RE: Updates: First Pot for Baby Venus and Binata
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Define "everyone" we're everywhere XD
Can they self propagate? I would feel pretty awful about chopping one of their bits too x_x
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Hi "everywhere" it is good to see you again. Yes, some carnivorous plants form a new plant when the older branches touch the moss. The Sundews (the ones with the sticky technicals) do it all the time. Here is a Drosera Spatulata - the new plants are free because the old ones touched the moss around it.
... and another expample where an old leaf clearly wilted into the moss, and a plant just came up weeks later.
For the above type of plants, you can chop off the leaves and they will propagate. The Pitchers and Venus plants must be pulled from the core of the bulb underground, and when you do it right, the bottom of the stem looks like the white end of a stick of celery. That is the only way to propagate them.
After reading this I of course had to go and look up how these things reproduce naturally and then ended up with mental images of setting fire to the pots to help Venus flytraps seed/germinate x_x
I have never looked up how to germinate them. I have jars and jars of seeds but I have never seen them grow. I would be happy to ship you some so you can try your hand at it.
I may have to try to remember to take you up on that down the line ^_^ currently trying to do some soil work but it's a glacial process (mostly in the finding time to do it).