3 Small Venus Flytraps - Fly Trap - (Dionaea Muscipula) Carnivorous Plant 3 Inch Pot

The plants arrived nicely packaged along with their planting medium, plant pot, plant description sheet, care sheet, potting diagram, and contact information regarding any additional questions that may come up. i have planted the plants with the included material, per instructions and diagram and 3 hours later the plants have their stems holding up the fly trap portion, to me this is a quick positive response to acclimate to their new environment. Great value for the kind of plants. their size were nice and easy to work with and arrange. appearance wise they look really strong and healthy with good roots and proper hydration and condition of their stems and trap portion. the bundle of shipped plants had an appropriate amount of moisture in their container for shipping.

Received six (!) lovely little flytrap plants in excellent condition. It's great that they are shipped bare-root, as it makes it easy to verify that bugs aren't traveling with them, and they stay in great shape even if the box is turned over or knocked around. Flytraps are always tricky to grow, so it's also very helpful that these came with detailed instructions. Also included were the sphagnum growing medium and an open-mesh-style pot, everything I needed except the four-inch bowl to keep underneath (for water). I started them on distilled water, and now I'm using the condensation water that drips from the outside of our air conditioner. It's been a couple of months since the plants arrived, and they're alive, growing, and catching the occasional fly in their sunny outdoor spot. Some outer traps turned black after planting, but that's normal senescence, especially after shipping, and all six plants have continued to grow more green, healthy traps. Two have even produced flower stalks, which I'll be cutting off (as the plants are rather small to be trying to support seed production), but I'm going to try planting the stalks, because I've read that a flower stalk can generate new plantlets at its base if I just stick it in the wet sphagnum moss. The plants were a hit with my son's first-grade class for show and tell, too.

I read a lot of reviews where other people had positive experiences with their plant but I can't say the same with mine. I ordered these FlyTraps along with Succulents and Cactus on Amazon, all at the same time. Everything arrived at my house on the same day as well from the different companies. The plants from the non-related companies arrive already potted and ready to go, the box was labelled live plant of the non-related companies and UPS kept the boxes up right. The plants from JoelsCarnivorousPlants arrived in plastic bags with damp paper towels in the plastic bags along with the plants without any indication that I could see on the box indicating it was a live plant, could be because it was just in a plastic bag. I quickly took them out and followed the instructions to pot them. I had my distilled water ready to go like the instructions said. I waited a few days and only a few heads of the plant died which I assumed was a possibility was it traveled to sunny Arizona. After a few more days the other heads of my plant opened up ready for their yummy live meal. Flies were instantly attracted to them and started crawling all over them but never in the mouths of my plants. After a few more days of patiences eventually flies went in the little mouths and it was amazing to watch the mouths close up to eat their meal. More than 4 days passed and the mouths of the plants stayed closed. I researched online and saw that it did take days for the plants to devour their meals so I waited patiently for the plants to open back up. But instead of opening up they died. Each one that ate a fly died within days of eating. I tried clipped off the blacked heads as they appeared but the plant just kept dying until it was all gone. I'm honestly not sure what caused it to die the moment it ate the flies but for me the plant did not personally work out. Others might have different luck. It could be the flies in my state, it could be that it was going to die within a few weeks of showing up anyway because of the delivery, I honestly don't know. Another thing to note was that the moss and plants had a horrific stench which might have been why so many flies were attracted to the plant. I didn't know where to keep the plant as the smell was too much to keep in my bedroom, bathroom, or even kitchen. An awful smell could be something typical that comes along with these plants so be warned it is a possibility.

if you are considering buying a venus flytrap, JoelsCarnivorousPlants is the ONLY seller you should consider! my plant from joelscarnivorousplants arrived quickly and was very carefully packed - the traps are wrapped in a moist paper towel and placed in a plastic bag, then surrounded with the dry moss you will use to plant them, and potected in the net pot that everything will go in. the plants were a healthy shade of green and in perfect, undamaged condition. i received about 5 individual plants, rather than the advertised 3. in addition, the seller provides very detailed instructions for potting and caring for your plant. i did find the potting process complicated, but i also felt confident that my plant was going to have its best chance as a result. one caveat: the instructions state not to unpack your plant and expose to light until you have distilled, or reverse osmosis purified water, with no additives or dissolved solids, on hand to use in the potting process (soaking the moss, filling a bowl for the plant to sit in, etc). in my area, most stores do not carry distilled water and i went into 7 different stores over the course of the week without finding it, which meant my plant was in the plastic bag in the shipping box for over a week. when i finally had the right water, some of the traps had turned black and died, but most still looked good and now the plant is thriving. i ordered a venus flytrap from another seller, and it arrived poorly packed - the plant was badly damaged, with many of the traps crushed or already black and dead. it arrived in much worse shape than joel's plant was after being in a dark box for almost two weeks! in addition to being poorly packed/shipped, the plant from the other seller was in a terracotta pot and what most websites say is the wrong growing media.