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My VFT recently started growing very long and thin petioles. The petioles develop very quickly and have large traps on them. Is this a cause of poor lighting? I think I may have a bad bulb (the color is 'off' on one of the bulbs). I'll try to post a pic as soon as I can.
Sorry if I sounded kind of harsh.
I hope this will clarify a bit why this thread caught my attention.
A picture would be good. Problem with D. muscipula is that culture plays a huge role in the way a plant can look. Comparing a plant in your possesion to a picture on the web is at best just a guess. You can not know how the plant was grown in the picture. Temperature, light level, season, age of the plant, age of the traps pictured etc. The same goes for a plant recently purchased. You can not know how it was cared for. Any time someone points out a picture on a web and says this is what my plant looks like you can usually find additional pictures which contradict the identification. Most of the time I don't make that big a deal out of it since only a few VFT are formally described and named and the rest are just a huge hodgepodge of who knows exactly what. Royal Red however is one of the few. It was produced in Australia and is patented there. It may be reproduced by TC/vegetative propgation only. I am sure there are vft around that might look a bit similar but to just label a plant like this with the Royal Red name would be a disservice.
Tony
Might want to resize your photos.. helps us poor folks stuck on dialup.
Besides that looks like the new leaves have good color. I would say that it's just making normal Summer shaped leaves.
Good example here Hellz.. the petioles on the new leaves are long thin and nearly solid red while the traps are showing red with the green lip around the teeth. And this is a Green Dragon..
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