Wow thanks for all your help! Great helpful people in here.
This question also applied to 3 venus fly traps I bought from the local walmart.
I asked everyone when they got the plants in, got no answers (geez, cheap prices, but
horrible ways of taking care of the plants) because I wanted to see if they were dormant yet or not. (
At one point a worker there told me her manger wouldn't let her give distilled water to the plants because it was too expensive!!!!! I asked her, "why can't you move it to the sunlight"? and she said, "my manager doesn't agree with the visual establishment of that". I said "but they'll all die!!" and she said, "I know, and we're going to lose all the plants, I keep telling my boss that, but I guess we'll just lose them, and get a new shipment, or just stop carrying them in general)
I took the plant home but had sudden cold weather for an entire week. At first the plant looked healthy despite being at Walmart, but I think the sunlight I gave it kind of "fried" it, either that, or it entered dormancy when the freak cold week hit the plants (they were outside 24/7).
I hope my plant will start up again, what a freak week it went through: from dark, dry walmart, to bright sunny backyard, and too-chilly nights.
talk about roller coaster.
the leaves and traps all bent downward (as if avoiding the sun, OR, trying to huddle on the ground because it was too cold and dormant)
I have no digital camera, but I hope you know what I'm talking about.
How does a plant look when it has been "Fried" from too much sun? I kept a watering tray full with distilled water ALWAYS, and a venus fly trap I bought online somewhere else was doing completely fine all this time, which had confused me.
And, how does a plant look when it's dormant?
If you can throw general observations, that's fine. But judging from my description, would you guess my plant to be fried or dormant?
(Not too green, almost pale and sickly looking, leaves look almost leathery, all the petioles bent down to hug the earth...)
thanks!