Venus Flytrap 'B52' Carnivorous Plant, Dionaea muscipula, Live Arrival, Adult Plant, 3" Pot - Predatory Plants

They say a picture is worth a thousand words so I posted 4 to help you decide. The plant in the green bowl in the square container is the flytrap that I bought from this seller (Predatory Plants). The pitiful looking flytraps in the orange and blue bowls are ones that I purchased online (at Pet Fly Trap) for close to the same price possibly more. The picture of the single flytrap in the small round pot is the same one that is in the blue bowl in the other picture close to about a month earlier. As you can see it arrived very small with a few dead parts. I was pleasantly surprised with the B-52 venus flytrap that I received from this seller on here (Predatory Plants) the heads on the flytraps were very large, robust, and healthy with tons of colorful traps/heads. The plant root ball was damp and carefully hand wrapped and it came with more than a generous amount of quality planting media along with a nice sized square pot (and not the crappy round kind that you get from some sellers) . The instructions that came with the plants were detailed, clear, and understandable. There is even a referenced video that you can check out if you get stuck. I will definitely keep them as my 1st go to for future carnivorous plant purchases. Update 8/12/2020 Original flytrap that I bought is still very much alive and doing extremely well even in the Texas heat and new growth has even appeared. I was so impressed that I ordered 2 more one more for myself and one for some friends. I just keep the distilled water in the bowls constantly not letting the plants dry out and both plants seem to be thriving. Still extremely happy with purchases.

I got this for my son since his last one died on us. This one was much bigger and healthier then the other supplier we used. In one month it outgrew the little container and we needed to replant. After replanting it is doing well and grew even more wide. Has some small heads and huge heads. It ate a few house flies and other then that we feed it the gel type food, which seems to help too. It spit out a spider without digesting it, so I guess he hates those, but anything else it caught, or we fed him he accepted. Overall good flytrap. Arrived healthy and with good instruction. Lots of extra planting material if you need to replant, we did supply a little carnivorous plant soil on the bottom if the bigger pot so he didn't sit so low. But they packed it in an ample amount of moss.

The listing even says it comes in a 3" pot, but that was not the case. It showed up wrapped in plastic and peet moss, not planted in a pot, and "sleeping" or dormant. The instructions are minimal and it says you have to plant it (no clear instructions as to how best to plant it, the soil to use, etc) and to trim the black pieces off. Well, half of it was black. So we planted it in fresh soil in a pot. I read online they likes drainage and sandy soil, to keep it wet and they are ok with direct sun. We live in Florida so I made sure it didn't get the hottest part of the sun, though. The thing just continued to wilt and die, it never "woke" up or revived. That was a waste of money. I missed the return window by a couple of days because I was trying to see if it would revive.

I knew that Venus fly trap plants had a reputation of being tricky to grow. It's a reputation that's well deserved. But don't let that discourage you from at least trying to grow this really interesting plant. The instructions that come with your plant are less than great. Do a bit of research on the internet to get a better understanding. I always thought Venus fly traps were larger, but my pictures show that they are actually a rather small plant. My plant arrived semi-dormant. This is 100% a normal growing cycle for the species. In fact, it must be accommodated in growing. Adequate sunlight is absolutely essential when growing this plant. I would say that most indoor environments, even in windows, will not provide adequate sunlight. I am using a mini LED plant light for supplemental lighting. Readily available here on Amazon. So if you're looking for an easy to grow houseplant, this may not be for you. But if you like learning interesting things and have a geeky streak like me, I think you'll get a lot of fun and enjoyment.

I’ve had this plant for 10 months and it went through dormancy and is doing well. When I got it, the traps were about half an inch, and now they are about one whole inch and are catching flies.

This is my second time ordering this plant from this seller. The first time, I received a healthy and beautiful plant which thrived for about a year. Then the whole thing started turning black. I suspected it was going through dormancy phase but it's not the right season for that. I decided to get a new plant to replace the first one and received a really weak and sick looking plant. It already looks like it's dying and i've only had it for about a week. Very different from the plant I bought last year. Lots of black, blackening leaves and all the traps were closed. The leaves were not really green either, it was pale looking. I'm giving up on venus fly plants now.

This came really quickly, and the plant was very vibrant and healthy. We have had it for a few weeks, and it is thriving. It has been eating well and we have not had to trim off too many dead traps. I think this one only had one so far. But is is really doing well and has already grown quite a bit. I love it! My son is obsessed with it. I am so happy that this came in such good health. It was actually in better health than the one we purchased at a brick and mortar store. LOVE IT!

I bought this on a whim a few years ago. I always wanted a venus flytrap, and I'm a big fan of BIG organisms. So when I saw that this variety of venus flytrap had the biggest traps, I was like "okay, I'm in." Venus flytraps are native to my state, so they have a soft spot in my heart just for them. I don't remember what condition she was in when I got her, but I don't remember being concerned or disappointed at all. Plenty of substrate (moss) was included in the box as packaging, which I thought was a nice way to do it. I quickly got her into a small cheap pot with the moss and distilled water she needed. There are plenty of tutorials and resources on how to grow venus flytraps and other carnivorous plants, and I think the paper instructions included with the plant were thorough enough to get me started but not overwhelming. It's exciting to watch her grow. Every time she gets a tiny new leaf/trap, it gets talked about in my house. I've never watched her catch a bug, but it is also fun to see a trap open back up after she has caught something. Kind of gross, but cool. The pictures I included with this review are from various points in her life so far. She did really, really well last summer on the deck of my last home where she got lots of sun. I've never seen her get the brilliant red traps the variety is depicted as having, but that's probably just something I'm doing wrong. I was worried that I lost her over the winter because she was losing leaves one by one and there were a lot of little bugs in the substrate. I think they're just eating the moss and maybe other dead foliage, but I'm not 100% sure. In late summer last year she was being terrorized by cockroaches eating her leaves/traps but thankfully my new home doesn't have billions of cockroaches outside just waiting to feast upon tender venus flytrap flesh. She's starting to make a comeback now as the weather is warming up, hoping to see her in full glory soon.