I have flytraps growing outdoors at work but I currently live in a third floor apartment and I have two in a grow tent at home that I don't want to get infested with ants (which in turn start farming aphids) and constantly have to be treated with acephate.
So here's my plan. Take them out of the tent and put them in a hiberaculum of sorts. Starting in October, the two flytraps (one is red dragon, the other a low growing typical) will be put into a ten gallon tank lined with Reflectix insulation on three sides and lit by two 6500 K LED bulbs (each emitting 1400 lumens). They are currently at 14 hours of light a day (not far off from what the daylength is at the moment). The photoperiod will slowly be shifted to match the outdoor daylength using a digital timer. The time will be changed once a week until the photoperiod essentially matches outdoor daylength. Once the photoperiod and daylength are in sync, I'll basically keep altering the photoperiod on a weekly or bi-weekly basis to keep up with shortening daylength. Starting in November, I'll start putting ice packs in the tank occasionally at night and put something over the top of the tank to seal the cold air in. In December, I'll still use ice pack but will put them in the refrigerator once or twice a week. In January, they will start going into the refrigerator three times a week in addition to ice packs. In February, I'll go back to once or twice a week. In the middle of March, I'll just put them back in the tent. My husbandry routine for my CPs at present takes about 15 minutes every day(watering, feeding, refilling humidifers, pruning, whatever). This shouldn't add more than a few minutes to the routine and I'm curious to see what happens.
Any thoughts?
So here's my plan. Take them out of the tent and put them in a hiberaculum of sorts. Starting in October, the two flytraps (one is red dragon, the other a low growing typical) will be put into a ten gallon tank lined with Reflectix insulation on three sides and lit by two 6500 K LED bulbs (each emitting 1400 lumens). They are currently at 14 hours of light a day (not far off from what the daylength is at the moment). The photoperiod will slowly be shifted to match the outdoor daylength using a digital timer. The time will be changed once a week until the photoperiod essentially matches outdoor daylength. Once the photoperiod and daylength are in sync, I'll basically keep altering the photoperiod on a weekly or bi-weekly basis to keep up with shortening daylength. Starting in November, I'll start putting ice packs in the tank occasionally at night and put something over the top of the tank to seal the cold air in. In December, I'll still use ice pack but will put them in the refrigerator once or twice a week. In January, they will start going into the refrigerator three times a week in addition to ice packs. In February, I'll go back to once or twice a week. In the middle of March, I'll just put them back in the tent. My husbandry routine for my CPs at present takes about 15 minutes every day(watering, feeding, refilling humidifers, pruning, whatever). This shouldn't add more than a few minutes to the routine and I'm curious to see what happens.
Any thoughts?