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To: Leaning Right
I'll flip the script. It is a plant. Grow it indoors. Make it a house plant. Sell it at a fabulous markup. Make it the perfect plant for giving at weddings, to be planted at the first house. In a few years we'll be trying to get rid of them.

I live where Venus fly traps grow as well as another carnivorous plant. They are very particular in their needs, but you can keep them as a house plant. I had one for several years with no problems.

39 posted on 01/19/2025 10:08:19 AM PST by fini
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To: fini
Oh, and I forgot about orchids. 60-70 years ago orchids were considered to be very rare and difficult to grow. Now you can buy them in grocery stores and people through them away after their blossoms fall.

After you know how to raise them and what to expect (some varieties don't blossom every year). Here is a hint for orchids. After you figure out their need for sunlight (or lack thereof) you can ignore them except for watering every week or so and some fertilizer several times a year.

My sister in law grows many varieties of orchids that each requires something a little different, but not by much. She now rotates her blossoming orchids into her house. She told me that it is common for when she get a new variety, it dies or almost dies while she tries to determine what it wants. It usually wants something a little different. She told me one type that was a challenge, She killed the first one and on a whim she changed the other one's location in under the grow lamp by 12 inches. It prospered and quickly gave off sympathetic offspring.

41 posted on 01/19/2025 10:21:33 AM PST by fini
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