Growing vfts as semi-aquatics

[Joseph Clemens]

To answer the question are they completely submerged.

Not continuously, then I would have to call it "Growing VFT aquatically", as it is they are just "Semi-aquatic" defined as the water table is generally kept at the soil surface -- most times I water, I water enough to submerge even the leaves, but this usually dries off in less than a week.

 

[Nflytrap]

Quote[/b] (ALLOSAURZ @ July 27 2004,1:02)]Well keeping the plants underwater over winter would be a good buffer against the cold as at minimum the plants would be no colder than 32*F unless all the water either froze or you had salt or some other mineral dissolved into the water to lower the freezing point. My VFTs spent a month submerged underwater while I was away at college and we had torrential down pours while my plants were outside and they seemed no worse for the wear. I wonder if VFT's that have been submerged in their natural habitats have ever caught fish?

Due to the fact that VFT's need pretty much distilled water, not likely. I know that on the East Coast of the US a few species of sunfish(Enneacanthus. gloriosus, E. obesus, E. chaetodon) sometimes live in blackwater streams with PH of less than 4, I doubt they occur alongside of Cps...or VFT's.