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Before discovering this forum, I had ill treated my flytraps and sarracenia. I kept it in shade as the nursery which I bought it from told me to do so Due to improper care, my flytrap died. However, my sarracenia stayed the same and appeared to be unaffected. Well, the only difference now is that it grows faster with a few hours of direct sunlight since I discovered this forum. Can anyone tell me whether sarracenia are truly tougher than dionaea?

I guess so too.

Depends on the specific plant but I too have the sense that some sarcs, especially purps, are tough as nails!!

Oh yeah! Mine is a purpurea! Judging from the hood and coloration I have seen from this forum! Lucky me!

Sarrs are def easier imo.

A Venus Flytrap is like a wooden shield drown it in water and it breaks down but a sarracenia is more like a sheet of plastic... water do nothing

True story
P.S Purps are strong

You have a good comparison!

In my experience, healthy Sarrs are more hardy than healthy VFTs, but unhealthy VFTs are more likely to bounce back than unhealthy Sarrs.

Is it? Well, better take real goooood care of my sarra, treat it real nice. Hahahaha!

Cambrian wrote:Is it? Well, better take real goooood care of my sarra, treat it real nice. Hahahaha!

To be a bit more specific, I purchased a starter kit at Home Depot in June 2012. It consisted of a 3" seedling plastic container, peat, and dead LFS. It was curious because the peat came in 2 separate bags. The whole setup was essentially enough to start 1 plant. I ended up buying my own peat, sand, perlite, etc. and didn't use the Home Depot starter kit. So, it sat there unused for about 6 months.

I was cleaning out some of the shed where all my CP supplies are, and decided to open up the starter kit to use the 3" plastic container for a seedling. I was shocked when I realized one of the bags of peat had a Sarr and VFT rhizome! They were bone dry and dead looking (almost powdery). I planted them in the given peat, added some sand, and placed them in a humidity dome for a few months. Only the VFT came back, and is now actually outside in full sun.

Nice! Quite an experience you have. I feel so sorry about the poor sarr

.......But when sarracenia is treated bad they would become like dust in the air......

*cough forgot to continue my sentence
ya Amazing that the Venus Flytrap survived and the sarracenia didn't sad though but you did save one of them

But it's much easier to make a VFT unhealthy than a sarr...
That's why I like sarrs so much better...