Why Your Venus Flytrap Won't Close

hey guys welcome back to the channel in today's video we will be looking at reasons why your penis fat trap is not closing so let's start the video before we get started this channel is dedicated to the care and cultivation of cannabis plants just like this venus factor over here so if that is something that interests you please consider subscribing to the channel and don't forget to click on the notification button so YouTube actually tells you when we make one of our weekly videos so let's start looking at why this Venus flytrap may not be closing its traps anymore okay so right over here in front of the screen we have one of our tiny little venus flytraps and it is the last month of autumn here in australia and you may not know this some of you will some of you may not but venus flytraps got dormant and windsor and this is a big reason why they sometimes don't close their traps so in winter time in most places of the world winter time comes around and it gets quite cold and what happens is that venus flytraps go dormant this is a natural thing they do it every single winter and it's actually something that you should do with your plants unless you're a super-advanced girl and you want to experiment with a doorman seize our guy here as I said it's the last month of autumn he's going to sleep and when they're asleep obviously they're not going to be closing their traps very fast or at all actually and what we'll do a little bit later on in the video that we will take these traps and you'll actually see if there are still closing and we will see how much slower they actually are I suspect that they're a little bit slower than usual and that a couple of them might not close at all but you know I might be surprised another thing that people often forget is that venus flytraps are plants that need a lot of like I'm talking eight hours after XR not every single day and if you've got a plant recently from a store that doesn't give the plants the correct care that they need and then you take them when you put them back into very dark conditions they will make very long traps and at the end of the traps they may or may not have the actual trapping mechanism which is the mouth and obviously sometimes do block while this trap is so big but then you try to close it and it doesn't close and the reason why is that the plant has simply starved of energy it has no son not it is not getting enough energy to create the energy it needs to actually close so you have to make sure that you give in your Venus flytrap at least eight hours after red bright sunlight in the summer and spring time and even a little bit of autumn time but obviously as I said in winter time it's normal for them to go to sleep and dormant and you should give them their dormant seeds and during that time if they don't close it's actually not an issue at all another thing that people often forget is that these venus flytraps need the correct type of water as well the contact tap water unless obviously the tap water is very clean which not many people are actually able to tell unless you get a meter but you need to make sure that you're given in the right water if you're given him the wrong water they're dying and that's why the traps won't close so our Venus flytraps north cannabis plants are sadhya they actually all have rainwater that we collect in our system over here if you don't have rainwater it's also fine to use distilled water or reverse osmosis water this is our water system it comes from obviously from the roof the rainwater gutters all collect comes underground and out of this Julia you can see there's water right at the top kind of foggy as well that's fat and he has a hundred meters of rainwater and we have six of these buckets so we have 600 litres of rainwater power plants and as I said grow them outside in full sunlight 48 hours here we have another Venus flytrap response as I said he knew make sure you give them enough sunlight there are water but the other thing is that if they don't have the right soil they probably dying as well you see me and bear over here we both know that venus flytraps need to live in the correct soil neither have the soil which is oftentimes peat and sand or peat and perlite in a ratio of 1 is to 1 if you put your plants and just basic normal potting soil this will kill the plants and obviously the traps will not close so make sure you have them in the right soil even sphagnum Moss is perfectly fine for them and if you've got that down and you've got the water down and you have them in the correct temperatures and son nhut and there's no reason why they shouldn't be closing so if you've got those three things down the water the soil and the sunlight and you've got them done perfectly and you plants traps are still not closing and you've actually let your plans actually acclimate to that environment for about a month and I trap you still don't close I don't know why your trap won't close but it should be so if that's the case let me know in the comments but I really don't think that that's something that happens often the only other thing that I can think of if I trap is not closing very fast or at all is because you've actually overfed the plants if you have fed every single trap on your plant and you're constantly feeding a pond what happens is that your pond gets lazy and it actually does because it has so much energy it doesn't have to use that energy to make traps because obviously there's no point to make something if what you want to get something you already have you know I'm saying so yeah besides that I've made a list over here of other reasons why your carnivorous plants your venus fly traps traps are not closing so on this list we have all the other reasons why I can think of a joke venus flytraps is not close anymore so that's your job exactly I don't know why either it doesn't make any sense if you have the right soil there are water the right temperatures which comes with the writing on the sign that it come together and you got over feeding it and obviously you had the plant in that environment for like a month then as I say there should be no reason why the trap isn't closing so if that is an issue please let me know in the comments cuz this is something that harvest we have never burns before I think you were there as imbalance it should be closin Howard is here he's going to sleep you see all the traps are going black the traps getting super small there's one coming out there in the middle but as you can tell all the traps are super super tiny and they're much smaller than what they used to be then obviously happens normally when Norma C comes around as I've said if you still struggling with your Venus patch up and you've done all of those things definitely let me know because I would have no idea why your Venus Fly Trap doesn't close so anyway I'm smoking enough about the reasons why your Venus flytrap would not be closing it basically comes down to not having the adequate care for them so let's actually check if our venus fly traps traps are still closing fast or at the closing slower than usual so let's try okay so yeah we've got our gamespot trap that means you move a little bit there we go and we're gonna be using a fork to towards our traps because obviously be feeding something you have to use a fork person you know unless they're chopsticks I don't understand how you get into your mouth anyways so let's see how fast these traps are closing and now please guys bear man I'm not hurting the pond then actually meant to close like this but yes it because attract those are there being any food in it it weighs over energy but this point is going really well - very it's making growth in the middle of its dormancy period with suppose that's just such a strong card so let's see how fast or slow these tracks close very very slowly with that one let's try this trap down here piece of a probably should man so if you didn't know that I'm having is flat tops close there's three trigger hairs on each side of the mouth if you touch one twice within twenty seconds of each touch it will close or because one will trigger here on each side of the trap it will close within twenty seconds of each other so let's try this trap but you can tell these traps are parts slow right now generally the polls close super fast we may have seen in the intro video of this channel that the trap goes back instantly and these traps are really slow and I expect these traps to close even slower the colder gas in the closest wards its full dormancy and we have one more trap right over here so let's close this one there we go see how super super still better so it's not just your plan guys it's Matt right - and it's because our point they're going dormant so if it's winter time for you which is currently right now in the southern hemisphere so Australia southern Africa Brazil South America etc there's only two spots so if it's winter for you any point slowing down it's completely normal but if it's summer and you have it water brats oil give it enough sunlight and you've had it for like a month in those conditions and I still not closing fast and also that you're not really feeling and then there's some other comic issue that I already have never heard of but I'll be happy to help you so I just moved our Venus flytrap back outside put it next to its sibling over here and all of our other kind of response all outside and it's a beautiful day today it was so cold for the past like three days it was down to two degrees Celsius at night it was super super cold but the plants are fine with that that's what they get naturally in the wild anyway so yeah they have no issues with that oh and there's another thing that I don't think I've told you guys yet but I have now put wires in the middle of our fence yeah because the fence was that kind of like falling over previously so now when we close it I put the wire across here and tied up over there and it keeps it full standing upright so we don't have to worry about stakes just yet looks perfectly fine so long no more birds or racks or anything getting into our pants over here so if you guys find this short little video helpful please remember to leave a like and if you enjoy I'm learning about cannabis plants if you enjoy listening to me talk about the pons and you want to join us in our adventure of growing all of these plants Australia please feel free to subscribe to the channel and yeah if you guys want a more in-depth video of this a specific topic please let me know and if you guys have any other topics that you want me to talk about please also let me know I'll be super happy to address all of your topics that you want me to talk about and go over with you guys me and click over here we will see you next time bye you