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As said just got this VFT and pitcher plant I’m hoping light will bring the VFT back to life. I think the PP is in good shape. Any helpful knowledge is greatly appreciated. Have a good day.

Great info thank you. I’m in Minnesota USA. The VFT seems “leggy” like a squishy aloe plant which got worse on the 45 minute ride home but the Nepentes seems strong. They are both in plastic pots in a sand, peat, perlite mix as purchased. They’re indoors under LEDs that I grow Sunflowers under lol I’m trying not to burn ‘em they were in a terrarium under a weaker lamp.

I am wondering about how to skip the dormancy period with the weaker VFT I’ve never been able to find that info.

People don't usually try to skip dormancy on weak plants. If you want to try, I believe you'll need a fairly strong grow light and keep the plant fed a lot to allow it to store energy to divide. That's kind of how I picture this one going down. Be sure to cut off any flower stalk as soon as you can safely get rid of it. Window will not be enough for that. Check out the flytrapcare.com link up top and read the articles. It'll help you get a lot of answers. Are you using a grow light on those plants?

People like to debate if plants can skip dormancy or not. The ones that do usually say they keep the plants fed or fertilized and run pretty long light cycles. I was thinking of trying this with a DCXL next season.

Honestly I'd do what Dean suggested and put the flytrap in the shade for a week and then introduce it to partial. Probably don't have enough time to really harden it off to full sun. Where you are, you'll probably need to do refrigerator dormancy(or someplace you can keep it above freezing) or have a grow setup and probably get comfortable with fertilization if you want to actually skip it. Water and light will help the plant perk up but it will need to be strong light. Putting it by the window is not going to work.

As for the Nep, also agree just put it by a window and let it do its thing. That particular one isn't too demanding

I’ve got enough light I can grow sunflowers indoors. But I do think ur right on the dormancy I found the top post on here about it and Im gonna try my basement that stays 60 all year. when does the VFT start to flower or is it fluid?