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Old 11th June 2009, 08:57 AM
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Today was a good day for plants. I got four new dionaea in the mail today, and went straight out and planted them next to my typicals.



Starting from the left and going right I have two typicals, one red dragon, one big mouth, one dentate, and one flowering typical from what's supposed to be a particularly vigorous clone. :D The flowers I have to admit I didn't expect! When the sales website said "mature, flowering plant" I thought they meant "flowering age" not actually flowering right now! But flowering it is. Too bad I can't take any credit for it.
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Old 11th June 2009, 10:39 AM
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Cut the flower off!!!Is it too late now?Spark,your Vft might die of tireness!!The traps will droop.......Nevermind since you have so much Vfts.Don't cut it off first.Wait for the pro to tell you because it might grow another flower if you cut it(the flower stalk is so long now).Baby your plant,give it lots of light!!!!!!
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Old 11th June 2009, 10:40 AM
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Still love your plants
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Old 11th June 2009, 10:59 AM
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There's nothing wrong with letting a healthy flytrap flower! I don't know why people get all worked up about it. And it's going to flower very soon anyhow, it's already used up most of the energy that the flower requires, so cutting it now wouldn't help much if it were sick. But it's not! It's a very happy plant.

Fly traps in the wild flower like crazy, after all! So so long as they're nice and healthy, it's not hurting anything.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3348/...62abde4e5e.jpg is a whole field of venus fly trap flowers!

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3612/...0f95fa9ab6.jpg

They're very pretty, I'm hoping that shipping and transplant shock doesn't make this one abort the flower, I'd love to see it bloom.
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Old 11th June 2009, 12:06 PM
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Well, a friend wanted close ups of the individual plants, so I took some more photos.

Typical


Red dragon


Big Mouth


Dentate


And the "big vigorous" typical clone about to bloom.



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Old 11th June 2009, 12:51 PM
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Yeah, venus flytrap flowers are under appreciated. Healthy flytraps flower all the time. Its just dangerous if they are weak or cannot go dormant during the winter.
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Well, dormancy isn't a problem at all here. It gets nice a cold during the winter.
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