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this is my first full spring with my plants, i let three of my fly traps flower and there pretty big now and they look like they are about to open??? ive been reading how i should manually pollinate with a fine paint brush within 24 hours? or could i just leave them alone and leave it up 2 nature??? will they both guarantee me seeds??? and my pinguicula premiflora is also developing a flower, will this also produce seeds like the venus fly trap???? any advice is appreciated???

If your plants are outside, you can most likely just let them pollinate naturally. If you want to ensure pollination, you can do it yourself with a paintbrush, toothpick or tweezers.

I don't own any pings, so I'm not sure what their reproduction process is, but I think almost any time a plant produces flowers, it's for seed production.

Hello sipecsus,

Manually pollinating VFT flowers will give you good success rate with seeds. With Pings, you need to manually pollinate them unless you live where their natural pollinators are too.

hb

so i live in sunny southern california, i keep my plants outside in a home made green house. i often leave small openings so bugs (food) will be able 2 enter, so im thinking ill just let nature do its work, these are my first flower stalks and i dont want 2 mess it up in any way!

My plants produced more than one flower stalk each, so I cut a couple and stuck them next to the plants. It's been like three weeks now and I notice little flytraps forming out of the base of the flower stalk , should I snip the flower stalk since it's already growing from the base of it, the stalk is prettymuch black nd dead dead anyways.

sipecsus wrote:My plants produced more than one flower stalk each, so I cut a couple and stuck them next to the plants. It's been like three weeks now and I notice little flytraps forming out of the base of the flower stalk , should I snip the flower stalk since it's already growing from the base of it, the stalk is prettymuch black nd dead dead anyways.

I always just leave it as it is, but I don't think it would hurt it to snip it. It's just a piece of dead plant tissue at this point, right?

Yeah the base of it is green but the actual flower stalk is black nd withered

sipecsus wrote:Yeah the base of it is green but the actual flower stalk is black nd withered

Yep, that's how it should be. Congrats on the plantlets.