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yours look awesome, I love those shapes and thin hairs, so lovely, like eyelashes

Thanks unicorn, they are turning out to be very nice typical traps. Just to make sure I give credit where it's due, these are FTS seed growns. The way I worded it might have sounded like I grew them from seeds. I'm sure they'd be dead if that were the case!

WOW! I'm loving this thread. Everyones vfts looks so amazing. Yikes I haven't been on fly trap care forums in a long time. I have been super busy, but I am going to get back into my carnivorous plant obsession starting now. Thanks for this thread, dionae! Unfortunately, though I have tried about three times, all of my seeds I've started have eventually died. this is always due to forgetting to water... every time I start seeds again, though, the seedlings live a lot longer than the previous ones, so that gives me hope. I started a pot of the special red mix (only five seeds) and a pot of the normal FTS seed mix (about fifteen seeds). Can't wait to see the seedlings! I LOVE venus fly trap seedlings, the babies are so cute. This time, I WILL get these guys to adulthood. I have to. I'll post pictures the minute I see sprouts.

Happy growing!
Taryn

Good luck Taryn!

Thanks Snap Traps! I added a little heat lamp this morning, many some warmth will speed up the seeds.

Taryn

Does anyone know, what percentage of red seedlings can you get out of the fts normal seeds? Is it possible to get a red seedling out of the "normal" fts seeds?

Thanks!

Taryn

Yes, its very possible.

I don't have any hard numbers, but I would guess somewhere around 5% or so of the seedlings from the normal seed mix would be red-leafed, maybe a bit less than that. In the red seed mix in past years, about 65% of them have been red-leafed.

Update. The plants have really taken off after a week of constant thunderstorms. I'm really surprised at how big they are for being deflasked late last year. Most might flower next year .

they look gorgeous

Very, very nice flytraps Dionae!

Thank you both!

The trap at the top of the second photo caught a whopper!

Great plants Dionae.

Great looking flytraps!

nice looking traps! Going to start my seed grown when red mix comes =)