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I see pics of people's flytrap seedlings at so many months and I think what am I doing wrong? I don't keep them wet, they are in good draining medium, they are under lights or outside, etc. It seems like they just don't wanna grow for me

So, what's the secret??

How old are they? Are you able to feed them? After I fed a few traps on each plant, that's when mine really started growing.. I won't say it's easy to get that little bloodworm "meatball" in the trap, but that is one way to get them to grow faster..

they dont grow very fast, in my experience, they only start growing really nicely after first dormancy

hollyhock wrote:How old are they? Are you able to feed them? After I fed a few traps on each plant, that's when mine really started growing.. I won't say it's easy to get that little bloodworm "meatball" in the trap, but that is one way to get them to grow faster..

I have fed them in the past, and they did grow, but it just seems that they aren't as big as some others' I've seen at like the 7 month mark, etc. just not sure what I'm doing wrong lol...so, I've started "painting" them within the past couple of days with diluted MaxSea on the leaves; it worked with some of my big flytraps to get them extra food while being delayed on breaking dormancy due to my dormancy mess-up :-/

That will probably help too...I don't think you are doing anything wrong. I just thought about a few things. I have some babies that are huge and some that are tiny.. I think that some just are more vigorous growers, and also not all of my seeds germinated on the same day.. So while I think that they are ALL 6 months old they really are various ages...make sense?

Four things: Soil, water, light, food. That's all I do, and mine are doing great. I'll scrounge up a few pictures and give you my general conditions, if you'd like.

sure!! sounds great

all you need is a sterile environment, a little table sugar, some agar, and vitamins, and they will grow like crazy, trust me xD.

katya_dog1 wrote:Three things: Soil, water, light, food. That's all I do, and mine are doing great. I'll scrounge up a few pictures and give you my general conditions, if you'd like.

I think thats four

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Oops. I suppose I was initially thinking soil, water, and light, but....

It's fixed now.