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By MikeB
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Back in late April, on a whim, I bought 20 inexpensive Venus flytraps off eBay from a seller in Slovakia. I thought it would take a couple weeks for them to arrive, but it ended up taking a whole month (see this post). Needless to say, the flytraps were none too happy about spending so long in the dark. After I unpacked them and cleaned them up, they looked more like bean sprouts than flytraps.
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I potted them and put them outside in a shady location to recover.
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Two and a half months later, here's what they look like:
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I didn't lose a single plant. It's amazing what a little warmth, humidity, and sunshine can do. I keep telling people that Venus flytraps are tougher than they think, and now I have the pictures to prove it.
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The square, black pots are P64: 2.5" square x 3.5" high (65mm square x 90mm high). I got them off eBay or Amazon.

The round, orange pots are from a manufacturer that I can't identify (the bottom of the pot has a stylized "ES" in a circle). They're 3.5" diameter x 3.25" high (90mm diameter x 85mm high). I got them from a seller on Amazon. He was getting out of the gardening supply business, so I bought his remaining stock of 1,900 pots. I've already sold 1,500 of them to a friend who owns a commercial greenhouse. These pots have the same volume as a 4" (100mm) azalea pot, just narrower and taller. They're okay for smaller flytraps, but after a year or so the plants really need taller pots.
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It took about 3 weeks. I kept them in bright, indirect light for this time, which allowed the chlorophyll to come back into the leaves. After that, I started creeping them into the sun over the next 4 weeks. They're looking great now. Some of the plants have bright red traps, should make good breeding stock in the spring.
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Thank you for the quick reply. The traps or shall I use your term lol “bean sprouts” looking plants are dying off with no green coming coming together. Everything is slowly turning black retreating towards the bulb. The bulb is white & not rotten so I’ll just hope for the best as they’re resilient as proven in your case. I did put them under my powerful led lights straight away so that might account for the dying off. Nonetheless I’ll be back with an update in a couple weeks.
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Giantflytrapboy wrote: Thu Oct 08, 2020 9:48 amI did put them under my powerful led lights straight away so that might account for the dying off.
I have no doubt that's it. 6 weeks in total darkness, followed by a blast of very bright light, killed the weakened leaves. As long as the rhizomes don't rot, they should start sprouting new leaves soon.
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