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hello venus flytrap community!!

i want to know what are the advantages and disadvantages of buying a venus flytrap already grown?

please comment on it! , also if you got any suggestions or experiences with your VFT i would be more than glad to know them!!

Hi! Welcome to Fly Trap Care!

Do you mean buying a grown as opposed to purchasing seeds or a seedling. I would recommend starting off your collecting with one or a few grown flytraps before you start to cultivate seeds/seedlings. VFTs take a very long time to mature (often more than 3 years) from a seed. A good possibility would be to buy a mature plant, wait for it to flower, make sure it gets pollinated, and then plant the seeds once the seed pod matures. If you plant your seeds successfully, you will have MANY flytraps. I think you'll be much more satisfied starting off with a mature plant.

-Cameron

I agree with Cameron. But if you really want to grow some plants from seed, I say go for it! I think most people that try to grow flytraps from seed don't know that they take so long to grow. If you know that already, you won't be disappointed when they're so small for the first year that you need a magnifying glass to see them

CaMoreno3 wrote:Hi! Welcome to Fly Trap Care!

Do you mean buying a grown as opposed to purchasing seeds or a seedling. I would recommend starting off your collecting with one or a few grown flytraps before you start to cultivate seeds/seedlings. VFTs take a very long time to mature (often more than 3 years) from a seed. A good possibility would be to buy a mature plant, wait for it to flower, make sure it gets pollinated, and then plant the seeds once the seed pod matures. If you plant your seeds successfully, you will have MANY flytraps. I think you'll be much more satisfied starting off with a mature plant.

-Cameron

thank you a lot, i really appreciate your comments!!!! I i will begin with grown VFTs so i could have lots of seeds at the end! thank you i'm really glad you comment on my post!

Matt wrote:I agree with Cameron. But if you really want to grow some plants from seed, I say go for it! I think most people that try to grow flytraps from seed don't know that they take so long to grow. If you know that already, you won't be disappointed when they're so small for the first year that you need a magnifying glass to see them

thank you Matt, i will surely begin with grown up VFTs, and then i will have lot's of seeds, today i plant my two seeds in sphagnum moss, i follow all the steps, hope they grow well!

Welcome to the forum! I thought I’d mention that the message that you’re responding to is 13 years old.

the response sounds ai generated lol

Yeah, and there's been a lot of them in quick succession.

I thought it could be some type of robot. You never know these days...which is kind of disheartening.