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Venus Flytrap Flowers
After repotting my Venus flytraps, I allowed one of the plants to complete its flowering cycle.
The flower stalk continued growing slowly. The following pic was taken 27 days after repotting.
The flower stalk almost one month after repotting
The flower stalk reached a length of over 20cm before the buds looked like they were ready to open.
The buds getting ready to open
If you look carefully under the top right bud, you can see a mealybug hiding. I only noticed this when I was editing the pics, otherwise it would be no more...
The first flower
The first flower opened on my birthday, one month of repotting. What was interesting, I had watered the plants at around 0800, and then around 0930 Pat told me that a flower had opened. It must have been waiting to warm up from the sun.
More buds open
Many different insects visited the flowers (but not the traps!) so there was pollination taking place. What was interesting, I don't recall seeing any bees around the flowers.
A view of the flower stalk
The first flowers starting to fade away
The first flowers were starting to fade away, seven days after the first one opened. The petals were rolling up, the stamens were disappearing and the seed pods were starting to grow.
The following pic was taken 20 days after the first flower had opened - the last flower was fading away and the seed pods were starting to develop.
The last flowers fading away
The seeds starting to form
The first seeds were ready to harvest just over one month after the first flower opened. I did not harvest any, but did cut off the flower stalk shortly after this picture was taken. The plant did take quite a bit of strain in producing these flowers. It has taken almost a month to recover. At this stage, I will keep cutting off flower buds.
What I really enjoyed about these taking these flower pics was that I could do some proper macro photography again.
(18 November 2025)
