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Hi everyone. So, I was at the garden centre today buying parsley and saw three sad looking carnivores on sale for a dollar each! I bought them as I felt for their plight , one is a fly trap and I'm not sure of the other two. So here they are:
I have just got home and re potted in spag and hopefully they will comeback to life. They were being sold in coffee type plastic cups with no drainage! Shudder! If anyone can tell me what they Are I'd be indebted!


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Here they are after being repotted!


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The other two both belong to the Sarracenia purpurea complex.

The flytrap's in bad shape, I couldn't say whether it will survive or not. The Sarracenia will certainly be fine and are definitely S. purpurea or possibly a hybrid with that species.

Yeah, flytrap looks shocker. But for a dollAr I thought I'd try to save it anyway! Thanks for sarr id. I'll now have a look at care for them. Fingers crossed I can save the poor things!!! Thanks for replies. Wish me luck!!


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Flytrap should easily survive, I've seen a lot worse. Growth point looks intact and media was wet so the roots should be good. All it needs is some light and it should do great.

Cool , I've repotted the fly trap too and cut off the rotted bits, put it outside to acclimatise and have fingers crossed all of them will be ok! Sad to see them dying in a corner at the garden centre!


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I would remove the flytrap out of that clear plastic tube, its far too wet.

Yeah I've repotted all of them


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Did the flytrap make it? I had one that showed only one tiny green knob for a whole year, then the next year it came back perfectly normal. They're amazing little survivors!

heathenpriest wrote:Did the flytrap make it? I had one that showed only one tiny green knob for a whole year, then the next year it came back perfectly normal. They're amazing little survivors!

This is it now :


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Well done!! Looks great.

Thanks smooter80. Wanted to do comparison and tracked down the original post! Hehe. Glad I helped the poor thing. I'd forgotten how terrible it looked when I first got it!


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