- Mon Apr 16, 2012 7:37 pm
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I thought about it. It's something about it where people say " i found a great pot for flytraps!", when its just a tall pot. You can go to lowes, home depot, or mostly any other gardening store and get a 12 inch pot (deeper than those) which holds more soil and more room for the flytraps to spread. I think that people see them as a longer pot, forgetting that there are 12 inch pots available. They can be good if you don't have a lot of soil, but a bag of peat moss or FS largest medium bag should fill a 12 inch pot up. Flytraps would get much bigger in a 12" pot. They are good for trees because their "rhizomes" aren't as girthy as flytrapsa dn they will save soil. But a flytrap would do better in a pot wider than 4". I grow some baby flytraps in 5" pots and some that I was too lazy to repot in. The adults in the 5" pots have filled them out to capacity and I wouldn't be suprised if there were over 15 plantlets in them. They all have small traps (from being bunched up) and they have divided instead of growing big. My other plants in 12- 14" pots have traps 1" to 1.75" traps. I divide them as frequently as I can (now) so they can individually get bigger, then plant them out together in a 12-14" pot. Give them lots of room and they should grow big if your care is good. I only put 2 plants in a 14" pot and one in a 12" pot.
When grown in short pots, their roots coil around the bottom of the pot and don't grow too much longer, then the moisture is everywhere and they stop growing big and start dividing. You want your flytraps to reach for moisture and that encourages root growth.
Hope this helped!
James