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I suspect this is another flower stalk, since I cut the first one off before it was an inch tall. But this one is coming in much larger than the first was. This plant was received about a month and a week ago, and it is yet to produce a full new trap. It had one small leaf which did finish growing and has a decent sized trap but other than that no resumed growth yet. The others in the pot are all doing great.

Anyway. Second flower stalk? What are your thoughts?

I don't really know, but we shall look at this interesting growth, and determine what it is as you continue to post more pictures!

I definitely will. It's slow growing though. Probably took two weeks to get to this.

Sometimes in the spring flytraps will produce a mass of growth in the center of the rhizome like yours has done here. It looks like an undifferentiated mass of tissue but eventually traps will start forming out of it.

Matt wrote:Sometimes in the spring flytraps will produce a mass of growth in the center of the rhizome like yours has done here. It looks like an undifferentiated mass of tissue but eventually traps will start forming out of it.

Ahh gotcha, so it's essentially divided, but above the soil basically? That explains the lack of any other growth from only this plant.

cjpflaumer wrote:so it's essentially divided, but above the soil basically?

Yeah, I think that's a good analogy.

cjpflaumer wrote:Ahh gotcha, so it's essentially divided, but above the soil basically? That explains the lack of any other growth from only this plant.

Or a bunch of plant cells that don't know which part of the plant they're supposed to be. Leaf? Root? Rhizome? They haven't decided. It looks like a bud off of my grape vines. Weird looking!

You might get a false vivipary growing out of that callus. I had a clone that produced flower stalks with false vivipary during the two years I had it for (I accidentally killed it about 3 years ago by letting my indoor CPs overheat from a new heater we got...) and the starting flower stalks on that plant look very similar to the lump of new growth in your photo.

However, as others have already mentioned, it's more likely to be a mass of tissue that's going to sprout a lot of small new traps.

I'll get an updated picture tonight if I can get good enough lighting.

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