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It depends on a number of factors; moisture, humidity, sunlight, species, temperature, etc.
Just be patient, it will happen on it's own schedule.

Unless those plants are established, I’d cut the flower so the plant can put its energy into healing and growing.

Supercazzola wrote:Unless those plants are established, I’d cut the flower so the plant can put its energy into healing and growing.

It's different for Sarrs.
Almost always the flower stalk is the first thing to emerge after dormancy in order to give the flower a chance to get high and be pollinated before to pitchers become developed enough to eat the pollinators. Otherwise the allure of the pitchers could compete with the allure of the flower. Then the plant takes its sweet time, all summer, to slowly ripen the seeds.

ChefDean wrote: ↑Mon Mar 22, 2021 4:17 pm

Supercazzola wrote:Unless those plants are established, I’d cut the flower so the plant can put its energy into healing and growing.

It's different for Sarrs...

What’s different? If the plant puts energy into making the stalk, and it was a recent division, it still will suffer. Unless the plant is established, and you absolutely need the pollen for something, why put the plant through that ?

It's different because Sarrs have evolved to do both at the same time, and their rhizome is large enough to support both actions.
With Flytraps, the flower is an afterthought. Maybe afterthought is a poor choice of wording. Whether it's due to a glut of food, so it decides to put up a stalk, or it's declining and throws a last ditch effort at reproduction. Either way, a Flytrap doesn't have the stored energy because of the smaller rhizome to plant ratio. If it's eating well, starts a stalk, but the food drops off, then it robs the rhizome. If it's already in decline, again, last ditch effort.

Other Sarrs for example.