Make sure to use a pure water like distilled or rain water. The more sun you give them the healthier they will be. The Venus flytrap is native to North and South Carolina thus it is not a tropical plant and does not like to be kept in warm growing conditions all of the time.
up vote 20 down vote accepted. Soften. Other things that typically are added with salt will tend to toughen the beans, but it isn't the fault of the salt. For decades, chefs have circulated the oral tradition that adding salt hardens beans, but it's a myth.n short: salt replaces calcium and magnesium in the beans' skins that make them tougher. The result is that when beans are soaked in salt water the skin softens at the same rate as the bean interior and the beans do not blow out.
A simple side-by-side test can prove to you conclusively that salting beans (both the water used to soak them in and the water used to cook them) actually tenderizes the skins. It's got to do with magnesium and calcium, two ions found in the bean skins that help keep the structure of the beans' skin intact.When you soak the beans in salt water, sodium ions end up replacing some of the magnesium and calcium, effectively softening the skins.hether soaked overnight or not, the bean skins would always crack open during the cooking. Researching this, I read a lot of concerns about whether the skins are hard or soft, and solutions to deal with that issue.