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Who every grows and sells seeds I was wondering if you cross pollinate your Fly Traps or do you just pollinate them using the same flowers pollen. Also I was just curious if you could cross different types like for example B52 and low giant. I like the idea of building a super Venus Fly Trap.
You can answer the question or just think of two types of plants that would be really cool to fuse.

I asked that exact same question last year,but just a bit different.You can but it won't come out the way you want it to.Some will end up being normal flytraps and others will vary greatly.

I think you can rub two flowers together to cross pollinate. Or they pollinate themselves if you leave them alone.

Ideas?
Sawtooth and Fused Tooth.
H13 and B52
Cupped trap and Wacky trap. (Not many people that these)

Wait... Is H13 real or was it my dream?

lemonlily wrote:I think you can rub two flowers together to cross pollinate. Or they pollinate themselves if you leave them alone.

Ideas?
Sawtooth and Fused Tooth.
H13 and B52
Cupped trap and Wacky trap. (Not many people that these)

Wait... Is H13 real or was it my dream?

They have all kinds of alphabets and numbers.

who knows!! maybe if your lucky

Pollinating using the same plant or flower results in a lower percentage of seeds being viable.

oh, so we should stick to self-pollination?

no i think that means its better if you dont.

Yes. Ideally you have two separate plants flowering at the same time. You use the pollen from one plant on the other.

lemonlily wrote:I think you can rub two flowers together to cross pollinate. Or they pollinate themselves if you leave them alone.
Ideas?
Cupped trap and Wacky trap

I don't think that anyone has been successful in crossing with wacky traps yet as the stigma is always deformed and will not accept pollen.

Oh, that's odd.... I guess the wacky traps is good enough itself! But that won't be any fun...

lemonlily wrote:Oh, that's odd.... I guess the wacky traps is good enough itself! But that won't be any fun...

But the pollen's good...only the stigma is..um..deformed

Can you use the pollen and put it on other Dionaea plant flowers?