r/VenusFlyTraps

7 total flower stalks and 6 in one pot! They smell amazing! The best way I can describe it is the buttered popcorn jelly bean lol

I'll have to hold back on watering for now lol

Hello everyone! I planted Venus flytrap seeds on March 14. They started sprouting on March 26. They are now growing their traps. Experienced carnivorous plant growers, what advice can you give me? And the main question: if I manage to grow them until autumn, do they need a mild dormancy — for example, by a window or under lights in normal warm conditions — or should I keep growing them without dormancy and let them go dormant in their second year? I’ve seen different opinions, so I’d like to find out.

Una de mis pequeñas ha sacado una boca doble. No sé si es algo habitual o extraño. pero me gustaría investigar. ¿Se podría intentar clonar esta hoja?

This is my first plant. The guy who sold it to me said it was a "spider" grow. I keep it in purified water and it gets indirect sunlight as well as a grow light. What's going on?

New to growing VFT’s and have picked up this little guy a few days ago here in UK. Couple of questions: firstly, when do the traps turn red? I have it under a full range LED lamp as well as by window, and am ensuring only using distilled water so hopefully I’m doing everything right.

Secondly, should I repot the little dude so that the traps are lying flat and not overhanging?

Thanks in advance!

I had a flytrap years ago and I took pretty good care of it, it was growing well. It died during a pretty choatic week when I was moving, and I didnt really know anything about plants. Ive taken to plant care again recently and so I thought it would be fun to get a new flytrap. Ive had it for about a week. The first picture is from the day I got it. 2 days later I tried to repot it so I did with putting it in a mix of sphagnum moss and perlite. I feel like its a little droopy and isnt as perky as it was a week ago so Im curious if I should be worried about it, if Im taking care of it the right way, should I do something different, or just give it time to adjust. I keep it in a dish of distilled water, and its on a table in the middle of my yard where it gets direct sun most of the day. It did rain for a couple of days this week. Im in South Louisiana. Im currently taking care of a pitcher plant, some caladiums, and string of pearls, also various vegetables and they all seem to be doing well but Im very new to serious plant care. The first photo is from a week ago and the next from today.

Noticed some silk around the crown of my vft which honestly may have been a spider, but after clearing it away, I noticed these white specks which upon further inspection appear to be eggs of some sort. The eggs are dispersed across the plant, mostly under leaves, in the photos here is the underside of a mostly dead leaf that seemed to have a whole lot.

I also noticed a bug at the same time, but haven’t seen any others than the two I saw in that moment. Haven’t managed to catch a moving insect under my stereomicroscope just yet.

I also noticed some of the growth has ridges almost like it’s partially deflated, which is my main concern other than the apparent eggs.

Any ideas? Hoping it’s nothing too bad, seems like it’s on a couple plants though.

Just got my second (on the left) as I wanted the common type alone with my red piranha, those traps are huge compared to it!

On April 20th, 2026, there was a sudden overnight freeze that I did not anticipate. I am in zone 6b. I hadn't realized there was an overnight freeze until I woke up to check up on them and saw that some of the water collected by the rain had frozen over. I didn't have the time to put them inside since I had work immediately right after the discovery, so I allowed them to stay outside for the weather to slowly get warmer. Eventually in the evening, I put them inside and refilled their water trays.

These images were taken on April 22nd, 2026.

One of the traps that caught an insect before the freeze was opening up again. Another different trap responded to its hairs being disturbed when I tried feeding it a mealworm; though it closed slowly.

I have not repotted most of them for fear of stressing them out, however, I would hope they are hardy enough to survive through one random frosty weather after being released from dormancy for about two months. I would be so devastated if I lose all of them all because of a mistake.

So I work in rather busy kitchen and we have a tom of these. I took one and was wondering if it's viable plant saucer? Its made out of some form of plastic.

Should i repot them into 1?They were bought in a different time. How do i successfully do them without impacting the plants?

A couple traps got damaged quite a while ago and don't seem to be healing themselves but also aren't damaging the rest of the trap, so I'm not sure if its better to cut them off or leave them be

hi, i have had him for a few months, the stalk grew a LOT but i noticed today that one trap looks like it’s rotting. what should i do? i was speculating since that was the last trap i fed, the bug is still in there rotting. i last fed him a month ago. he just sits in a shallow dish of water. the difference between the photos is like a month at most. when i first got him, he had no middle stalk at all.

Getting pretty chilly these days and I'm noticing that it's starting to get ready for its third dormancy.