Enter the mysterious realm of a true oddity-a carnivorous plant. The book that comes with this kit leads you on an absorbing journey from a contemplation of how the flytrap works without muscles or nerves to the care and feeding of the plant. Scientists as well as everyday gardeners are fascinated by this natural wonder, which-despite its primeval exoticism-is actually indigenous to the southern U.S. The kit contains Venus Flytrap seeds, mini planter, peat pellet, sand, sealable plastic bag for a terrarium effect, and the 32-page guidebook. The plant doesn’t actually grow as fast or as large as the most famous Venus Flytrap-“Audrey” in Little Shop of Horrors-but that’s good news for the pets in the family.
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Sara Phillips has penned past mini kits including, The Mini Spa Kit and The Ornamental Grass Kit. She lives in Wisconsin.
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Growing Venus Flytraps,
This review is from: Grow Your Own Venus Fly Trap: Just Add Flies! (Running Press Mini Kit) (Paperback)
Growing a Venus flytrap from seed is not an easy thing to do. This kit comes with only two seeds. The odds of one germinating and growing those two seeds to an actual plant are very small. Your better off buying a mature plant from California Carnivores or other reputable nursery. The book gives a little science of how the traps work on a flytrap and also tell you not to feed it burger wich is very bad for the plant. Also if you do buy this kit anyway use only rain water or distilled water to water the plant. Leaving tap water out for a few days like the instuctions say to do does nothing to remove the salt that is in tap water. Tap water will more then likely kill your plant.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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Very Skeptical,
By C Foster (Madison, VA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Grow Your Own Venus Fly Trap: Just Add Flies! (Running Press Mini Kit) (Paperback)
I just got my Mini Kit today and it is just a little bigger than a deck of cards. Seeds (2) look like flakes of dirt...can hardly see them. After soaking them 24 hrs you have to refridgerate them for 3 weeks! I was a little surprised by how long the process will be. Then somewhere around 6 weeks after that we should see growth.
This may actually work but I am very skeptical. I will update how everthing goes in about 3 months when I should see some progress. Hope this doesn't change the mind of someone from trying but I would suggest to buy the plant itself...it has to be more satisfying than this (especially for kids that aren't very patient...like mine).
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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Not a good idea for a mini-kit...,
By GoryDetails "gorydetails" (Nashua, NH USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Grow Your Own Venus Fly Trap: Just Add Flies! (Running Press Mini Kit) (Paperback)
I've bought a lot of the Running Press mini-kits of various types, and have found most of them quite entertaining, often surprisingly so for their small size (example: the fabulous "build your own Stonehenge" kit, which I love!). But in this case I was seriously disappointed.
I knew going in that it might be tricky to grow a flytrap from seed, but I'm pretty good with plants in general, but I thought that if I followed the instructions carefully I might get lucky - but no. Given the difficulty of sprouting flytrap seeds it does seem unfair to include so few of them, and the blurb on the outer package makes it all seem much easier than it actually is. Perhaps with a bit more of a caveat on the outside and a few more seeds on the inside, this might be a (pardon the expression) viable product. For now, I think I'll stick with the mini-kits that do not include seeds; it's too hard to ensure their condition inside a boxed kit that's treated like a book or toy instead of a living thing.
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