- Sun Oct 14, 2012 12:59 am
#155943
Hey, everyone. I'm new to these forums, but already it's been a huge boon to the health of my plant. I was recently (by recently, I mean yesterday) told that my plant was actually multiple plants in one pot, so I pulled it out of the pot and divided it into four smaller plants. I planted them in regular foam cups with half organic non-enriched peat moss and half non-enriched perlite (Pike's did not have silica sand). In each cup, there are six holes on the bottom (poked with a chopstick, so I'd say each hole is approximately a centimeter long). All of the cups are placed in a plastic tray about 1.5-2 inches tall filled with VFT appropriate water. The plant was quartered and replanted this morning around 7:30 am, and none of them appear to be dying. However, they do seem feeble. Their leaves are laying low and limp against the ground, and I'm wondering if that is a normal and temporary reaction to repotting or if this is something more serious (or perhaps it is too soon to make any conclusions about how these plants will handle division). I'm not freaking out or anything, but this is my first venus fly trap. I'm concerned for its well being, and any input on how I can improve its situation or how the plants look so far would be MUCH appreciated. I will post some pictures, but I apologize - the pictures were taken at night.
Additional information for plant background:
-I'm in Woodstock, GA USA
-These are Typical VFTs
-They've been growing steadily prior to the division
-Few if any leaves have died since I got it (around sept 24th of this year) - all leaves that died were old growth from when it was at the store, though many of the original leaves DID live
-I purchased the original plant from Home Depot
-The plants are being grown outside and gets full sun from sunrise to around 1pm (after that, it gets partial sun because of the porch cover)
If I forgot any useful information, let me know.
Again, thank you so much for any help, advice or comments. -Lock
Additional information for plant background:
-I'm in Woodstock, GA USA
-These are Typical VFTs
-They've been growing steadily prior to the division
-Few if any leaves have died since I got it (around sept 24th of this year) - all leaves that died were old growth from when it was at the store, though many of the original leaves DID live
-I purchased the original plant from Home Depot
-The plants are being grown outside and gets full sun from sunrise to around 1pm (after that, it gets partial sun because of the porch cover)
If I forgot any useful information, let me know.
Again, thank you so much for any help, advice or comments. -Lock
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This was the plant BEFORE the division.
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The two little leaves in the fifth cup are just leaves that broke off during the division. I just stuck them in the ground and hoped they'd grow a little bit.
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