize", don't plant in soil, and cautions about watering only with distilled water.
After reading other reviews of carnivorous swamp plants shipped from this company, I requested expedited shipping. This was worth the high cost, because even so the soil was dry when the plant arrived. My plant took no damage in transit, I immediately watered it well with distilled water, and my plant is doing fine in my terrarium.
Consider purchasing a "grow from seed" carnivorous plant terrarium to give you perfect growing environment and soil (or rather soil substitute). We did this by hapenstance for my daughter for Christmas: one person gave her a terrarium with venus fly trap seeds that didn't sprout, and another person gave her a venus fly trap from a local store that was (we figured out later) stressed from dehydration. That venus fly trap, after a bit of die-back from having being dehydrated, has thrived. I've just received this red venus fly trap, so I can't say for sure just now, but I expect it to suffer less die-back than the one from the local store, because it was only water-deprived for two days in transit instead of who-knows-how-long at the store.
--- At two weeks after arriving, three leaves died from the stress of transport (turned black, and I clipped them as instructed). My plant has signs of new growth and appears very happy. When watering, remember that this is a swamp plant. An "is it wet" device from a plant store will help you judge watering levels.
-- Four months out: my plant lost a few more leaves in the first two months. Since then, it has grown slowly and the color has deepened to burgundy on most of the plant. Since my other Venus Fly Trap (green) grew slowly as well these past few months, I suspect the slow growth is time-of-year related.
i will definitly buy again June 18, 2008
Jackie Randolph (Lynchburg, VA USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
plant arrived in less time than expected & was in fair condition. after some tlc, silica sand, sphagnum pete moss and distilled water, plant has grown, is eating bugs and doing just fine.
Akai Ryu Red Dragon Venus Fly Trap March 25, 2008
Luz H. Suplido
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I bought 2 plants and they arrived in fair condition. Most of the leaves are dry but the few remaining ones have survived with new leaves after a month. I think packing should be improved to preserve the quality of your plants.
Luz Suplido
 Venus Fly Trap Didn't Last Long January 17, 2008
Marc Parsont (Alexandria, VA USA)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
I usually have a green thumb, but I went through two of these plants, first and a replacement. They were small, but they were alive when I received them, so who knows. I'd buy local next time since there is a shop close by that sells them.
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