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So a couple weeks back almost a month at this point I cut the flower stalk my b52 was attempting to put up, in doing so i damaged a few of the new traps (no biggie there) but for a while the growth seemed like it had came to hault and now…. Well just look! Theres at LEAST 7 new traps coming up from this ONE plant. Is this normal after flowering?

Possibly, my VFT started putting out a few more traps after, but since its the b52 maybe it put out more because it grows faster. But darn what size are those traps?!?!?

Those are almost 2 inches or probably about that according to what my measurement app on my iPhone says! I don’t have a regular ruler on hand sadly but they’re pretty big!

Thats what im hoping to get on my VFTs, lol. But i did recieve a baby from the FTS and i think it may be a cultivar, because it grows super fast, very hardy, (like super tough) and it grows big traps for its size and age!

I just ordered 2 flytraps from CC a dcxl and another b52 because I wanna see how the plant sizes and condition compares accross different nurseries! If you received it from fts and its not tagged then it’s technically I guess typical but typicalls can express a lot of different traits that make them anything but “typical” which isn’t a bad thing! Here’s a “typical” that I got from Lowe’s! Notice how red it is and how long the cilia are!

After cutting the flower stalk. The plant makes new divisions faster since flowering takes lots of energy.


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Oh okay that would make sense then! Thanks

I have noticed from experience that when a VFT gets stressed it might produce divisions. I noticed that this happens especially after flowering. Or when one rotted it produced a lot of small divisions ( they rotted too ). Or when some divisions get blocked by bigger ones they might split into more but smaller ones. Even when you repot a VFT it stops for a while but then it explodes in growth even if the substrate is old ( from experience ).

Uhhhh so you don’t think that the bad reason is what’s happening with mine right?

Theres no eeaosn my flytrap should be stressed i give it everything it needs and as far as I know it’s not rotting ! So I *think* and hope everything is okay and it’s just making divisions because of flowering

No I don’t think there is something wrong with your VFT. I just say that VFTs can divide after some stressful events such as flowering.