DuneCraft Windowsill Greenhouses - Venus Fly Trap

by DuneCraft

Product Features

• Planting mixture
• Natural gravel
• Natural stones
• Instructions and information sheet

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 9 x 4.5 x 6 inches ; 8.8 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000F6E52S
• Item model number: FF-0028
• Manufacturer recommended age: 4 years and up
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #38,747 in Toys & Games (See Top 100 in Toys & Games)
• Average Customer Review: 1.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Grow your own collection of feared and famous meat-eating plants. This kit features the infamous Venus Fly Trap. Watch these fascinating plants grow from harmless seeds into vicious bug-eating monsters. Make your own authentic bog with the included peat planting mix, blue Swamp Rocks, and a companionable Bog Buddy. With proper care, this rare and unusual collection of carnivorous plants will flourish for years in this specially designed terrarium. Safe for ages 3 and up.

Product Description

Grow your own collection of feared and famous meat eating plants. This kit features the infamous Venus Fly Trap. Watch these fascinating plants grow from harmless seeds into vicious bug-eating monsters. 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. Make your own authentic bog with the included peat plating mix, blue swamp rocks and companionable Bog Buddy. With proper care, this rare and unusual collection of carnivorous plants will flourish for years in the specially designed terrarium. Includes growing greenhouse, Venus Fly Trap seed, Blue Swamp Rocks, Bog Buddy, Planting mixture, instruction and information sheet.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

132 of 146 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars This should be illegal, November 14, 2006

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Quogue (LI, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: DuneCraft Windowsill Greenhouses - Venus Fly Trap (Toy)

As an award-winning Carnivorous Plant Grower involved in a number of societies, I need to tell everyone whose thinking about buying one of these overpriced Carnivorous Plant kits... DON'T!!
It's a rip-off, the plants are easy to obtain fully-grown and probably cheaper. Seed grown Carnivorous Plants take years to mature and they will not survive in a closed dome, undrained container like the one included. Seeds can be bought for One Dollar for a packet of around 10 seeds of a type from the International Carnivorous Plant Society.
Total scam-job!!
THIS SHOULD BE ILLEGAL!!

If you would like to get involved in the rewarding hobby of growing Carnivorous Plants I would suggest checking out the book section of Amazon for Carnivorous Plants and pick out an informative book about them and how to grow them. Good picks are Peter D'Amato's Savage Garden which is highly regarded as being the Carnivorous Plant grower's bible or a new book on the scene Barry Rice's Growing Carnivorous Plants.
Once you know the specific requirements to grow these plants, I would suggest ordering some plants from one of the many online nurseries which can easily be found by a Google search or maybe check-out your local garden store, nursery, flower shop or even Home Depot or Wal-Mart might even have some in stock.
The plants this kit touts as "rare" are actually quite easy to find and usually pretty cheap.

In closing this product should be reported to the Better Buisiness Bureau for deceptive advertising.

13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars There are better ways to grow Carnivorous Plants, July 18, 2010

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Nicole (New York) - See all my reviews

This review is from: DuneCraft Windowsill Greenhouses - Venus Fly Trap (Toy)

I have been growing carnivorous plants for more than ten years, I grow both native and topical plants. I have two outdoor bogs.

I can tell you this is probably the worst possible way to start the hobby of growing carnivorous plants. Growing these plants from seed takes knowledge and patience, a pitcher plant can take as much as five years to reach maturity. To think that a novice could buy this kit and be successful is wishful thinking at best.

Don't buy this kit ... it is a waste of your money.

I love growing carnivorous plants, and encourage people to try this very rewarding hobby, but this is NOT the way to go about it. There are many good nurseries that specialize in these amazing plants. Google carnivorous plants and they are sure to pop up.

These plants are not hard to grow, but they can not be treated like an average houseplant. Do a little research, find out what they need. Buy some plants that are established, and you will be well on your way to growing these amazing plants.

11 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Venus Fly Trap, March 8, 2009

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Robert Golden "Rob" (Nebraska) - See all my reviews
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= Durability:2.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:2.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: DuneCraft Windowsill Greenhouses - Venus Fly Trap (Toy)

The seeds took a very long time to sprout. They have finally almost two months later. We are in winter in Nebraska. I think a warmer season would make it more fun. Hopefully as the weather warms and our house is a little warmer the growth will speed up.