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This year's experiment

  • #21
d'oh... Sorry if I sounded a bit abrupt there!
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But if it does sprout a plantlet, the chances of the plantlet surviving are slim, form what i've heard... baby flytraps that formed on the flower stalk rarely grow when you plant them in soil...

"behavior box" I remember someone saying that last year... Did i see you at a BACPS meeting last year, with a pot with a baby VFT growing on the flower stalk?
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The flower stalk could possibly work in vitro
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  • #22
UPDATE - 6/3/04

Okay, I trashed the first stalk, because Spec, even though he has some serious party-pooping issues, was right, and the stalk rotted and never rooted, because it retained no petiole. So then I attained two fresh stalks from two different plants. To remove them, I gently plucked them out of the center of the plant, the rhizomes still intact and healthy, instead of snapping them off without the rhizome like I did before. I put the two about an inch apart in the same pot, and I'm growing them for my mom, because I feel the great need to pay her back for the fact that her two VFTs, which I have been keeping, recently died. I have high hoped these will in fact root. I shall keep you posted!!
 
  • #23
I've tried this twice with cut flower stalks, and both just rotted. So, perhaps you'll get a different outcome with the plucked flower stalk =)
 
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