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Venus Flytrap Flowering: Self-Pollination and Seed Collection

A Florida grower had three pots of Venus flytraps, one with ~15 flower buds, and asked how to get seeds.

No Intervention Needed

Jacob Farin said flytraps self-pollinate readily. Just let nature take its course; seeds will form. He's always had seeds from his personal collection without intervention.

Resources

Video podcasts: Cobra Plant.

Carnivorous Plants: Encouraging Phalaenopsis Rebloom: Spike Pruning and Light; Orchid Flower Spike After Bloom: Cut or Keep Based on Type; Should You Let Venus Flytraps Flower? Expert Guidelines for Pollination; Feeding Venus Flytrap Seedlings: Timing, Methods, and Fertilizer Caution; Heliamphora Flowering: What to Expect; Managing Excessive Flowering in Drosera spatulata Under Long Photoperiods; Drosera regia Flowering: Cut or Keep? Depends on Light; Late-Season Flowering in Sarracenia flava; To Cut or Not to Cut: Venus Flytrap Flower Stalks; Passion Flower Bud Drop: Light and Fertilizer Balance

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