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I have had this Venus flytrap for a while now as it was my first one. I would assume over the past two months or so it would have acclimated to my environment. I live in zone 9 and summer is currently high 70's and humidity is around 50%. This VFT is not doing so well though.



There is a lot of new growth but the traps are just stopping or slowing down at some point. Should I keep them under the shade of my sarracenia and drosera binata to prevent sunburn? I don't know what I could be doing wrong aside from it getting too much direct hot sun and it getting burned. There is no pest, and there is no fungus or mold.

I have grocery store flytraps that are doing better and have gotten more large growth than this one from California carnivores.

What's wrong???


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I would leave it shaded by the other plants for a few. Long as its getting some bright shade and water.

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I'm wondering if maybe it's staying too wet. The sundews and sarracenia look good,but they like quite a bit more water than the fly trap.

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Frothy_Milk wrote:I have had this Venus flytrap for a while now as it was my first one. I would assume over the past two months or so it would have acclimated to my environment. I live in zone 9 and summer is currently high 70's and humidity is around 50%. This VFT is not doing so well though.



There is a lot of new growth but the traps are just stopping or slowing down at some point. Should I keep them under the shade of my sarracenia and drosera binata to prevent sunburn? I don't know what I could be doing wrong aside from it getting too much direct hot sun and it getting burned. There is no pest, and there is no fungus or mold.

I have grocery store flytraps that are doing better and have gotten more large growth than this one from California carnivores.

What's wrong???


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Have the temperature recently went up? Usually an unexpected heat wave would cause this, But with positive rebound.

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