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No idea the species or type of these two flytraps.
They were both originally six inches but most of that height came from a lot of dead stems and heads. So after a gentle trimming and repotting.

Here are are new beauties.

AgentMaineMeta wrote: ↑Mon Jun 13, 2022 9:24 pm No idea the species or type of these two flytraps.

There is only one species of venus flytrap, Dionaea muscipula. All other varieties are cultivars, typicals, or un-named varieties.

If a plant comes without a name it is by default a typical.

^^^^ What he said.
Plus, you'll want to remove those rocks. VFT's live in an acidic environment, and that acid can leach minerals from rocks and such that will kill them.

Yep, those are "typical" flytraps. They look good, ya'll did a good job. And, as Dean mentioned...toss the rocks. I see opaque, non-quartz rocks there and they're not "silica". Something you might want to consider is getting a small bottle of some Tetra freeze-dried blood worms from the pet department and using them to feed the traps with. A little bit goes a long way. There's several threads here talking about them and Matt has a full page devoted to it...Feed a Venus flytrap. It supposedly increases the growth-rate and makes for some healthy plants. I'm going to be trying it myself on some Walmart rescues. Just gotta get to Walmart and grab a can of worms.

I'd toss the moss too. It doesn't look like real sphagnum, so it might be harmful to CPs (again, wrong acidity thing).

Intheswamp wrote: ↑Mon Jun 13, 2022 11:20 pm Just gotta get to Walmart and grab a can of worms.

I haven't been able to find those worms. Instead I use a fish food and maxsea solution.

thepitchergrower wrote: ↑Mon Jun 13, 2022 11:53 pm

Intheswamp wrote: ↑Mon Jun 13, 2022 11:20 pm Just gotta get to Walmart and grab a can of worms.

I haven't been able to find those worms. Instead I use a fish food and maxsea solution.

It's interesting that you can't find the blood worms. The reason I say that is that I looked on Amazon and it looks like they don't have them. But, my local Walmart (25 miles away ) has them and I've got a bottle of them on my pickup order for tomorrow. I wonder if there's something going on with the supply on those. Thankfully, from what I understand, a bottle of them lasts a log time. I would say that if you can't find freeze-dried blood worms then some of the other fish foods appear to work well. One often recommended food is Tetra Betta Pellets. Which food are you feeding, thepitchergrower?

I hear some people are allergic to blood worms. I use fish flakes (I think the brand is tetra min) powdered, and mixed with maxsea (1:1 ratio). Pure maxsea doesn't work in my climate because it evaporates off the leaves too quickly. Mixing it with maxsea isn't necessary, 1:1 powdered fish flakes to water (preferably low TDS) works as well.

Somebody is always allergic to something, but it does seem they mention it more for the blood worms. I was curious about the type food that you use because Tetra makes so many different fish foods.