Growing under an Aerogarden LED. You can see remains from its latest victims left behind in some traps.

Growing a VFT is easy but finicky. They only need distilled water to survive but if you feed them tap water they'll die. They require a lot of light and can't easily be kept indoors without supplemental light. This one almost died early on- I think I actually moved the light too close! But it's a survivor and sprouts new traps every week; I count 30+ right now!

what a fine spiky boi

Every now and again I'm able to book these at work and they sell like crazy. Minds are always blown with I post a sign regarding their origin (the Carolinas), as most people, including myself, assume they're from tropical rainforests or something. Such a cool plant.

I still think it’s surprising that these are native to the Carolinas.

We killed one a couple years back, but our son wanted a new one, and this time we ordered some purified water for it, and between that and natural rain, it seems to be doing much better!

Seriously you're growing this shit?? Isn't it dangerous to keep it around

I just got a Nepenthes. Do you feed your flytraps, fertilize, both? It looks like it's thriving