Unexpected results of the global pandemic:

I simply can not find distilled water anywhere, meaning I'm slowly killing my carnivorous plants by using tap water.

I'm going to have to try and distill some water myself.

Update: I collected some water from the local "lake" when we went out to the park today. I figure if there's fish and other wildlife living in it, that water is better than stuff from the tap.

Next I need bigger pots, as a bunch of traps have overlapped each other.

Update: I bought a wide glass bowl for my Venus fly trap and a tall glass cylinder for my pitcher plant. I'm gonna try and "repot" them tomorrow morning.

I also got a little pot and two ¥100 plants for my kid, in the hopes she'll leave mine alone now.

Update: Managed to "repot" my carnivorous plants today. I still haven't found correct soil, so I just used the stuff in their original pots.

Turns out there were TWO Venus fly traps in that pot, which explains why they were so cramped.

Update: My Venus fly traps aren't doing so well. I've been worried about watering them too much, and think I've ended up letting them dry out. Gonna leave them covered for a while and hope they improve.

My pitcher plant seems to be doing OK though.

Update:

Welp. This is the extremely sorry state of my Venus fly traps.

This morning, in an attempt to save them, I uprooted them, removed all the dead leaves, then replanted them.

There were still a few shoots on each plant, and I'm hoping those survive.

I suspect I didn't bury their roots deep enough when I first repotted them, as the root ends were dry.

That, coupled with the day I left them uncovered and the soil dried out, most likely killed them.

I've mounded up the dirt, buried their roots deeper, and have covered them.

On the other hand, my pitcher plant seems to be doing really well.

The leaves are getting larger and splitting open to make funnels, and there are three new shoots — the lighter leaves towards the back.

The container is actually a bit too narrow for it now.