How to pollinate Venus flytrap flowers
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.พ. 2025
- Matt talks through the anatomy of a Venus flytrap flower and explains how to successfully pollinate Venus flytraps for seed production.
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You got a like from me, mine flowered couldn't find no good videos explaining until now🙂
I would like to buy seed they are hard to find in the Netherlands
Good to see your site/store making some videos. With all the different groups of people out there who love VFTs and buying from your store, we are certainly happy to see videos from FlyTrap Store as well!
3:17 I would put the polen onto a different plant and not the same the polen came. from
That's totally acceptable too and usually results in a better seed set. But Venus flytraps are self-fertile and, when self-pollinated, the offspring have a better chance of looking like the parent plant. So if there is a particular trait that is trying to be preserved, self-pollination is a good way to go.
@@MattMillerFlytrapStore shouldnt it work aswell if you use lets say 2 different B52 Plants ?
@@DJJumpdancer Unfortunately, no. B52 is a particular selection of Venus flytrap and any B52 will have the same exact genetic makeup as another B52 so pollinating two separate B52s would be no different than self-pollinating the plant.
@@MattMillerFlytrapStore but it would work would it ?
@@DJJumpdancer Yes, as I mentioned in the first reply, Venus flytraps are self-fertile so you can simply take the pollen off the anthers and pollinate the stigma on the same flower. Doing cross-pollination from two genetically distinct Venus flytraps usually results in a better seed set but they will self-pollinate just fine.
So when they do have seed just go ahead and plant in like a 2 inch pot all the seeds or so many? Thank you mike.
Hi Mike - when you get seed I'd recommend sowing it immediately and using a pot that is at least 3 to 4 inches deep so the soil moisture level stays a bit more stable.
They can be sowed pretty densely but if you spread them out a bit they can grow longer before needing to be separated and repotted.
Excellent info, thanks!
Great video! OK, not great... Focus problems, volume problems... I don't really care, though. The content was great and really interesting!
Like so many others I had a Venus fly trap when i was a kid. So when I saw them for sale at our local Aldi a month or two ago I decided I'd buy one and see what happened.
Well, it flowered, at least. I read on your page that they're self-pollinating but I don't know if mine did or not.
I just left it in the tiny little mini-terrarium it came in and I trickle some water in every day or so so that the soil (which actually seems to be peat) stays damp and the humidity in the 'pot' stays pretty high. I'm in Ohio and it's dry as a desert stone here in the winter. So far it's definitely getting rather larger.
I don't think I can watch any more of your videos, though... I already have too many hobbies and interests!!! LOL! Oh, dear... You have a store... Must. Not... Look!
Thanks for the feedback.
Regarding self-pollinating Venus flytraps - they do not naturally self-pollinate themselves. They are self-fertile but need a pollinator (or a human hand) to do the job for them.
If you want to keep your Venus flytrap healthy in the long-term, I'd highly recommend repotting it out of the mini-terrarium it was shipped in and into a larger pot with better air movement.
Good growing!
That's a vid I've been waiting for. I'm curious about plants that produce double or twin flower stalks.. Is that normal? I have several varieties of VFT that have double or twin flower stalks
Thanks! Yes, it is entirely normal for flytraps to send up 2 or even 3 or 4 flower stalks in a year. The vast majority of flytraps will only send up one, but some cultivars always send up two or more and quite a few will do it from time to time.
is that terracotta pot?
Yeah I keep seeing videos of VFT that appear to be in terracotta but they say not to put them in those types of pots because it will kill them, so I'm confused.
@@tlwest21 same here. i hope we get a reply lets wait :)
It's probably resin molded to look like fancy terracota pots, or terracotta pots with a plastic pot inside of it, and the flytraps are actually planted in the plastic.
@@tlwest21 its probably a plastic pot that is supposed to look like a terracotta
@@RommelSantiago no theyre not that stupid to plant their plants in terracotta pots lol these people are one of the biggest if not the biggest venus flytrap seller on the us and they have a lot of experience
Absolutely ZERO pollen came off on my brush. Flowers died. I found a different video with people with a much clearer step-by-step guide that I'm going to try next. This video didn't help whatsoever.
We've been pollinating Venus flytraps for 12 or so years and always have a good seed set. Sometimes flowers don't produce pollen but there's not much you can do about that other than try a different flower. And often times flowers won't successfully go to seed if the plant isn't well cared for. However, the mechanism for pollination is non-negotiable, meaning the pollen has to get on the receptive stigma as shown in the video. Nothing else will work, so I'd be interested in seeing the other video and trying to understand why you found it more helpful. I suppose there are different tools that could be used that might make it easier but the goal is gonna be the same no matter what - get that pollen on the stigma when it is receptive!
Can you share the link to the other video?