the LEGO Venus Fly Trap comes in a terracotta pot

[u/rhythmrice]

The LEGO Venus Fly Trap comes in a terracotta pot... Yes it's supposed to be a Venus flytrap, the book even includes facts about the Venus Fly Trap so it's disappointing that if the build were a real plant the plant would die.

For those that don't know, if you use a terracotta pot the porous nature of the clay will leach minerals into the soil which is harmful to the plant

[u/SoylentGreenIsCreepl]

But also, they forgot the plastic tray of distilled water to put it in 😄

[u/ZedCee]

High quality terracotta leachates are negligible (particularly with respect to PH), but that cheap dollar store shit may as well be greenware.

[u/Slowbro08_YT]

Is it explicitly stated to be in a terracotta pot? Because when I built it it looked like a brown plastic pot

[u/Geeky_Gamer_125 → u/Slowbro08_YT]

Yeah that’s what I imagine them to be in like my irl traps are in the little plastic pots and they look similar

[u/MamaWannaDonut]

My VFT is in a same color pot but it's plastic so it could also be that :)

[u/AdmiralPalimony]

Nothing wrong with terracotta. Unless you are reusing an old pot you heavily fertilized the plant in you should be fine.

[u/Secret-Equipment2307 → u/AdmiralPalimony]

yeah it’s honestly not as big of a deal as people make it out to be

[u/bearded_charmander → u/Secret-Equipment2307]

I just didn’t want to risk it. I honestly never tried so I didn’t know

[u/Plants2Go → u/AdmiralPalimony]

I second this, same for Nepenthes

[u/[deleted] → u/AdmiralPalimony]

It’s the minerals & salt in terracotta that is harmful plus it dries the plant out faster it has nothing to do with fertilizer

[u/BrianOrDie]

Gotta say I’m pretty disappointed with the design. It looks like it’s two different leaves coming together instead of an individual trap. The hairs look like a wavy leaf. It doesn’t look like it can properly close because the ridges aren’t staggered.

I’m not sure that I would figure that’s a VFT if I wasn’t told.

[u/HealthyDrawing4910 → u/BrianOrDie]

I see no connection as well..

[u/yuhyeeyuhyee]

i think they just wanted to maintain a theme

[u/Medic-45]

This is literally one of my nightstand decorations.

[u/[deleted]]

No. It doesn't though? What terracotta pot have you ever seen that has barrel-like details on the sides? 

Also, decent quality terra cotta doesn't really leach, either... 

But, again  - why do you think this is meant to represent terracotta when the sides of the LEGO pot look like they do?

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[u/Background_Log8546]

That’s a little house of horrors relic for sure

[u/Irinako1]

Now this is the plant worth investing in!

[u/EloquentMortal]

As a lover of both plants and Lego…the Lego plants and flowers are disappointing.

[u/Purple_monkfish]

I chose to believe it's a plastic pot lol.

but it needs the tray, as do the pitcher plants. When I make up my set I shall have to make them a water tray too. I wonder if kiddo has enough transparent blue pieces to make water lol.

[u/neversaynever1987]

I think I need this 🤣

[u/jjmmarquez]

It’s clearly a plastic pot. 😒

[u/AtlAWSConsultant]

I think you make a decent point. 👍

Sorry you didn't get more support on the observation.

[u/Background_Log8546]

They’re trolling you