#terrariums

[bogleech]

MORE SUNDEW KITS AVAILABLE! A tiny carnivorous plant swamp that should grow for you even if you IGNORE IT ENTIRELY, by which I mean the following are some jars I have never touched (let alone opened) in over six months to a year:

This is the scale of the little baby sundews I will send you:

Here's how the sphagnum moss can grow depending on conditions:

Tinier little plants and liverworts will also come in your moss! Includes instructions in the box but here's some FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS:

Don't they ever need air?!

-No! Some plants can't handle but the processes of Photosynthesis and a symbiotic microbiome allow many plants to live in an airtight container as long as it holds any moisture.

Do I need to water these?

-No! If they're in a properly sealed clear container that never loses moisture, you will never have to water these. If you do need to add water for any reason though it HAS to be distilled, reverse osmosis water, or fresh rain water, not just filtered or purified water. Luckily you can buy distilled water by the gallon at any grocery store! This is the one rule you have to take to the letter; carnivorous plants grow in such a strict type of wetland, even water from most healthy natural ponds will kill them!

How often do they need to be fed?

-Technically never. As carnivorous plants they will grow bigger, faster and more colorful if you give them tiny prey, such as ants or fruit flies, and some people have success with crumbs of fish food, but be sure to remove any food that gets moldy. If you NEVER feed them, they will still grow anyway, just scrappier.

What about climate?

-Sundews are generally fine as long as they don't freeze solid or roast at over 100f for too long, but can still bounce back even from a little frost or a heat wave, basically more temperature-resistant than you probably are! What are their light requirements? -ANY light that plants can live on, including plant-friendly indoor LED lights! Sundews can make do just fine in fairly low to medium light, but also enjoy intense, full blast sunlight, which can even turn them reddish pink over time. As long as they aren't in total darkness, they should do alright! What about the mosses?? -Sphagnum moss grows right alongside sundews in the wild and enjoys all the same conditions!

What if it dies anyway?!

-Sometimes a sundew dies down naturally, especially after it produces a flower or under prolonged winter cold, but leave it be and you might eventually notice new growth. Here's one of mine that turned completely brown and rotten looking, then months later, every leaf sprouted a baby one:

[heartnosekid]

terrarium based pokemon keycaps | viince on ig

[retrogamingblog2]

Pokemon Terrarium Stickers made by TheNerdyAlchemist

[potato-cat-999]

this is getting out of hand 😭

[encryptedlunacy]

I LOVE the way this paludarium grows it's insane

[the-shrimp-that-fried-rice]

I got a new plant for my terrarium and the lil goobers are loving it

[aquabasedesign]

Bog terrarium 🌿

Planted with the following carnivorous plants:

Drosera slackii Hermanus

Drosera capensis alba

Pinguicula esseriana

Pinguicula 'Weser'

Utricularia sandersonii

Utricularia livida

[cupcakedex]

Edible Pokemon terrariums!

My fiance and I are getting married this summer, and for a nerdy touch, we’ve been buying Japanese gashapon figures for some nerdy terrarium centerpieces! But I wanted to make edible versions, and as part of our St. Jude fundraiser, donors could choose how we decorated! By the end of May, we had raised over $1000, and made three unique terrariums that all had an Eeveelution touch!

Poncho Eeveelution terrarium: rock candy, chocolate pudding, Oreo crumbs, shredded coconut, vanilla cake

Beach terrarium: rock candy, graham cracker crumbs, granola, blue Jello

Ghost terrarium: rock candy, Oreo crumbs, OMG chocolate clusters, candy bones, purple potato chips

[clover-seeds]

scaphosepalum breve spp.

they are a continuous bloomer for most of the year! they put out one or two flowers on the end of each bloom spike and then as one flower blooms and fades a new one forms.

mine was aborting it’s flowers until i gave her more ambient humidity with this open terrarium as well as some more natural light. five or so months since i repotted and she is thriving <3

[imahypnotist]

Hypnosis: The Brain's Terrarium

Have you ever kept a terrarium? It takes some research and discipline to create an ecosystem in a jar, a sealed world that keeps itself living and breathing on its own, a world that looks exactly how you want it to. There's a lot of work involved in building a terrarium, a lot of waiting for plants to grow after you place them, a lot of waiting for the trim marks to stop showing. A lot of waiting, but then eventually you have an environment in a jar that looks natural, like it could have grown there on its own.

But it didn't grow there on its own. You know that couldn't have grown in a jar, the landscape you painstakingly sculpted. And unlike a natural landscape, the terrarium will not keep itself up. Rain and sunlight are things you control. Now that the plants are in a jar, you have to provide weather and warmth. If you don't, the whole thing turns brown or molds over. Heck, even with the best upkeep any terrarium can mold over or suddenly die off. You can end up with insects and microbes you never intended to put in there, hiding in dirt you forgot to quarantine. Which means more surveying of the terrarium, maybe more opening it up for upkeep.

Of course, every time you open a terrarium, you change the delicate ecosystem inside, so if you're doing constant upkeep on a terrarium you're also constantly disturbing it. It can be easy to intrude so much that only regular intrusions could keep the thing going, keep all the plants in there alive. Did you let in some springtails? Well, those mite-sized creatures are tiny and you'll never get rid of them now, not without probably wrecking the whole environment. So now you've just got to live with springtails in your brain. I mean, your terrarium. Besides, it could have been your friend's brain, not your own.

Every cut, every trim, every new planting, every swipe of the tools leaves a mark. Sometimes the marks grow over. Sometimes they stay incredibly obvious and there's nothing you can do. I mean, if you're deeply dissatisfied with the terrarium, you can always take the molded up jar and throw it away. And if you're deeply dissatisfied with the brain you have after all the hypnosis that's been put into it, well...

Well now you can't do that, now can you? What do you do? What do you do with this terrarium brain that's full of everything you fought to keep from growing in it? What do you do with all the marks left behind that say "a hypnotist was here, doing hypnotic things." Do you just learn to live with it? Or do you go in and correct? Over and over, until it finally looks just right?

How can you tell? What do you do?

[hallucinogeniusvmjp]

Korok from Legend of Zelda terrarium fan art ✨🌿🍄☁️

Watch till the end!

Linktr.ee/hallucinogeniusvmjp

[bogleech]

This was a slime container from the toy aisle at a pharmacy years ago, now it's a little windowsill jungle of sphagnum moss :)

It could only be better if it weren't made of plastic but they wouldn't sell kids a glass jar of slime. Plastic isn't the best for stuff like this because light (especially sun) does slowly but surely deteriorate it.

[heartnosekid]

briarwitchcreations on ig

[chrisfoliage]

Oh how I miss my 20g moss terrarium build! Thinking about creating a new scape! 🥹

[potato-cat-999]

lavender-themed isopods. Big isopod surprise coming up soon

[encryptedlunacy]

The springtail cultures in my terrariums are so interesting to watch because in one terrarium you can see a wholesome example of the springtail community working together to break down a dead leaf and you get to see the decomposition cycle and how terrariums sustain themselves and then in another terrarium you're watching a cage fight that started exactly like the "she's touching me" argument in Lilo and Stitch with the whole neighbourhood stood in a circle to watch shit go down like where is the middle ground here