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Lazily placed some flower stalks in a pot with peat/perlite and covered the pot in Saran Wrap. Easy way to propagate flytraps.

I've been thinking about doing this. Did you stick them into the peat/perlite so that they stick out vertically like a flag pole? Or did you lay them flag on the peat/perlite like a fallen tree?

jgsimmerman wrote: ↑Thu Dec 12, 2024 8:15 pm Did you stick them into the peat/perlite so that they stick out vertically like a flag pole? Or did you lay them flag on the peat/perlite like a fallen tree?

Although I have not tried VFT's my Binata var multifida's do great both ways.
I know root cuttings (as I was taught by @Panman) are best lying down with just a smidge of media to cover.

jgsimmerman wrote: ↑Thu Dec 12, 2024 8:15 pm I've been thinking about doing this. Did you stick them into the peat/perlite so that they stick out vertically like a flag pole? Or did you lay them flag on the peat/perlite like a fallen tree?

I layed them flat like a fallen tree.

I've also propagated VFTs this way – I cut them about 1.5" long and lay the flower stalks flat on LFS and they sprout along the sides. I've tried it in peat/sand mixes and poked vertically into the medium and gotten nothing. I haven't usually covered them with plastic but I think that would help. It does work, but... the plants I've gotten have been very slow growing and I think I might have better luck not letting them flower and having the parent plant multiply on its own.

Flower stalk cuttings also works with many Drosera species. For me it works better if I float them in RO water in a small glass jar with a lid (some float, some don't but it doesn't seem to matter). This method hasn't worked for me with VFTs but the sundews I've done it with are: filiformis, x californica, rotundifolia, capillaris (although those produce so much seed that cuttings are almost unnecessary), x bockowskii, x obovata, and 'Marston Dragon.' Once I have a plant or several growing along the stem, I transfer them to some LFS.

*edited to strike rotundifolia, capillaris, and obovata – I remembered those were leaf cuttings and not flower stalks