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Rocket Farms plants do look really nice but I have never been able to get them to maintain that color.

Dang and a flower to boot! The Rocket ones always look so twisty and wild when they’re potted.

You lucky duck. Mine from Lowe’s are all growing well and showing vastly different growth, but no flowers yet

Great find, and nice looking VFTs! My local Lowe's in Louisiana usually only have dead plants! Once in a great while I've gotten some nice ones. Rocket Farms plants not available where I live.

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andynorth wrote: ↑Thu Jul 18, 2024 8:14 am

Jade wrote: ↑Thu Jul 18, 2024 3:07 am You lucky duck. Mine from Lowe’s are all growing well and showing vastly different growth, but no flowers yet

Did the container say where they were from?

Well last night I sorted hundreds of pictures on my phone so I could give my plants their own albums, so I actually have easy access to the pics in the boxes. I honestly didn’t pay attention. Bug Biting Plants.

They were floppy things coming out of the box, and most of them I had to prune all the leaves off. I didn’t do any acclimation, so the original leaves and traps died back to nothing from sunburn, but now they all look fantastic. I have a giant in there that’s pretty cool, and one with the sawtooth look. One that has super red almost purple in the traps, a rosette, one that’s like rosette and growing upwards at the same time.

They’re all so different and beautiful, but no flowers. I guess it’s late for them anyhow isn’t it? Probably when they were supposed to flower was when they were cut back. But it seems like it was worth it. <3

What a great find! Rocket Farms grows really nice plants! Part of me regrets not nabbing one of their pitcher plants when they came in with the initial shipment of VFTs at our local store.

The Rocket Farms typical was my first VFT and it's been a fantastic starter plant, it seems very hardy considering it tolerated all my newbie mistakes with little fuss. I got it late February and this is what it looks like today. It came with huge traps with dark red inner leaves and these aren't as dark or large, I'm wondering if that will be something to look forward to closer to fall.

Panman wrote: ↑Wed Jul 17, 2024 9:57 pm Rocket Farms plants do look really nice but I have never been able to get them to maintain that color.

The nursery sticks their plants under LED grow lights for a few weeks to redden up. This isn't the plants' normal color under natural sunlight.

cpgrower126 wrote: ↑Thu Jul 18, 2024 5:01 pm Rocket Farms flytraps are pretty common in grocery stores around where I live. They typically make thin leaves with small, but many traps. They also make new growth points pretty quickly.

The plants are still suffering from a "tissue-culture hangover". It takes a while for the chemicals to wear off. Until then, you get divisions galore.

These plants may be "just Typicals", but I've gotten some very nice flytraps from Rocket Farms and Bug Biting Plants.

Very nice. I love the one with the deep red traps. That’s definitely a score!