Plant Convergence 4 is almost upon us! This international plant show is going to be the biggest, most dynamic one yet, with as many as 90 local and overseas merchants from Thailand, Ecuador, Indonesia, Taiwan, and Vietnam.
Plant Convergence isn’t just an event—it’s a movement that focuses on community, growth, and sustainable plant care.
You can find Venus flytraps, sundews, pitcher plants, and more carnivorous plants here, all grown in my little garden in Marikina. I also have pots, Maxsea fertilizer, and even some non-carnivorous plants available.
I ship nationwide, and I’ll be happy to help you start your carnivorous plant journey with my free guides. You can find them at the bottom of this page!
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The Sandbox Collective is thrilled to present the classic Broadway musical, “Little Shop of Horrors: A Bloodthirsty Musical Comedy,” featuring the most iconic Venus flytrap ever seen in media! This production, set to open on July 6 at the Globe Auditorium, Maybank Performing Arts Theater, tells the story of a shy florist who discovers a peculiar plant with an insatiable appetite for fame, fortune—and human blood.
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This 2024 production of “Little Shop of Horrors” promises to be a unique blend of horror and comedy with a green thumb for love. Directed by the Sandbox Collective’s managing artistic director, Toff de Venecia, with musical direction by Ejay Yatco, the show also celebrates The Sandbox Collective’s 10th anniversary.
With a memorable score and a talented Manila cast bringing this story to life, audiences will be treated to unforgettable music and electrifying performances.
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Propagating sundews is fairly easy through seeds, leaf cuttings, or root cuttings, depending on the sundew. This guide will cover how to propagate certain sundews based on my experience and some experiences from my customers.
This propagation guide covers the following:
• Propagating sundews from seeds
ㅤㅤ• Using a seed kit
ㅤㅤ• Harvesting and storing sundew seeds
ㅤㅤ• Seed germination
ㅤㅤ• Storing sundew seeds
• Propagating sundews from leaf cuttings and pullings
• Propagating sundews from root cuttings
• Propagating sundews through division
• Are you ready to grow sundews?
Growing sundews from seed is slow, like with most carnivorous plant seeds, but it’s still a rewarding experience. Depending on the kind of sundew, seeds can germinate between one and six weeks, depending on the viability of the seeds and the general growing conditions.
If you purchased a seed kit, just follow these steps to start growing your sundews:
If you have your own sundew seeds you’d like to sow, the rest of this guide will help you out.
There are certain sundews that are self-pollinating. This means their flowers, which grow in tall stalks above the plant, will produce seeds by themselves. Propagating sundews for these varieties is fairly easy because of this.
A fun fact is that sundews evolve to grow tall flower stalks because this way, pollinators won’t get caught in the sundew’s sticky and dewy leaves.
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Sundews (scientific name drosera) are beautiful carnivorous plants that use their sticky dew to trap and digest their prey. With more than a hundred varieties with varying degrees of difficulty available, it’s always best to look up a particular sundew online first to see if you can give it the care it needs.
This guide will talk about how to care for several basic and affordable sundews you can buy in the Philippines, listed below. I take care of sundews that are easier to grow and can be kept alongside Venus flytraps, pitcher plants (or nepenthes), Byblis, and any other carnivorous plant without any specific difference in care.
This grow guide covers all the details you need to care for sundews:
• Kinds of sundews
• Basic care
ㅤㅤ• Lighting requirements
ㅤㅤ• Watering sundews
ㅤㅤ• Growing medium
• Pot selection and repotting
• How to feed sundews
• Preventing diseases
This guide also has some affiliate links that might give me a small commission if you purchase the items they link to.
This has no additional cost to you whatsoever, as these are all items that I’ve bought and used myself. If you choose to buy any of these items through my links, thank you so much!
Sundews can look very different from each other, with some growing small and button-like while some grow huge. They have a wide variety of leaf shapes and sizes, and some from the petiolaris complex group even look like fireworks (like D. Paradoxa).
To celebrate Science Month, Fyukinta’s Flants is partnering with Monster Mama PH to bring carnivorous plants into your science classroom! We’ll be giving one lucky class a FREE set of live carnivorous plants with a grow light and care sheets so you can watch them grow and document your learnings as you take care of them.
You can find Venus flytraps, sundews, pitcher plants, and more carnivorous plants here, all grown in my little garden in Marikina. I also have pots, Maxsea fertilizer, and even some non-carnivorous plants available.
I ship nationwide, and I’ll be happy to help you start your carnivorous plant journey with my free guides. You can find them at the bottom of this page!
If you have any questions, feel free to ask in a comment! For more information about growing carnivorous plants for the first time, you can check my care guide.
You can also message me on Facebook or Instagram. I post plant content every day about learnings, experiments, and just the regular progress of the plants in my collection.
If you’re looking for supplies like grow lights, water trays, plant racks, or even the parts I used to make my own sprinkler system, check my affiliate shop to find them all on Shopee!
If you haven’t seen them yet, I have other guides on how to grow other carnivorous plants like Venus flytraps and Byblis in the Philippines. Check here for all my guides!
So you’ve decided to buy your first carnivorous plant! Plants are beautiful, and carnivorous plants aren’t just gorgeous—they can actually eat bugs in a wide variety of ways. You’ve likely seen them on social media, and these interesting bug-eating plants are just the kind of thing you want to try.
What would you need to prepare for your carnivorous plant, though? Let’s say you’ve read up on their needs, and you know the basics about their food, their water, and their media. Is there anything else you, the new plant parent, need to make sure they thrive?
That’s what we’re answering in this guide. After reading up on the requirements and nature of carnivorous plants, check this guide to find out how best to prepare for your plant before your carnivorous plant comes home.
We’ll cover each of these points in detail below:
• Find a grow space for your plant once it’s acclimated
• Collect rainwater
• Buy a TDS meter
• Prep a plastic water dish
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Pitcher plants, and carnivorous plants in general, are known to need sunlight to photosynthesize and grow, along with the bugs they catch for food—until N. pudica literally came to light.
However, a newly discovered species of pitcher plant challenges that need by adapting so that it doesn’t need sunlight quite the same way. This is Nepenthes pudica, a tropical pitcher plant in Indonesia that grows traps underground!
N. pudica, the underground pitcher plant
This new species was first found in North Kalimantan, an Indonesian province on the island of Borneo. Most pitcher plants grow their traps from the tips of green, photosynthesizing leaves while suspended in midair. However, N. Pudica grows underground shoots with small, white leaves devoid of chlorophyll. Its reddish pitchers are also much larger than the leaves they grow from.
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Propagating Venus flytraps is a great way to make sure you always have a spare of particular flytrap cultivar. It’s also a great way to prepare flytraps to sell or trade with other hobbyists!
In this guide, we talk about how to propagate Venus flytraps and what you need to make sure your propagations grow nice and healthy.
• Venus flytrap cultivars
• Propagating Venus flytraps
ㅤㅤ• Seeds
ㅤㅤ• Pullings
• Growing flytraps in the Philippines