PlantSwap

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Welcome to c/PlantSwap @ Mander.xyz!

Here, plant enthusiasts worldwide can swap plants and accessories.

This is a work in progress, please don't mind the mess.

Items to Permitted Swap: Plants, crafts, seeds, and garden and plant accessories of all kinds.
Sales Posts: Limited sales posts allowed; no shop spam.
Gratitude: Use the review thread for thanks, no separate posts.

Pay attention to the weather. Make sure to prepare for cold or heat waves. Ice packs and hand warmer packets can be used when packaged appropriately.
Old Tupperware is very versatile and useful for shipping with wet paper towels.

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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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As the first post here's a sneak peak to one of the plants that I could potentially swap:

The biggest ones are currently about the size of a 50ml travel-size hand lotion

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

A couple of things to note is that these require:

(which can be controversial to get as some commercial extractions can destroy bogs, swamps, and wet grasslands).
low pH (aka acidic like pop/juice)

carnivorous plants tend to live in nutrient defficient environments so they mainly get their food via anything that falls prey to them and/or lots of sunlight/whatever light you can give it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I recently got a Venus flytrap and appreciate these tips.