Letting my flytrap florae

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Ive had this Flytrap for 3 years I think now, it lives outside and decimates the winged invertibrates of my garden, last year I had an infestation of these bees and everytime I looked I could find dead bees in it's leaves.

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This year I wanted some seed pods so I allowed it to flower, it has been pretty interesting watching the stem grow and the flowers pop but it clearly has sucked a lot of energy out of the plant.


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It's Kev

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I had some VFT’s years ago, but never let them flower.
anyways, my logic says to make sure the plant has extra energy, so I would make sure most of the leaves have a bug to munch on during that time
 

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I thought that I wanted a bunch of seeds from this plant so I decided to let it flower so that I can harvest the seed pods afterwards. I think so far it's a success.
 

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I also cut the flowers off in the past.
They reproduce asexually when they're in good health. After a year in the mini-bog, every single one produced 1-4 suckers in my backyard after winter. Around june they were big enough to tear them off.
 

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If you ever try to grow these from seeds be prepared for a long slog. The seedlings are truly microscopic... after one year they were still smaller than a dime in size. They were cool-looking micro VFT's... but they were tiny.
 
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