John.
you have no idea how amazingly lucky you are!
when it comes to growing VFT's and Sarracenia, you are blessed to live in the world's most perfect environment!
please dont even CONSIDER growing your plants indoors over the winter!!
when you have the prime environment right in your own backyard, trying to keep them indoors would be a sin!
those of us in the great white north would love to be able to keep our plants outdoors all winter..instead we have to devise eleborate schemes of putting them in the fridge:
http://www.petflytrap.com/cgi-bin....t=16597
or work hard to make serious over-mulched bogs for winter protection:
http://www.petflytrap.com/cgi-bin....=13895;
or even submersing them under water!
we MUST do these things, because we cant keep our plants outdoors in the winter..its far too cold.
we also cant keep our plants indoors on a windowsill or a terrarium all winter, because that is far too warm!
we have to devise a dormancy that mimics their natural winter environment..the winter environment of North Carolina..we must do this, or our plants will die.
We go crazy trying to keep our beloved plants alive every winter..its a major struggle!
VFT's REQUIRE a winter dormancy, a cool, but not freezing winter..keeping them in a warm indoor environment all winter is certain death..
they NEED a mild winter like that of....North Carolina!
You have no idea how much I would love to be able to simply keep my plants outside in their water trays 365 days a year.
Do you know what you have to do to keep VFTs happy and healty for decades?? all year long?
put them in a tray of water, keep the tray filled with distilled or rain water, stick them out where they will get as much direct sunlight as possible..
then simply leave them there..every day of the year for the rest of your life.
look at how many threads there are here about "how can I get my plant through winter dormancy?!"
you personally have to do..nothing!..to get your plant through winter dormancy..simply leave it where it is..outside.
*sigh*..please please please dont try to make your VFT an indoor plant!
that would a crime...
you have a blessed back yard, one that 99% of CP growers around the world would love to have...take advantage of it!
Scot