Question
Looking brown
Hi I live in Sweden. We are just coming into the summer here now and the weather is getting warmer. I have a dionaea muscipule which I have had for a good few months now. It's been living indoors by the window standing in a dish which is always wet with distilled water. It has been growing well. As the weather has been getting warmer I have started putting it outside in the sun. And a few times I have forgotten it and it's stayed out over night. We are talking about a temp between maybe 50F 10C at night and like 77F 25C in the day, and now it is starting to look a bit brown. Is this too cold and now it is going to go into dormancy? I've brought in back inside now.
Thanks for any help. love the web sit.
AnswerHi Dave,
The brown color is actually quite normal. It's a natural response when a plant is suddenly exposed to sunlight. It's sort of like how humans get a tan when they go to the beach. Some leaf burn may occur on existing leaves of your flytrap, but that is unavoidable. Continue growing your plant in the sun. Eventually it will produce new growth that will be perfectly acclimated to sunlight. Clip off older leaves as they start turning black. Within a month, your plant will be completely acclimated to sunlight and all the older growth will have died back.
Your temperatures are also just fine. It's essentially the same temperatures that we experience at the nursery every spring. So you're doing a great job keeping your plant looking full and lush in Sweden.
Good growing!
Jacob Farin
