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Hello, I'm new here, but not so new in VFT's growing. I live in Lithuania, maybe you know my country because of basketball, if not you can find it in the map near the Baltic sea. Winters in Lithuania are pretty cold, 2-3 times through winter temperature drops to -25C (5 climate zone).
My oldest typical VFT belongs to me, for 4 years. All red giant - 2 years, all others I bought last spring.
Today I replanted all my VFT's, so new season begins. All plants were dormancy in glazed balcony, where temperature in winter don't drop below 0C and ranges about 5-10C. This is first season I'll try to grow few plants in sphagnum moss. I've read that in North America it's usual to use this substrate, but in Europe we mostly use a mix of peat, perlite and sand. And it's first year, when I'm using only white pots.
So few my VFT photos. All of them are after dormancy.
1. My oldest typical VFT diveded to 5 plants. And last year I bought prostrate discounted VFT and it dived to 2. Pot of typical VFT (you can see, one has flower stalk). 2. All red giant. 3. Coquillage doesn't look very well, but growing new leaves. As I wrote, one pot is with sphagnum moss ant other a mix of peat, perlite and sand. 4. Cross Teeth. I ordered 1 plant last year, but seller send me 3 and now I have 5. 5. Fused tooth. Looks nice and healthy after winter. 6. Fuzzy tooth, looks fine too. 7. Microdent, one trap is closed, because I've already gave a fly. 8. Big mouth. And kindergarten for little VFT's. 1x microdent, 3x cross teeth, 4x big mouth. This spring I'm planning to buy: Alien, Angel wings, B52, Bohemian garnet, Crested petioles, Cupped trap, Fondue, Korrigans, Low giant, Mirror, Triton,Yellow.
And in the end - sorry for my english

Welcome to FlytrapCare! I have, in fact, heard of Lithuania because of basketball

That's a very nice collection of flytraps you have there and it sounds like you're going to add some more very interesting varieties soon. Since you love Dionaea so much, I'd say you've definitely come to the right place to share photos and talk about your collection!

Looking great! Thanks for sharing! I'd like to see them in the fall too.

Hi, welcome to FTC. You got some nice cultivar

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Nice traps!!!

Thanks for good words. Just ordered 10 new vft's from www.carnivoria.eu
Jaws smiley
Angel wings
Crested petioles
Fondue
Korrigans
Mirror
Triton
Yellow
Pink venus
Trichterfalle

They have some really cool plants for sale!! Makes me want to move to europe to order some haha

Kindergarten progress in a month. VFT typical flowerstalk gets more sun and became red.

shrnz wrote:Thanks for good words. Just ordered 10 new vft's from http://www.carnivoria.eu
Jaws smiley
Angel wings
Crested petioles
Fondue
Korrigans
Mirror
Triton
Yellow
Pink venus
Trichterfalle

If you are from Lituania, we are neighbors. I'm from Romania.

Not very close neighbors, ~1500km between us

Newbies arrived on monday (03.23). Plants just started to waking up from dormancy and don't look good. But roots are strong and healthy, so I think everything will be ok.
Jaws smiley and triton are growing flower stalks. I'm thinking to cut it when it'll be ~6cm high and try to grow small vft's. But don't have an experience with that, so all advises are welcome. Smallest newbies planted in kindergarten. In the left, from up to down: Korrigans, Trichterfalle and Pink venus. You can compare with older photos other flytraps in aquarium show great progress.

The new arrivals look good! And that's a nice variety of interesting flytraps there

Lots of my cultivars are growing flowerstalks, so I'm planning a propagation. I'm thinking to cut flowerstalks when they reach 3-4cm lenght and stick them to peat moss in my vft aquarium. Don't want to let flowerstalks grow longer, couse plants are pretty small. I have a few questions:
1. I spray my baby vft's every day, but do I need to do something for higher humidity, ex. put top of the plastic bottle on each flowerstalk?
2. Is ~22 C temperature enough for propagation?
3. How deep should I stick flowerstalk in the peat moss?
The bulb over aquarium shines 13h/day.

List of VFT's growing flowestalks: 7x typical, All red giant, 2x Coquillage, 2x Cross Teeth, Fused tooth, Fuzzy tooth, Microdent, Big mouth, Jaws smiley, Triton, Trichterfalle.
Pot of typicals. The strongest one - all red giant. Crocodile, which I got bonus from the customer, one of my favorites.

Looking good! I really like that photo of the flytrap with the cityscape background