Venus Flytrap Flowering and Seed Collection: Self-Pollination and Harvest Timing

A grower's flytrap produced a flower stalk with 4 flowers. The expert confirms flytraps can self-pollinate; gently shaking the scape or brushing pollen onto the stigma (central protruding part) increases seed set. Even without intervention, some seeds may form.

Seed Harvest

• Wait 1+ month after flowers die.
• Ovaries swell, dry, turn black, split open.
• Clip scape, shake/crush over white paper to collect tiny, pear-shaped black seeds.
• Sow immediately on moist flytrap mix; germination in 2–6 weeks.

Seeds are very small – a magnifier helps. Maximum ~12 seeds per flower; often fewer.