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The easiest way to grow new plants is to cut your flower stalks and forget about it. My vfts had a freezing episode in early spring, (still all in a little rough condition) so my decision was to forego flowering and just hope for stalk propagation...wish me luck...

That's pretty funny looking

Looks like baby asparagus...

Nice , good luck ! Quick question how long does it usually take for a flower stalk to produce a plantlet and can you cut a long stem and plant each piece to get more plants?

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ironcore21 wrote:Nice , good luck ! Quick question how long does it usually take for a flower stalk to produce a plantlet and can you cut a long stem and plant each piece to get more plants?

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Second question, yes cut them into 1" / 1.5" pieces
First question, anywhere from a week to a month and a half I'd say?

I agree with SFLguy...

Awesome good to know thanks !

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Update...Here they come My flower stalks are now little vfts... Advice is this be patient and they will grow....Never rush a stalk ....

Very nice!

Wow awesome, looks like a total success!!!

It does take 4-6 weeks and sometimes even a little longer.. A few haven't started yet but I still leave them in the pot.

So I take it that these flower stalk plants are genetically the same age as the parent plant and once established will grow adult sized traps?

If so that is much better than screwing around for several years nursing seedlings along waiting for them to grow into adult plants.

That's a very good question... I'm not sure how that works as far as the age of the new plants started from stalks... I just thought it was like cloning... I agree that they do grow larger a lot quicker than seeds....

Venus flytraps formed from flower stalks are exact genetic clones of the parent plant. But age is largely irrelevant when it comes to flytraps other than those started from seed. Once a plant is an adult, it can divide many times and produce small genetically identical divisions for which "age" has no relevance.

Now I wish I knew which stalk was which... King Henry, dentate, typical, all flowered this year and I took stalk cuttings...Oh well just have to wait and see....