Whether your Venus flytrap needs feeding at all, which live and dried foods work, how big a meal should be, how to get a trap to digest dead food, how often to feed, what to avoid, and why a trap may turn black after a meal.
Why Venus flytraps go dormant, how cold and how long their winter rest should be, how to water and light a dormant plant, and how to tell a sleeping flytrap from a dying one.
A beginner’s guide to Venus flytrap care, indoors or outdoors: light, pure water and the tray method, peat and sand mixes, pots, temperature, a short note on dormancy, feeding, flowers, repotting, and black traps.
Hydnophytum and Myrmecodia grow on trees in the wild, and they can be grown on cork or wood at home. Here is what botanical papers, botanic gardens and specialist nurseries say about mounting them, and where they disagree.
A detailed watering guide for Hydnophytum and Myrmecodia ant plants: how to tell when the mix is ready, how to water around the tuber, and how pots, mounts and winter change the routine.
A species-by-species buyer’s guide to the ant plants most often sold, from Hydnophytum formicarum to Myrmecodia beccarii, with tips on telling the two genera apart.
How to read the swollen tuber of Hydnophytum and Myrmecodia, from normal holes, chambers and roots to soft rot, shriveling and cracks, with what each source says to do.
Ant plants such as Hydnophytum and Myrmecodia grow normal, chambered tubers without ants, so here is what the ants do in the wild and why your plant does not need them.
A step-by-step guide to growing Hydnophytum and Myrmecodia from fresh ant plant seeds, from cleaning the berries to the first hollow chamber inside the young tuber.