- Thu Feb 18, 2021 12:48 pm
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Ran out of pots... the rest are in the only pots I had, and more pots for them should be arriving Friday or next monday
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Panman wrote:I didn't expect them to grow this big this fastFrom what I've seen based on plants around the country and world, our plants typically store a lot more below ground here and look much smaller than they actually are. Once they are sent to a new climate that is much more sub-tropical with warm nights and high humidity, such as anywhere in the southeast or the eastern US, they typically quickly grow to a very large size!
Panman wrote:so what do you think should be the next pot upgrade option? I don't have enough room to pot them all in their own 3" pot.What is your long-term plan for them? You might get one big pot and stick them all in it to get a nice carpet of traps. Or, if you want to grow them out to give away or sell, you could choose the largest ones and repot them into however many larger pots. Then once one finds a new home, upgrade the next largest one to the larger pots that you have space for.
Panman wrote: ↑Tue Mar 09, 2021 3:37 pmI didn't expect them to grow this big this fast so what do you think should be the next pot upgrade option? I don't have enough room to pot them all in their own 3" pot.The problem is that any solution requires more room. If you did move them to 3" pots, that would be 18 pots per 1020 tray, so just over 3 trays to hold them all. If you wanted to keep them in plug trays, you could do some deep ones like these, but that will require 2-4 trays, too.
Supercazzola wrote:Matt, will you offer this again ?Possibly. Leah puts them in stock as she has time to fill them. We're getting pretty darn busy now, so she might not offer them again until this fall or winter. But if you shoot her an email at sales@flytrapcare.com and mention you're a forum member, she might be able and willing to offer some just to you via a private order. We try to take care of our FTC forum members and regular FTS customers
Matt wrote: ↑Tue Mar 09, 2021 4:09 pm What is your long-term plan for them? You might get one big pot and stick them all in it to get a nice carpet of traps. Or, if you want to grow them out to give away or sell, you could choose the largest ones and repot them into however many larger pots. Then once one finds a new home, upgrade the next largest one to the larger pots that you have space for.Well, I was only planning on getting 25 so my plans went out the window! Seriously though, having a nice big pot with a carpet of traps sounds like a great idea. I also like your space management plan. That makes lots of sense. I absolutely love how well they are doing and I can't wait to get them some elbow room.
Panman wrote:I can't believe how big these are considering most of them had a rhizome that was only about 1/8 to 1/4 of an inch.Many people have commented the same thing, that FTS flytraps seem to hit the ground running. Maybe Matt and Leah are unknowingly doing something that enables the plant to put more into the rhizome, like the plant preparing for a bad year by storing more food for later.
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