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By Matt
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Occasionally we get people posting to the forums that their plant grew a "long stem" (aka flower stalk) and that there are traps growing off of the "long stem." I've seen other photos of false vivipary, but I've rarely seen it in person. The photos below are the best examples of false vivipary I've seen since I've been growing flytraps. The plant in the photos is an seed-grown flytrap that is tentatively named FTS 007. I had it indoors until April or so, when I moved it out to the greenhouses after many of the rest of the flytraps had already started flowering. I think that the late start on flowering had something to do with the occurrence of false vivipary.
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By Eric
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Hm... It may just be my color blindness, but does the flower in the first photo look pink to anyone?
By pieguy452
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#121546
Whoa! Thats so weird, i love it :) Thanks for sharing Matt, thats an awesome mutation you got there! Think it may be able to continue making flower stalks like that?
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By Matt
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Eric wrote:does the flower in the first photo look pink to anyone?
Nope, not to me. Looks pretty white.
pieguy452 wrote:Think it may be able to continue making flower stalks like that?
I don't think so. I think false vivipary is a thing of chance, but it would be nice if I were wrong and the plant repeatedly made flower stalks like that every year :)
By Daniel_G
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#121582
Nice, are you going to take them off and grow them as cuttings?

Also, Eric, i see it too, but i'm clolor blind aswell...
By knights
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#121591
wow thats awesome.
also thats a beautiful VFT.
i doubt us folk in the UK will be able to get our hands on that 007. :(
so do you know what will happen when the flower stalk starts to die?
will the traps somehow stay? or will they also die off?
very interesting
By alabama
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#121605
i saw one earlier this year matt and i actually have it growing i pulled it off with my fingers as close to its little rhizome type deal they get and i put it in the soil and it continued to grow.
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