Flowering Fly Trap Question

[xerogold]

I've had a Venus Fly Trap for a month now, and thanks to the FAQ that lead me to this site, it's doing very well. It is in a bowled flower vase with a peice of plate glass over top and a flouresant natural daylight desklamp all too itself. For a month to have passed, this lamp must be strong enough, and I choose the glass vase so lots of light could get in with really raising the tempurature. The vase holds humidity great.

Last weekend, I was busy for two days, and didn't check on it, and it managed to make a 6 inch flower stalk, with is now almost 9 inches and still climbing. I've let the flower stalk come out the vent slit at the top of the vase, but will being out of the vase be any potential issue? I found a lot of information on the flower for pollenating and that I shouldn't have let it make a flower, but it did, and I'm gonna try to see it to the end now.

I've greatly enjoyed it for the pass month, so if anyone knows if the flowers need the same humidity level as the plant, it would be great.

[swenger]

I doubt that the flower stalk extending outside the terrarium would damage it. The only way I could even see that being an issue is if your home has an extremely low level of humidity (well below 30%).

Speaking of which, what is the humidity like where you live? If it doesn't usually get much lower than 30%, you really don't have to worry about a terrarium for Dionaea--they are usually much more trouble than they are worth, if that is the case. These plants can usually adjust just fine to lower levels of humidity.

Here is to hoping your plant pulls through after blooming!