Basic care tips
Water: rainwater, distilled, or reverse-osmosis water
How to water: bottom/tray method (add water in the saucer of the pot rather than top-water)
Soil mixture: peat + quartz sand or peat + perlite
Feeding: not required. But these plants loves fruit flies anyway 🙂
Grows best in: high-moisture environments, droseras grow well also under artificial lights with less humidity
Dormancy: No dormancy required
 For general information common for all Carnivorous Plants, including Flytraps, please first read the Carnivorous plants care guide (general information)
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Heliamphoras are probably my second favourite plants after Cephalotus.. ok, and pinguiculas. Over the years, i have tried to keep them ujnder artificial light outside of a “terrarium” box, and also inside and while they grew fine, it was not until i placed 1 plant that I accidentally split in 2 while planting into a proper paludarium environment (humid and warm) that they started literally exploding and producing sooo many pitchers. They really love warm and high humidity conditions, apparently, and I love spraying them daily when i pass by to check my paludarium out. (I have a post on the blog especially about the build of the paludarium; you can check it out if you’re interested).
It’s a bit tricky to keep Heliamphora alive (for me, at least) if it splits from the main plant, even if there are a but of roots, so the best choice is to keep the baby plant in the same exact conditions as the mother plant. So, in case you get a heliamphora from me, do know that it has lived in high-humidity and warm conditions, and try to keep it in the same conditions and gradually reduce the humidity over the next couple of weeks.