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Grow your own feared and famous meat eating plants. This terrarium features the infamous Venus Trap. The leaves of a Venus Fly Trap are covered with fine hairs. When an insect lands on the plant, the pressure on these hairs causes the jaw-like foliage to snap closed, trapping the insect inside.
The diabolical Cobra Plant. The unsuspecting insect crawls down the cylindrical stem and is unable to get out. The plant hairs all point down making an escape impossible. The hopeless insect is then slowly dissolved into plant food.
And finally the harmless looking Sundew Plant. It lures, captures, and digest insects using stalked mucilaginous glands covering their leaf surface. The insects are used to supplement the poor mineral nutrition that sundews are able to obtain from the soil they grow in.
The acrylic terrarium is 6 inches tall and 6 inches wide. Included in the kit are 3 live carnivorous plants, Venus Fly Trap (Dionaea), Sundew (Drosera), and Cobra Plant (Sarracenia). Plus we include the soil and instructions.
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34 of 34 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Doesn't look like the picture so far -- hopefully it will make it,
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This review is from: Carnivorous Terrarium with Live Plants
My son wanted Grow Your Own Carnivorous Creations Terrarium but after reading the horrible reviews and the advice that you buy plants that were already grown, I thought this would be a good alternative.
The terrarium comes empty with a zip lock bag of mulch and 3 dixie-cup containers with the live plants in them. Ordinarily, it would have been fun to plant those with my son but since the plants weren't looking too perky, I figured I had better get them planted as soon as possible. The instructions for planting were somewhat vague and I'm still not sure if I did it correctly -- time will tell. The plants aren't as big or as hearty looking as the picture -- hopefully they'll perk up in the next couple of days and start to thrive. A few things to note: 1. Only one plant came with a "stick" that told you what it was. 2. There were no "care instructions" included with the plants -- we are going to have to research and wing it. 3. The plants themselves were in this brownish mossy type material -- don't know what that was and if it was important to have all of it included as part of the planting. More info would have been nice. 4. You have to use "rainwater" or "distilled water" to water this so make sure you have some on hand... Overall, while the pictures make this looks great, right now ours bears very little resemblance to the pictures. Hopefully it will continue to grow and thrive. However, I really wish there had been better documentation. I'll update my review as we get a better handle on whether these guys survive! [NCJAR]
20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Carnivorous Terrarium with Live Plants,
By hesstowell (boston/georgia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Carnivorous Terrarium with Live Plants
Short answer: Best $30 I have spent in a long, long time. Who knew you could buy plants online and have them arrive in something other than seedling form?
Long answer: I originally wanted some plants to have around the house just to look at, because we all know how a few plants can really liven up the place! I looked at the usual- orchids, bonsai trees, bamboo, etc then I remembered as a kid digging up pitcher plants and putting them around our fish pond so I thought well that's kind of an exotic thing to have since they don't grow in Boston (got to be unique, you know!) Amazon ended up bringing me here, and I'll be upfront when I say I was extremely worried about this seller after reading so many "not really satisfied" costumer reviews- although their overall rating seemed to be decent. I decided I would go for it and if it was a big fail I'd know better next time. However, it was a pretty awesome experience. I opted for the terrarium because you get a little bit of everything, but I also purchased the Parrot Pitcher Plant - Sarracenia - Carnivorous - Hardy, an extra Spoonleaf Sundew Plant -Drosera spathulata- Carnivorous, and Magical Mood Moss Terrarium with Green Glass Coaster. The plants were shipped via USPS in a flat rate box. The extra sundew plant was enclosed in a plastic casing, but had spilled out (I don't blame the shipper for this because it was tucked nicely in the box seems like USPS probably got a little rough). The plants for the terrarium were tucked under packing peanuts and taped firmly into their holders (worked surprising well). The parrot pitcher arrived flawlessly- I was completely amazed at the quality. It was placed into an upside down dixie cup and taped into place, but there was moisture collected in the cup which is why I suspect it did so well. Also, I had a delivery date that was a week and some days after I placed my order which scared me because I didn't think they would make it in a box with no sunshine plus heat for more than a few days, but they arrived two days after I ordered them! (Pictures of how the plants arrived in the Customer upload section) The fly traps had a few dead heads as well as the pitchers, but I expected it since it has been scorching hot- the others were completely fine. If you live where it's really hot I would wait until it cools off since it gets so hot in delivery trucks. The soil looks like pure peat and comes in a ziplock bag (however it may have a mix of something else since these guys usually live in low nutrient and mineral bogs). It also comes with instructions that are pretty straight forward: fill container with peat, plant each plant, soak bog with rain water or distilled water, lots of light and partial sunshine, watch your bog grow! Remember if you give these guys bottled water it WILL kill them (also you can't boil water, just incase it crossed your mind.) After I trimmed the dead stalks, planted, and named them they have been doing great. I couldn't be happier with this purchase and the seller. I plan on purchasing some "boring" house plants from the same seller since I am not near a nursery. Also, not sure if it is worth mentioning but I went to their actual website ([...]). You check out through Amazon, but it seemed to me I would be charged shipping for EACH item whereas on their website it only increases a couple of dollars for each item; not entirely sure if this is true though since I didn't go through Amazon.
14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great!,
By RIRose (Providence, RI United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Carnivorous Terrarium with Live Plants
It has been about a month or so - and the plants are still alive!! I figure that is always a good sign!
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