FEED ME, SEYMOUR ! #cpclubthursday Welcome to CP Club Th...
So I often get asked about feeding CPs and I just want to firstly summarize a few things:
1. CPs can survive without feeding!
2. CPs rely mostly and heavily on photosynthesis for their main energy source, NOT their caught food! Over 70% of their “food” is from photosynthesis hence why light and water are so important to them
3. VFTs are misnamed as they principally eat ground-bound pray like ants 🐜 and NOT flies!
4. VFT have trigger hairs that need to be set off (see previous #cpclubthursday post) but that’s just the initial setting off the trap. They then need further movement or “massaging” to cause further construction and activate their digestive juices
5. Especially for VFTs, live prey is best.
6. Pet Shops often have live insects available in their live reptile 🦎 sections eg mealworms 🐛 and crickets 🦗
7. You can also give your CP dried food but it is not usually as nutritious (it’s like swallowing dried bread 🍞 without water)
In a further post today for #cpclubthursday , I will set out a dried CP food recipe I made up and my VPs love it even thoughthouh I only feed them as an occasionaloccisonal treat.
Just click on the link below 👇
https://greg.app/post/1l0n8c/feed-me-seymour-part-2-the-recipecpclubthursday-so-here-is-my-dried-cp-meal-recipe-that-i-use-as-a
Add your own feeding suggestions or useful information below 👇
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1. CPs can survive without feeding!
2. CPs rely mostly and heavily on photosynthesis for their main energy source, NOT their caught food! Over 70% of their “food” is from photosynthesis hence why light and water are so important to them
3. VFTs are misnamed as they principally eat ground-bound pray like ants 🐜 and NOT flies!
4. VFT have trigger hairs that need to be set off (see previous #cpclubthursday post) but that’s just the initial setting off the trap. They then need further movement or “massaging” to cause further construction and activate their digestive juices
5. Especially for VFTs, live prey is best.
6. Pet Shops often have live insects available in their live reptile 🦎 sections eg mealworms 🐛 and crickets 🦗
7. You can also give your CP dried food but it is not usually as nutritious (it’s like swallowing dried bread 🍞 without water)
In a further post today for #cpclubthursday , I will set out a dried CP food recipe I made up and my VPs love it even thoughthouh I only feed them as an occasionaloccisonal treat.
Just click on the link below 👇
https://greg.app/post/1l0n8c/feed-me-seymour-part-2-the-recipecpclubthursday-so-here-is-my-dried-cp-meal-recipe-that-i-use-as-a
Add your own feeding suggestions or useful information below 👇
#HappyPlants
#PlantsMakePeopleHappy
#PlantAddict
#PropagationStation
#GrowLights
#cpclubthursday
#theamigos #Seymour
#CarnivorousPlants
#CarnivorousClub
#VenusFlyTrap
#GregGang
#PLANTMAFIA
#Sarracenia
#PitcherPlant
#Sundew
#cephalotusclub
#RarePlant
3” pot with drainage
Last watered 2 years ago
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@Seymour I love Thursday’s and love Merida hope she doesn’t mind me calling her by first name . She’s nothing short from amazing . With all your wonderful information anyone could feel comfortable buying a carnivore plant . As always thanks for the CP show .
@Ninabeena Nina, Merida is a favorite of mine and I couldn’t resist her when I saw her as she was so freckly but in a bad way. She is thriving and is a naughty viner 😈 She has a habit of wrapping around my growlight cables or even other plants which I discover when I go to move them. You can read more about her here at #HelpMeNameMyPlant as she was an inspiration for the group.
https://greg.app/question/kldoh/whats-a-good-name-for-my-curly-redhead-with-freckles-new-nepenthescpclubthursdayhelpmenamemyplant-hi
Now I have another made viner, my Gothica
https://greg.app/question/kldoh/whats-a-good-name-for-my-curly-redhead-with-freckles-new-nepenthescpclubthursdayhelpmenamemyplant-hi
Now I have another made viner, my Gothica
