sans, I don't have anything to do with running the seed bank (and the crowds cheered!!!!
) but looking back at your order it looks like there was a breakdown in communication with the early ordering of the vft seeds. For each month's request you get an "order number" and it looked like you received and apparently responded to a single order number notification. Chef does a really good job keeping seeds cataloged, orders acknowledged, shipped, etc., and he depends heavily on those order numbers. Either something like a "failure to communicate" happened or we have a postal inspector pilfering Venus flytrap seeds...did you notice any repaired razor slits in the return envelope? It also could be that Chef sent you some of the new, top secret "Stealth" flytrap seeds...the plants are invisible to the bugs and the bugs fly straight into the traps, I would assume the seeds have that stealth ability to and simply may have been invisible. But, from what I hear you have to have a special "stealth" grow mix which is very hard to mix because you can't see the ingredients...I think there are experiments and research currently going on in Clarksville, TN, by one of JPL's leading undercover junior scientists. YMMV.