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Indoor Pitcher Plants Anonymous
Hey /an/, I looking into keeping a North American pitcher plant indoors. Has anyone here tried something similar? I'm wondering if you can buy food for them, or if I have to let flies roam my house. ^^;
>> Anonymous
Generally you have to keep them in a temperature and moisture controlled terrarium.

you can feed them anything from pet store crickets to hamburger.

More trouble than they are worth.
>> Anonymous
You don't have to "feed" them, as it is not an absolute requirement to growing healthy pitcher plants. As long as you can keep them at the proper temps, with enough light and in the proper soil, you should be able to grow healthy pitcher plants indoors. Just remember these are seasonal plants, unlike their tropical cousins, and will need a cooling period in winter. Just put the root balls in your fridge for the winter, before replanting them again in the spring. (The same goes for venus fly traps. Too many people thing they are dead and throw them out, when they are merely going into dormancy for the winter.)
>> Anonymous
You just need a tall terrarium, peat moss mixed with some river sand for drainage, distilled water, a glass lid, a fluorescent grow light. A heat source to keep the air humid helps as well. You can fertilize them with fish emulsion, buy crickets from the pet store, or just buy a fruit fly culture and put it in the tank.

Carnivorous plants are extremely easy to grow in terrariums. The only real trouble is that North American species require a winter dormancy or they'll expend their energy and die, and during dormancy they're extremely susceptible to fungus. Especially if you live somewhere like California or Texas and have to trigger it artificially by putting them in the fridge.
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