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I wanted to plant VFT seeds, my first thought was to get them from eBay and I bought some mixed seeds without thinking. Later I found out I'm gonna have a hard time identifying them. I've read a lot on this site on almost everything about vft and I am sure I can handle the basic of bringing them up from seeds to adult. Now the problem is these mixed seeds, am I gonna plant them together or individual ones in each pot ? My next problem would be identifying them.

After i realized this mistake. I went ahead to buy another batch of Royal red and Saw tooth. That should be safe from these unidentified group.

What I've done in these situations is just plant them and see where it goes (it's not to hard to identify the plants as they mature) Hope this helps

Jimbok3 wrote:What I've done in these situations is just plant them and see where it goes (it's not to hard to identify the plants as they mature) Hope this helps

Okay Maybe I'll just drop a few seed.for a start and see how it goes.... After all its my first time here. But I'm still not sure about identifying then over a list like this...

Dionaea muscipula 'Akai Ryu' {Ron Gagliardo}[22]
Dionaea muscipula 'Alien' {Guillaume Bily}[23]
Dionaea muscipula 'B52' {Barry Meyers-Rice}[24]
Dionaea muscipula 'Blanche Hermine' {Guillaume Bily}[25]
Dionaea muscipula 'Bohemian Garnet' {Miroslav Srba}[26]
Dionaea muscipula 'Clayton's Red Sunset' {Colin Clayton}[27]
Dionaea muscipula 'Coquillage' {Guillaume Bily}[28]
Dionaea muscipula 'Cupped Trap' {Steven Stewart}[29]
Dionaea muscipula 'Dentate Traps' {Barry Meyers-Rice}[30]
Dionaea muscipula 'Fondue' {Guillaume Bily}[31]
Dionaea muscipula 'Fused Tooth' {Peter D'Amato & Thomas Carow}[32]
Dionaea muscipula 'Green Dragon' {Marcus Erbacher & M. Stoeckl}[24]
Dionaea muscipula 'Holland Red' {Marcus Erbacher & M. Stoeckl}[24]
Dionaea muscipula 'JA1' {Julio Alberto González Domínguez}[33]
Dionaea muscipula 'Jaws' {Leo Song, Jr.}[34]
Dionaea muscipula 'Justina Davis' {Barry Meyers-Rice}[24]
Dionaea muscipula 'Korean Melody Shark' {Jang Gi-Won & Wook Hyon (Max) Yoon}[35]
Dionaea muscipula 'Korrigans' {Guillaume Bily}[36]
Dionaea muscipula 'Louchapates' {Romuald Anfraix}[37]
Dionaea muscipula 'Microdent' {Gayl Quenon}[38] [originally published as Dionaea muscipula 'Microdents'][39]
Dionaea muscipula 'Mirror' {Dieter Blancquaert}[40]
Dionaea muscipula 'Petite Dragon' {Robert Ziemer}[41]
Dionaea muscipula 'Red Burgundy' {Marcus Erbacher & M. Stoeckl}[24]
Dionaea muscipula 'Red Piranha' {Edward Read}[42]
Dionaea muscipula 'Royal Red' {Geoffrey Mansell}[24]
Dionaea muscipula 'Sawtooth' {Barry Meyers-Rice}[43]
Dionaea muscipula 'Scarlatine' {Lucien Blacher}[44]
Dionaea muscipula 'Scarlet Bristle' {Real Keehn Concepts}[45]
Dionaea muscipula 'Wacky Traps' {Barry Meyers-Rice}[24]
The Dionaea Dentate Traps Group includes registered cultivars bearing shortened, triangular teeth, such as 'Dentate Traps', 'Red Piranha', and 'Sawtooth'.[46]

An unofficial list includes many more names, with more added annually. None of these "variation names" are officially recognized unless the name is properly documented, registered and accepted by the International Registration Authority for carnivorous plant cultivars, the International Carnivorous Plant Society.

Published but unregistered cultivar names include (name of nominant in braces):

Dionaea muscipula 'Big Mouth' {Tony Camilleri}[24]
Dionaea muscipula 'Clumping Cultivar' {Peter D'Amato}[24]
Dionaea muscipula 'Dentate' {Peter D'Amato} [established as Dionaea muscipula 'Dentate Traps'][24]
Dionaea muscipula 'Dente' {Peter D'Amato} [established as Dionaea muscipula 'Dentate Traps'][24]
Dionaea muscipula 'Kinchyaku' {Katsuhiko Kondo}[24]
Dionaea muscipula 'Red Rosetted' {Peter D'Amato}[24]

You don't get 'types' of VFT from seeds. In other words, you don't get seeds to grow Sawtooth or Maroon Monster etc...

All seed grown VFT are typicals.

read this:

http://www.flytrapcare.com/phpBB3/post1 ... ?hilit=all seeds growns are typicals#p150872

Hope it helps

Ginsburg wrote:You don't get 'types' of VFT from seeds. In other words, you don't get seeds to grow Sawtooth or Maroon Monster etc...

All seed grown VFT are typicals.

read this:

http://www.flytrapcare.com/phpBB3/post1 ... ?hilit=all seeds growns are typicals#p150872

Hope it helps

Ginsburg,

Thanks for pointing out that all fly trap are the same. Now i know the only difference are the traits... I'm not sure if i should be sad or happy over the Royal Red and Saw tooth seeds which I had bought hoping I'll get the same traits from it. But after reading the articles, there is a higher chance the same traits will appear right ?

I took out 3 seeds for my first test to see if something will happen using the "Water Germination" method.

Boy These seeds are small


Up close shows 1 crack seed, I'll use it anyway to see what happen


A small transparent container, distill water and sterilised cotton

You'll only find that out once they have grown a bit.

Hope you come up with some interesting ones!

Happy growing!

Wow! Those where some really nice photos!
Best of luck!

Ginsburg wrote:You'll only find that out once they have grown a bit.

Hope you come up with some interesting ones!

Happy growing!

Ginsburg,

Yeah, now i cant wait for them to arrive so i could quickly start the seeds off....

Thank you and i will update once i spot something green

You too, happy growing!

Daniel_G wrote:Wow! Those where some really nice photos!
Best of luck!

Hi Daniel,

Thank you, I was lucky I had some decent lens from my hobby so i could just check on the seeds so see what it's like

Thanks for the luck! I need plenty right now.


I am guessing some signs of germination in a week? fingers X

tish wrote:I am guessing some signs of germination in a week?

More like a month...

tish wrote:Boy These seeds are small

You should see drosera seeds!!!


Good luck!

3 months and you should see something like this. I just dropped the seeds in wet peat and mist daily and leave the dome on my tray at all times.

bananaman wrote:

tish wrote:I am guessing some signs of germination in a week?

More like a month...

tish wrote:Boy These seeds are small

That is pretty long! Actually I was lucky, some already germinated in 5-7 days for me. They were harvest this year, probably a few months ago as ThomasL stated

You should see drosera seeds!!!


Good luck!

I did have a comparison , i agree they are much thinner but with the protecting shell, it was almost as long as VFT seeds hehe

My follow up thread, sorry for the confusion.
http://www.flytrapcare.com/phpBB3/ti-h- ... 17762.html

44_Sphagnum wrote:3 months and you should see something like this. I just dropped the seeds in wet peat and mist daily and leave the dome on my tray at all times.

Wow, great set og VFT you have there, and i was hoping they would be much larger at 3 months. Man! they are still so tiny n cute. hehe I really like your healthy bunch. My has started popping something out of the tip and i'm going to transfer them to cups later when I start seeing leaves. Thans for your great advise 44_Sphagnum!