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Post by mattmega4 on Jun 7, 2010 21:47:46 GMT
So I get weeds in my soil alot and i pick them out whenever i see them..i was about to pluck this when i saw it but when i looked closer i realized they are baby fly traps..BABY! i know my vfts are flowering..but they havent flowered YET..and they didnt flower last year..so how do i have new growth like this? (sorry its so small..i only had my cell phone camera so zooming meant less quality)
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Post by peterhewitt on Jun 7, 2010 21:50:48 GMT
Your plant is producing an offshoot. This is perfectly normal for flytraps of a certain size.
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Post by mattmega4 on Jun 7, 2010 21:57:03 GMT
what should i do with it.. separate it? leave it? kill it?
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Post by taz6122 on Jun 7, 2010 22:10:24 GMT
Leave it alone for the rest of the growing season. You can divide them in the winter after they die back or even better in the spring next year.
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Post by peterhewitt on Jun 7, 2010 22:13:29 GMT
depends on what you want, if you leave it, it will grow very quickly in to an adult plant and also probably produce offshoots. eventually you will have a small bushy clump. Or you can separate it once it has its own roots, which should be mid summer or so and you can increase your collection or trade these offshoots to friends.
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Post by mattmega4 on Jun 22, 2010 2:46:24 GMT
Thanks for the input..i think I'm going to leave it..and hopefully it along with the seeds from the flowers will grow and ill have a mess of fly traps
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Post by unstuckintime on Jun 28, 2010 13:51:57 GMT
...ill have a mess of fly traps oh yes you will! The ones you rescue from a store, especially, will divide and divide and divide like no one's business! I have two right now that I rescued as one plant each, and now there must be five or six growing points in each cluster!
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Post by peterhewitt on Jun 28, 2010 14:52:44 GMT
Plants freshly out of Tissue culture, will do this for quite some time, up to 2 years. It is vigor from the various hormones used in TC. commercial companies also select clones that offshoot vigorously.
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