I thought my VFT was going dormant, since the nights here in LA started hitting the low 50's. Then we get a few weeks of warm weather pushing the 80's during the day. Now the crazy thing is putting up a flower stalk which could explain why the trap production was slowing down.
My other trap was very very sick. It had a smaller co-joint plant budding off the rhizome. That one turned black and died and starting getting fuzzy with mold/fungus. I tried treating the fuzz with H202 and ground cinnamon but the big plant kept getting worse looking. First the leaves would turn yellow around the edges and then the traps would turn black and eventually the whole leaf. This started happening to the new leaves too, with the trap bud kind of shrivelling up before even opening.
Figuring the plant was going to die no matter what I did I dug it up, carefully washed off the soil, peeled off the rotting parts of the rhizome/bulb (where the other plant was connected). What was left was still a nice white color and firm to the touch. I trimmed off most of the leaves, sprinkled it liberally with ground cinnamon, wrapped it in a moist paper towel, sealed in a baggy (dated) and threw it into the vegetable drawer of the fridge. It's doubtful if it will survive, much less miraculously recover in the spring.